Rice University, Baylor College of Medicine talk merger

Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine, both in Houston, have begun holding serious discussions that could lead to a merger of the state's top private university and one of the country's best medical schools. A merger would bring Rice the reputational enhancement it has long desired and Baylor the security of a university affiliation, which is often necessary to keep medical schools afloat financially. Baylor is one of only nine stand-alone medical schools in the United States. It has been a free-standing medical school since severing ties with Baylor University in 1969.

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