Rice rises to top 50
London's Times Higher Education magazine's newly released university rankings place Rice among the top 50 universities in the world, a marked increase from last year's rank at 100th place. Rice is the only university in Texas to appear on the Times Higher Education's list of top 200 schools worldwide, and is ranked 29th among the 81 universities on the list from the United States and Canada. "The top 200 universities in the world represent only a tiny fraction of world higher education and any institution that makes it into this table is truly world-class," Ann Mroz, editor of Times Higher Education, said. "Being ranked 47 in the world's top 200 is an impressive achievement."