Rice University

Table of Contents

Locations

  1. Housing

    1. Residential Colleges

      1. McMurtry College, Burt and Deedee

        McMurtry College

        At Rice, a residential college functions as an extended family. Undergraduates are randomly assigned to one of 11 residential colleges so that each college represents a cross-section of the university’s diversity.

        The 10th of Rice’s 11 residential colleges to be constructed. Despite its relative youth, McMurtry already boasts a distinctive personality all its own.


        What’s there: Undergraduate housing, McMurtry College Commons


        Named for: Burt and Deedee McMurtry. Venture capitalist Burt McMurtry ’56 served on the student committee that endorsed the transition from the institution’s original dormitory structures to the residential college system.


        Built: 2009, Hopkins Architects with Hanbury Evans Wright Vlattas + Company


        Rice Campus Map No. 51