Faculty Senate Approved

Procedures for Creating or Eliminating Graduate Programs

• Creating and Changing Graduate Programs
• Creating Graduate Dual-Degree and Joint-Degree Programs at Rice University
• Creation of online degree programs
• Elimination of Graduate Programs: Procedures and Best Practices
• Guidelines for Graduate Certificates
• Guidelines for Graduate Major Concentrations
• Resolution regarding edX

Graduate Academic Programs

• Accounting (M.A.) Jan. 29, 2014
• Applied Chemical Sciences: Professional Science Master's Degree (March 25, 2020)
• Architecture (name change to Master of Science) (November 20, 2019)
• Art History (Ph.D.) April 23, 2008
• Art History: Non-thesis Master of Arts (Oct. 16, 2013)
• Bioengineering Master Degree (Major Concentrations) (January 26, 2022)
• Bioscience and Health Policy (MSBHP) degree name change (April 23, 2014)
• Bioscience and Health Policy track in the Professional Science Master's Program (March 30, 2011)
• Business (M.A.) Jan. 27, 2010
• Business Ph.D.: Major Concentrations (April 22, 2020)
• Business Ph.D.: Major Concentration in Organizational Behavior (October 26, 2022)
• Business Ph.D.: Major Concentration in Operations Management (March 29, 2023)
• Business: Non-thesis Master of Arts (April 17, 2019)
• Certificate in African and African American Studies (April 22, 2020)
• Certificate in Dual Credit Teacher Credentialing - English (April 21, 2021)
• Certificate in Dual Credit Teacher Credentialing - History (April 21, 2021)
• Certificate in Engineering Management and Leadership (September 27, 2023)
• Certificate in Gnosticism, Esotericism, and Mysticism (GEM) Feb. 24, 2016
• Certificate in Teaching and Learning (Nov. 12, 2014)
• Certificate in the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality (March 25, 2015)
• Civil and Environmental Engineering (April 15, 2009)
• Computational Applied Mathematics and Operations Research Name Change (September 27, 2023)
• Computational Science and Engineering (Master's) Update (February 22, 2021)
• Computer Science: Online Master's (November 14, 2018)
• Data Science Master's (January 27, 2021)
• Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences (name change from ESCI) (November 30, 2022)
• Economics: Major Concentration in Econometrics and Quantitative Economics (October 28, 2020)
• Electrical and Computer Engineering (Master's) Name Change (November 18, 2020)
• Energy Economics (Professional Master's) (Dec. 3, 2014)
• Energy Transition and Sustainability (February 21, 2024)
• Engineering Management and Leadership (Master's) (April 21, 2021)
• Global Affairs (M.A.) (Feb. 26, 2014)
• Global Affairs (Master) Name Change (October 28, 2020)
• Graduate Major Concentrations in Economics and Finance (March 30, 2016)
• History: Dual Ph.D. between Rice University and Instituto Mora, Mexico (Feb. 24, 2016)
• History: Dual Ph.D. between Rice University and Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil (Nov. 14, 2012)
• Industrial Engineering: Non-Thesis Master's Degree (Feb. 21, 2018)
• Industrial-Organizational Psychology (Master's) (January 27, 2021)
• Liberal Studies: Full time Master's of Liberal Studies, Diploma in Liberal Studies (January 29, 2020)
• Liberal Studies: Graduate Diploma from the Glasscock School of Continuing Studies (April 19, 2017)
• Management (Ph.D.) from the Jones School (Sept. 26, 2007); Ratification regarding Jones School Ph.D. (Sept. 9, 2009)
• Materials Science and NanoEngineering (Professional Master's Degree Program) (April 23, 2014)
• MBA@Rice (online MBA) from the Jones Graduate School of Business (Nov. 15, 2017)
• MBA: convert Major Concentrations to Areas of Specialization (November 29, 2023)
• Music: Post-Master's Artist Diploma in Music (March 28, 2012)
• Nanoscale Science (MSNS) degree name change (March 30, 2016)
• Philosophy: Non-thesis Master of Arts option (March 28, 2012)
• Program in Writing and Communication (Nov. 2011)
  Also see: Working Group Report and Recommendations (Nov. 2011)
• Psychology: Graduate Major Concentrations and CIP Codes (April 2018)
• Psychology: Graduate Major Concentration in Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine Research (November 20, 2019)
• Psychology: Master's in Human-Computer Interaction and Human Factors (March 2018)
• Religion (M.A.) (April 19, 2017)
• Religion: Non-thesis Master of Arts (Feb. 26, 2014)
• Master of Social Policy Evaluation (October 23, 2019)
• Sociology (Ph.D.) (April 21, 2010)
• Subsurface Geoscience (Master's) Name Change (October 27, 2021)
• Space Studies: Professional Science Masters Track (March 28, 2012)
• Systems,Synthetic, and Physical Biology (Sept. 12, 2012)

Eliminated Graduate Programs

Per Faculty Senate policy, some graduate programs are eliminated without action by the Faculty Senate

• Termination of Graduate Certificate in Critical and Cultural Theory (approved by the Graduate Council, March 10, 2023)