21st century environmental challenges are multifaceted and complex, requiring collaboration and expertise across many skill sets. Whether through inventing materials that facilitate the energy transition, designing sustainable and resilient cities or building just and equitable social models, Rice undergraduates apply their education to confront interwoven societal and environmental problems in a fast-changing world.

Rice students build depth of expertise in their major — whether in engineering, humanities, natural sciences or social sciences — while building breadth to tackle complex problems through coursework and real-world problem solving. Through partnership with local, national and international collaborators, we educate students in working with many stakeholders to develop real, workable solutions to this century's sustainability challenges.