Master's · Houston, Texas
Is Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods at Rice University worth it?
High confidence High confidence: 100+ graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Pays back fast: graduates typically recover the cost in about 1 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $178,317
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- Not enough graduates to report
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $61,500
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $65k (likely $65k – $65k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $122k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in TX
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 1 years (likely 0.8–1.1)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $992k (likely $890k – $1.10M)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $2.31M (likely $2.03M – $2.58M)
- Today's dollars
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Scorecard reports no net price for graduate programs; cost is based on what graduates typically borrowed.
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- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Bachelor's)$182,443
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Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods at other schools in Texas
- Texas A&M University-College Station$183,813
- Southern Methodist University$140,799
- The University of Texas at Austin$128,909
- The University of Texas at San Antonio$128,404
- The University of Texas at Dallas$124,603
- East Texas A&M University$120,549
- University of North Texas$91,548
- University of Dallas$89,232
- University of Houston$78,473
- Texas Christian University$76,440