question: Which is farther west, Batangas State University or Rice University?
answer: Rice University
context: Title: Jose P. Laurel Polytechnic College
  Passage: The Jose P. Laurel Polytechnic College (Filipino: "Jose P. Laurel Politeknikang Kolehiyo" ), or simply JPLPC, is a satellite campus of Batangas State University.  It is located in Malvar, Batangas, Philippines.  It is one of the two satellite campuses of Batangas State University, the other being Apolinario R. Apacible School of Fisheries.
  Title: Monashee Mountains
  Passage: The Monashee Mountains are a mountain range lying mostly in British Columbia, Canada, extending into the U.S. state of Washington.  They stretch 530 km from north to south and 150 km from east to west.  They are a sub-range of the Columbia Mountains.  They are limited on the eastern side by the Columbia River and Arrow Lakes, beyond which lie the Selkirk Mountains, and by the upper North Thompson River and the Interior Plateau on the west.  The northern end of the range is at the southern end of the Robson Valley just south of the town of Valemount.  The southern extremity of the range is in Washington State, where the Kettle River Range reaches just down to the confluence of the Kettle River and the Columbia, and also farther west to the southern extremity of the Okanagan Highland (spelled Okanogan Highland in the US) just northeast of the confluence of the Okanogan and Columbia rivers at Brewster and Bridgeport.
  Title: James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy
  Passage: The James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, also known as the Baker Institute, is an American think tank on the campus of Rice University in Houston, Texas.  Founded in 1993, it functions as a nonpartisan center for public policy research.  According to the "2015 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report" (Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program, University of Pennsylvania), the institute is No. 18 (of 60) in the "Top Think Tanks in the United States" and No. 4 (of 45) of the "Best University Affiliated Thanks".  Its Center for Energy Studies is ranked No. 2 (of 55) among the world’s energy- and resource-policy think tanks, according to the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program’s 2015 Index Report.  It is named for James A. Baker, III, former United States secretary of state and secretary of the Treasury.  The institute's director Edward P. Djerejian is the former United States ambassador to Israel and Syria and assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs.  The institute's board of advisors include William Barnett (Chair), Colin Powell, Madeleine Albright and Rice University's President David Leebron.
  Title: Arizona State Route 389
  Passage: State Route 389, also known as SR 389, is a state highway in far northern Arizona serving the Arizona Strip.  SR 389 stretches from the Utah border at Colorado City, southeast to Pipe Spring National Monument, and ends at U.S. Route 89A in Fredonia; it is the only major east–west route between these two towns, and also serves to connect Fredonia with points farther west such as St. George, Utah.
  Title: Batangas State University Apolinario R. Apacible School of Fisheries
  Passage: Batangas State University Apolinario R. Apacible School of Fisheries
  Title: Texas State Highway 77
  Passage: State Highway 77, or SH 77, is a numbered state highway in Texas, occupying the counties of Morris and Cass.  SH 77 is 46.815 mi long, and connects U.S. Highway 259 to the eastern state line.  It begins four miles (6 km) north of Omaha on US 259, and travels eastward to Naples, meeting U.S. Highway 67 and State Highway 338.  In Douglassville, SH 77 intersects State Highway 8.  After cutting across the south side of Atlanta, where it meets U.S. Highway 59 (Future Interstate 369), SH 77 cuts to the southeast, and crosses into the very northwest corner of Louisiana, becoming Louisiana Highway 1.  SH 77 was originally proposed in 1926 as a route from Douglasville to Naples, replacing SH 1B.  By 1933, SH 77 extended southeast to Louisiana, replacing a portion of SH 47.  It was originally planned to travel farther west to Commerce, but this plan was cancelled in 1941.  In 1966, SH 77 was extended west over FM 2880 from US 259 to US 67.
  Title: Register Cliff
  Passage: Register Cliff is a sandstone cliff and featured key navigational landmark prominently listed in the 19th century guidebooks about the Oregon Trail, and a place where many emigrants chiseled the names of their families on the soft stones of the cliff it was one of the key checkpoint landmarks for parties heading west along the Platte River valley west of Fort John, Wyoming which allowed travelers to verify they were on the correct path up to South Pass and not moving into impassable mountain terrainsgeographically, it is on the eastern ascent of the Continental divide leading upward out of the great plains in the east of the U.S. state of Wyoming.  It is notable as a historic landmark for 'registering' hundreds of emigrants on the Oregon Trail (thus also the other northern Emigrant Trails that split off farther west such as the California Trail and Mormon Trail) who came to follow custom and inscribed their names on its rocks during the western migrations of the 19th century.  An estimated 500,000 emigrants used these trails from 1843–1869, with up to one-tenth dying along the way, usually due to disease.
  Title: Supreme Student Councils Confederation
  Passage: The Supreme Student Councils Confederation or abbreviated as "SSCC" is the highest student governing body of Batangas State University.  It was composed of different Supreme Student Council Officers from its 10 campuses that also represent the students of said University.
  Title: Batangas State University
  Passage: The Batangas State University (translated in Filipino as "Pambansang Pamantasan ng Batangas" and abbreviated as BatStateU, BatSU, or BSU) is a state university in the province of Batangas, Philippines.  Established in 1903 as a training school, Batangas State University is the oldest higher education institution in the province.  It was granted a state college status in 1968, renamed Pablo Borbon Memorial Institute of Technology, and was finally elevated into a state university in 2001.  At present, the university has ten campuses in Batangas.
  Title: Rice University
  Passage: Rice University, officially William Marsh Rice University, is a private research university located on a 295-acre campus in Houston, Texas, United States.  The university is situated near the Houston Museum District and is adjacent to the Texas Medical Center.  Rice is generally considered the top university and the most selective institution of higher education in the state of Texas.
citations: Rice University Batangas State University