My Rice Account(s)

Students and employees are automatically set up with a NetID, email and storage accounts as soon as their acceptance of Rice's offer of employment or admission is complete.  These accounts are good for the duration of your academic degree or diploma plan or for the length of your employment with the university. 

• How long can I use my Rice accounts? Until you leave Rice, either by graduating or by ending your employment. 
• Summary of Rice accounts supported by IT
• Rice NetID - what is it and what does it do for me?

 IT-Supported Accounts requiring NetID login

• Calendar - Organize your meetings and appointments with other Rice community members in your Oracle Calendar account. IT Tutorials has instructions to request an account.
• CLEAR - New Linux environment for students, faculty, and researchers.  Contact the Help Desk for additional information.
• Email - Use your NetID to login and use your Rice email account
• OWL-Space - Use your OWL-Space account to manage files and data for your courses, classrooms, and labs;
• Storage - See "Files on your U-Drive" in IT Tutorials for assistance saving data to your storage space. 
• VPN - The Rice University Virtual Private Networking (VPN) System allows secure transportation of data between Rice University and a remote user connected to the Internet outside of Rice.

Other Rice Accounts, not supported by IT

• For a list of other Rice accounts, which may or may not required your NetID to log in, see the IT Tutorials information on NetID.