Full-Time MBA Program

July 16, 2018

Welcome to Houston: The City with No Limits

Welcome to Houston! Rice University and the Jones Graduate School of Business are so proud to be part of the Houston Community. Houston is truly remarkable in its makeup of people and cultures (there is no ethnic majority), great cost of living, and excellent food options! We know that many of you will be moving to Houston in the next few weeks and we wanted to share a bit about what makes Houston such an amazing place to live.

We hope that over the next two years, you will have many opportunites to discover what makes Houston special and that it will feel like home. Don't be afraid to ask your classmates who already call Houston home why they couldn't imagine living anywhere else!

For more information about Houston you can visit the following places:
Greater Houston Partnership
VisitHouston
Houston Museum District
Lonely Planet
Houston Restaurant Week

The Honor Code

The Honor Code is a tradition at Rice University and defines the student experience at the Jones Graduate School of Business.

Rice Facts

Rice Stadium

Rice Stadium opened in 1950, with a capacity of 70,000 seats. Since then, it has served as the site for some truly remarkable moments in history. Rice acted as a temporary intermediary in the transfer of land between Humble Oil and Refining Company and NASA for the creation of NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center (now called Johnson Space Center) in 1962. President John F. Kennedy then made a speech at Rice Stadium reiterating that the United States intended to reach the moon before the end of the decade of the 1960s, and "to become the world's leading space-faring nation". The relationship of NASA with Rice University and the city of Houston has remained strong to the present day.

A little over a decade afterward, the stadium hosted Super Bowl VIII in 1974. This happened to be the first time that the Super Bowl site was not the site of a NFL franchise. This was also the first Super Bowl not to be held in either the Los Angeles, Miami, or New Orleans areas.

Meet the SPO

Michelle Kaltenbach, Associate Director, Student Development

I was born in Germany, the daughter of a military man and sweet Korean lady. We moved when I was 3 to El Paso, Texas, (military base placement) which is where I learned to adapt to hot weather for 11 years before facing the brutal winters of the mid-west. I attended Ball State University for undergrad and Bowling Green State University for grad school where I experienced freezing winters and decided that as soon as I could, I would move back down south. My hobbies include finding new brunch spots in Houston, eating crawfish every weekend during crawfish season, creating terrariums, traveling somewhere new each year, and taking my pup Ellie to the dog park. MORE...

What should I be doing now?

Please head over to Canvas and see what pre-work you have for your courses. You have a significant amount of reading for Strategy, please start now. It is important that you read and have a good understanding the cases that you are assigned.

You should be able to see your Canvas sites within 24 hours of course registration so long as the professor has published the site. However, courses do not always automatically appear on your Dashboard when you log in. Click on the Courses tab along the left side of Canvas, then click on the All Courses link. From this page, you can click on the star next to a site for it to appear on the Dashboard or unclick on the star to remove a site from the Dashboard.

You should still be working your way through the MBA Quantitative Toolkit,your Onboarding Checklist, and the Career Development Course. Please complete these assignments ASAP.

We will continue to reach out to you by email and by phone to collect past due assignments. The deadlines of these assignments are very important because the assignments give us the information that we need to be fully prepared for you to start the program in a few weeks. Please make sure that you are keeping up with deadlines and turning things in on time.

Did you know...

that you have 24/7 access to McNair Hall?

You have 24/7 access to McNair Hall with your Student ID card. While McNair hall has regular business hours, during off hours you can swipe into McNair Hall with your Student ID. Regular Business Hours are:

Monday - Saturday: 6:00am-10:00pm
Sunday: 12:00pm -6:30pm

Also, if you happen to be working late into the night, after midnight, the only exit that remains open is entrace 8 (near the baseball stadium and police department). All other campus exits are blocked.

Summer Social

July 19th
4:00pm - 6:00pm
Rice Univeristy, Moody Center for the Arts

Please join us for the Class of 2020 Full-Time MBA Summer Social. It will be a great time to meet your classmates, staff, and faculty that you are going to be spending your time with over the next two years!

RSVP HERE