Rice University was founded in 1800 by William Marshall Rice, a Texas cotton tycoon. It is located in a quiet suburb of Houston, Texas, and is the highest institution of higher learning in the southern United States, only three miles from the city center. Rice University was once as famous as the other two universities, Duke University in North Carolina and Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, and was known as Harvard in the South. Rice University has been ranked in the top 20 in the authoritative American News and World Report, and ranked15-2016 in the latest American News and World Report.
Johns Hopkins University, founded in 1876, is the first research university in the United States, one of the founding schools of association of american universities 14, and a world-class famous private university. The National Science Foundation ranked this university as the university with the highest research expenditure in the United States for 33 consecutive years. Up to now, 36 faculty members have won the Nobel Prize. In 20 14, American news and world report listed it as 1 1 in the world and the 9th in the United States. The Higher Education Supplement of The Times of England listed it as 15 in the world.