Rice University

Quality:

Rice University - private university in Houston, Texas, USA. This university is the 107^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of universities and the 107^th most popular university in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Rice University” in Simple English Wikipedia has 35.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 11 references and 1 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 107^th most popular in universities in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 107^th most popular in universities.

Since the creation of article “Rice University”, its content was written by 12 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1255 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Rice University is on the 107^th place in local ranking of universities in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 107^th place in global ranking of universities in all the time.

The article is cited 74 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 9379 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #2136 in March 2012
• Global: #1664 in August 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #5607 in November 2016
• Global: #29032 in December 2023

There are 39 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Rice University		92.9823
2	Chinese (zh) 萊斯大學		55.6003
3	Latin (la) Universitas Ricensis		52.6011
4	Ukrainian (uk) Університет Райса		47.3804
5	Russian (ru) Университет Райса		46.6093
6	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Rice University		44.833
7	Persian (fa) دانشگاه رایس		42.5376
8	Hebrew (he) אוניברסיטת רייס		41.3902
9	German (de) Rice University		37.8288
10	Simple English (simple) Rice University		35.352

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Rice University		6 377 890
2	Chinese (zh) 萊斯大學		350 154
3	Japanese (ja) ライス大学		229 205
4	Spanish (es) Universidad Rice		118 729
5	German (de) Rice University		109 183
6	Russian (ru) Университет Райса		82 348
7	Turkish (tr) Rice Üniversitesi		77 151
8	French (fr) Université Rice		72 810
9	Korean (ko) 라이스 대학교		60 589
10	Persian (fa) دانشگاه رایس		55 508

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Rice University		18 309
2	Chinese (zh) 萊斯大學		1 202
3	Japanese (ja) ライス大学		803
4	Turkish (tr) Rice Üniversitesi		799
5	German (de) Rice University		341
6	Spanish (es) Universidad Rice		212
7	Russian (ru) Университет Райса		199
8	French (fr) Université Rice		187
9	Persian (fa) دانشگاه رایس		128
10	Korean (ko) 라이스 대학교		111

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Rice University		695
2	German (de) Rice University		63
3	French (fr) Université Rice		60
4	Japanese (ja) ライス大学		50
5	Chinese (zh) 萊斯大學		37
6	Italian (it) Università Rice		32
7	Russian (ru) Университет Райса		25
8	Persian (fa) دانشگاه رایس		23
9	Esperanto (eo) Universitato Rice		22
10	Korean (ko) 라이스 대학교		21

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Rice University		2
2	Hebrew (he) אוניברסיטת רייס		2
3	Arabic (ar) جامعة رايس		1
4	German (de) Rice University		1
5	French (fr) Université Rice		1
6	Indonesian (id) Universitas Rice		1
7	Japanese (ja) ライス大学		1
8	Lithuanian (lt) Raiso universitetas		1
9	Azerbaijani (az) Rays Universiteti		0
10	Belarusian (be) Універсітэт імя У. М. Райса		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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