In collaboration with the Baylor College of Medicine, the business school offers the MD/MBA dual degree program for candidates seeking to integrate business knowledge with expertise in medical schools, physician groups, hospitals and managed care organizations.
The U.S. health care industry faces many challenges such as sky-rocketing costs, increasing demand, inadequate access to health care, inefficiency, inconsistent quality of services, non-uniform processes and more. Increasingly complex changes in the health care and life sciences industries require physicians to take on leadership roles in nontraditional capacities. You could be a part of the solution.
Upon completing the MBA/MD dual degree program, students will be able to:
Requirements for the MBA/MD Dual Degree Program
As part of the coordinated dual degree program, students have the opportunity to earn both the (Rice) MBA degree and the (Baylor College of Medicine) MD degree in 5 years. The program is structured as follows:
Students are expected to follow the requirements for the health care concentration as the blueprint for their MBA studies, to the extent possible and in consultation with the Program Director of the Health Care Initiative at Jones Graduate School of Business. To obtain the concentration, students take US Health Care Management in fall of their second year and complete 12 credits from a suite of health care courses offered throughout the year.
Students are eligible to receive their MBA degree from Rice i.) after they have completed 45 credit hour of approved business coursework, and ii.) after they have completed the MD degree requirements specified by the Baylor College of Medicine.
*Price shown is for indicative purposes, please
10 March 2025
Start date
August 2025
Jones Graduate School of Business
McNair Hall, Loop Road,
HOUSTON,
Texas,
77005, United States
We require applicants to hold a four-year U.S. bachelor's degree, or its international equivalent.
Applicants who are foreign nationals and those whose native language is not English must provide evidence of English proficiency. The following language proficiency tests are accepted by Rice graduate programs and will be used to assess English language proficiency:
*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.
Rice University is one of the USA’s leading research universities, consistently ranking in the country’s top 20 colleges.