Rice or UT Austin in Houston
Per capita and ease of recruiting?
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Rice. Pretty much guaranteed offer with good shot at multiple.
Rice student here - Rice will be better for Houston recruiting strictly in terms of placement per capita and ease of recruiting since there are less students pursuing IB compared to UT and you can take the metro downtown for coffee chats.
Internal competition at Rice is increasing as its undergraduate business major grows, but you should get an offer if you put in the work. Pretty much every bank comes to campus and alumni are very responsive.
That being said, UT places exceptionally well in Houston also. If you are at all interested in New York, UT will give you much better odds, especially if you are non-diversity.
+1 to this. Rice is a no brainer if you're set on Houston given the location - but if you want NY, UT Austin will do better there.
nope as a rice alum. go to ut. the curriculum will prepare you much better and you'll place lights out compared to rice
ut places even into nyc buyside out of undergrad. its such a shame our school is so shit
and also if you dont land ib, corporate banking and commercial banking and other financial services are dominated by ut/state school grads
also a&m and uh and txst have feeder commercial banking programs that crowd out rice grads since they have to fill those with the other grads to maintain relationships
so yea as a rice person the deck is stacked heavily against you
Go to UT way more fun
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