Jones 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.
While today all campus residence buildings are officially coed, Jones College was originally built as Rice’s first on-campus housing for women. The college became coed in fall 1980.
What’s there: Undergraduate housing, Jones College Commons
Named for: Mary Gibbs Jones, wife of Houston financier Jesse H. Jones
Built: 1957, Lloyd & Morgan
Rice Campus Map No. 41