ADMISSIONS
INFORMATION

Earn Your Rice MBA Online
in as Few as 24 Months

Show Us Why You’re Rice-Ready

Ranked in the top 10 online MBA programs by Poets & Quants, The Princeton Review, and Fortune;¹ MBA@Rice offers the same rigorous curriculum, best-in-class faculty and entrepreneurial spirit as its on-campus equivalent—and we hold our online MBA applicants to the same type of high admissions standards as our on-campus applicants.

We offer class start dates four times per year: January, April, July and October.

Early Priority Deadline	Priority Deadline	Final Application Deadline	Classes Start
April 15, 2022	May 13, 2022	June 3, 2022	July 4, 2022
July 15, 2022	August 12, 2022	September 2, 2022	October 3, 2022

Admissions Overview

To apply to MBA@Rice, you must have a bachelor’s degree or equivalent from an accredited college or university.

We accept applications on a rolling basis and evaluate your candidacy as a package—i.e., based on your essays, virtual interview, leadership roles, community involvement, career progression and test scores as a whole.

The current application fee of $200 is being waived for all applicants.

TEST SCORE REQUIREMENTS

GMAT OR GRE

GMAT or GRE scores from the last five years are required to apply. Applications may be reviewed with unofficial scores, but if you are accepted into the program, your official scores must be submitted by the time you start classes.

GMAT or GRE waivers are available for select applicants. To be considered for a GMAT or GRE waiver, you must have one of the following:

seven or more years of full-time work experience
a graduate degree in a quantitative field
a terminal degree (e.g., M.D., J.D., Ph.D.)
a quantitatively oriented professional certification
other standardized test scores demonstrating comparable quantitative ability

We also accept SAT and ACT scores in lieu of the GMAT or GRE.

EXECUTIVE ASSESSMENT

If you do not believe you qualify for a GMAT/GRE waiver or are still debating which test to take, we strongly encourage you to take the Executive Assessment when applying for our program.