Rice University Placements: Job Opportunities & Placement rate, Packages

MBA at Rice University is a highly ranked course which gains recognition from Princeton for being #1 in offering Graduate Entrepreneurship Program, while US News ranks MBA at Rice at #26 for the Best Graduate Business School. Undoubtedly, with higher rankings and recognition, Rice MBA graduates get placement offers before graduating or within 3 months of graduation.

As per MBA’ 21 at Rice, placement rate was recorded at 92% with the highest salary of USD 170,000 annually. The passing out batch set a benchmark for other schools at Rice, with the highest average salary of USD 131,384 and median salary of USD 135,000.

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Rice University MBA’ 21 Placement Highlights

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Rice MBA Class Profile - 2021

The total class strength was 118, with students having an average age of 28. The average GMAT score of the students enrolled was 706 while the average work experience was 5.3 years. 69% of the students were male and 31% were women.

Rice MBA Employment Report 2021

The following were recorded for MBA class of 2020 placements at Rice University:

• 97% offers were made within 3 months of post-graduating.
• 92% acceptances recorded within 3 months after post-graduation.
• 100% of seeking international students accepted an offer within 3 months of their post-graduation.
• Average base salary of USD 131,384 was the highest recorded salary.

• Median base salary was recorded at USD 135,000.
• 78% of graduates accepted job offers from the Rice Business community.

Rice MBA' 2021 Salary

The salary insights can be understood in terms of signing bonus and the base salary. The following section throws more light.

Signing Bonus Amount

The following table summarises the mean, median and high salaries depending upon the work type that MBA’ 21 got after placements:

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MBA’ 21 Base Salary - Rice University

As high as USD 170,000 was recorded for MBA students working with a permanent authorization after graduating from Rice University. The lowest salary was recorded for non-permanent authorisation workers with USD 117,000 approx. The graph below throws more light on the base salary for both permanent and non-permanent authorisation students of Rice MBA’ 21:

Top Employers for Rice MBA’ 21

Over 50+ employers hired MBA’ 21 students of Rice University. The following table shows some of the top employers for the passing out year of 2021:

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Rice MBA' 21 Internship

All students, that is 100% of the MBA class of 2021 at Rice University got an internship. Technology was the top industry where 25.6% of students found an internship, the highest since 2017. The average monthly compensation also increased by 34% in comparison to 2020.

Rice MBA’21 Internship Compensation

Students under permanent work authorization were earning USD 8,000 and above while non-permanent work authorization students earned USD 7,800. In terms of monthly compensation, industry wise, the following table gives more details:

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Rice MBA’ 21 Industry Wise Hiring

Since Technology was the highest recruiting sector for internships, this industry offered internships to 41 students. This was followed by financial services hiring 38 students and the lowest hires were made by two industries - transportation and logistics & retail, where only 1 student was allowed to intern. Look at the following graph for more information:

Percentage of Hires Geographically

The following stats were recorded for students of MBA’ 21 who were offered to intern with top employers across the following geographic locations, within USA:

• Southwest: 67.91%
• West: 12.56%

• Northeast: 10.11%
• Midwest: 4.42%
• Mid - Atlantic: 1.86%
• South: 1.28%

Source of Internships

As per the data, MBA’ 21 internships were offered to students through various types of sources, some of them were identified and have been tabulated below for reference:

Top Employers for Rice MBA’ 21 Internships

The following employers hired students of MBA class of 2021 of Rice University for an internships:

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