Corporate Affiliates Program, Computer Science
A Productive Partnership
The combined forces of academia and industry constitute a powerful agent for change – change that can lead to innovation, greater efficiency, and reduced costs. Each entity has strengths and weaknesses that when combined, create a well-balanced partnership. Industry has funds for research; academia has resources to conduct research. Industry has technological questions that need answers; academia provides those answers via unencumbered research.
Separately, academia and industry can each build great inroads. But together, academia and industry can construct super highways.
Member Benefits
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- Faculty liaison assigned to your company
- Invitation to annual Corporate Affiliates meeting for presentations on latest research and meetings with faculty and students
- Faculty visit to your facility to discuss research projects, or conduct a seminar
- Receive technical reports on latest research
- Access to on-line student resumé bank
- Access to students for summer internships
- Gain first-hand knowledge of current research with visits to the Rice campus
- Bring non-proprietary technical problems to faculty for research and resolution
Why Rice
Rice University is consistently ranked one of America’s best teaching and research universities distinguished by its:
- Size – 2,850 undergraduates and 1,950 graduates
- Resources – undergraduate-to-faculty ratio is
5-to-1; graduate-to-faculty ratio is 4-to-1; fifth-largest endowment per student among private American universities
- Selectivity – accepts only ten applicants for each place in the freshman class
The Computer Science Department is a small, high-quality department focused equally on education and research. Our faculty are all active researchers who bring knowledge and insights gained in the lab into the classroom providing students an exceptional, hands-on education to prepare them for real-world applications.
What Your Contributions Support
Member contributions fund activities
within the department that are not covered by traditional university sources, such as purchasing supplementary equipment for research, special research projects, funding graduate student travel to conferences, and aiding in the recruitment of high-caliber faculty and graduate students.