Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Founded in 1764 as "The College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations," Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine Colonial Colleges established before the American Revolution. At its foundation, Brown was the first college in the United States to accept students regardless of their religious affiliation. Its engineering program, established in 1847, was the first in what is now known as the Ivy League. Brown's New Curriculum—sometimes referred to in education theory as the Brown Curriculum—was adopted by faculty vote in 1969 after a period of student lobbying; the New Curriculum eliminated mandatory "general education" distribution requirements, made students "the architects of their own syllabus," and allowed them to take any course for a grade of satisfactory or unrecorded no-credit. n 1971, Brown's coordinate women's institution, Pembroke College, was fully merged into the university.
Undergraduate admissions is among the most selective in the country, with an acceptance rate of 8.5 percent for the class of 2019. The University comprises The College, the Graduate School, Alpert Medical School, the School of Engineering, the School of Public Health, and the School of Professional Studies (which includes the IE Brown Executive MBA program). Brown's international programs are organized through the Watson Institute for International Studies, and is academically affiliated with the Marine Biological Laboratory and the Rhode Island School of Design. The Brown/RISD Dual Degree Program, offered in conjunction with the Rhode Island School of Design, is a five-year course that awards degrees from both institutions.
Brown's main campus is located in the College Hill Historic District in the city of Providence, the third largest city in New England. The University's neighborhood is a federally listed architectural district with a dense concentration of ancient buildings. On the western edge of the campus, Benefit Street contains "one of the finest cohesive collections of restored seventeenth- and eighteenth-century architecture in the United States"
Brown is home to many prominent alumni, known as Brunonians, including current chair of the Federal Reserve Janet Yellen '67 and president of the World Bank Jim Yong Kim '82. Brown has produced 57 Rhodes Scholars, five National Humanities Medalists, eight billionaire graduates, and 10 National Medal of Science laureates, and is also a leading producer of Fulbright, Marshall, and Mitchell scholars.
Contents [hide]
1 History
1.1 The Foundation and the Charter
1.2 The New Curriculum
2 Campus
2.1 Main campus
2.2 Haffenreffer Museum
2.3 Pembroke campus
3 Academics
3.1 Presidents
3.2 The College
3.3 Brown/RISD Dual Degree Program
3.4 Theatre and playwriting
3.5 Writing programs
3.6 Author prizewinners
3.7 Computer science
3.8 The Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology
3.9 The Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
3.10 The School of Engineering
3.11 IE Brown Executive MBA Dual Degree Program
3.12 Alpert Medical School
3.13 The Marine Biological Laboratory
4 Admission and financial aid
5 Sustainability
6 Athletics
7 Student life
7.1 Residential and Greek societies
7.2 Societies and Clubs
7.3 Student Organizations
7.4 Resource Centers
7.5 Controversy Over ADA Mental Health Discrimination
8 Rankings
9 Notable people
9.1 In popular culture
10 See also
11 References
11.1 Bibliography
12 External links
History[edit]
Main article: History of Brown UniversityThe Foundation and the Charter[edit]
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