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Coordinates : 41°49′34″N  71°24′11″W From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article is about the private research university in Rhode Island. For the private Christian university in Arkansas, see John Brown University . Brown University
Coat of arms
Latin : Universitas Brunensis
Former names Rhode Island College (1764–1804)
MottoIn Deo Speramus  (Latin )
Motto in English "In God We Hope"[1]
TypePrivate  research university
EstablishedSeptember 15, 1764; 259 years ago
Accreditation NECHE
Academic affiliations
  • AAU
  • COFHE
  • URA
  • NAICU
  • Space-grant
Endowment $6.6 billion (2023)[2]
President Christina Paxson
Provost Francis J. Doyle III
Academic staff 819[3]
Students10,425 (Spring 2023)[4]
Undergraduates 7,125 (Spring 2023)[3]
Postgraduates 3,300 (Spring 2023)[3]
LocationProvidence , Rhode Island , United States 41°49′34″N  71°24′11″W
CampusMidsize city, 143 acres (0.58 km2)
Other campuses
  • Groton
  • Madrid
NewspaperThe Brown Daily Herald
Colors Seal brown, cardinal red, and white[5]        
Nickname Bears
Sporting affiliations
  • NCAA Division I FCS  – Ivy League
  • ECAC Hockey
  • EARC
  • EAWRC
  • NEISA
  • CWPA
  • IRA
MascotBruno the Bear
Websitewww.brown.edu

Brown University  is a private  Ivy League  research university  in Providence, Rhode Island . It is the seventh-oldest institution  of higher education  in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations . One of nine colonial colleges  chartered before the American Revolution ,[6]  it was the first college in the United States to codify in its charter that admission and instruction of students was to be equal regardless of their religious affiliation .[7]

The university is home to the oldest applied mathematics  program in the United States, the oldest engineering program in the Ivy League, and the third-oldest medical program in New England .[a] [8] [9] [10]  It was one of the early doctoral-granting U.S. institutions in the late 19th century, adding masters and doctoral studies in 1887.[11]  In 1969, it adopted its Open Curriculum  after a period of student lobbying, which 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 (Pass) or no-credit (Fail) which is unrecorded on external transcripts.[12] [13]  In 1971, Brown's coordinate women's institution, Pembroke College , was fully merged into the university.

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. Its international programs are organized through the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs , and it is academically affiliated with the Marine Biological Laboratory  and the Rhode Island School of Design ; with the latter, it offers undergraduate and graduate dual degree programs .

Brown's main campus is in the College Hill  neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island. The university is surrounded by a federally listed architectural district  with a dense concentration of Colonial-era buildings. Benefit Street, which runs along the campus's western edge, has one of America's richest concentrations of 17th- and 18th-century architecture.[14] [15]  Brown's undergraduate admissions are among the most selective in the country, with an overall acceptance rate of 5% for the class of 2026.[16] [17]

As of March 2022, 11 Nobel Prize  winners have been affiliated with Brown as alumni , faculty, or researchers , as well as 1 Fields Medalist , 7 National Humanities Medalists [b]  and 11 National Medal of Science  laureates. Other notable alumni include 27 Pulitzer Prize  winners,[c]  21 billionaires,[d]  1 U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice , 4 U.S. Secretaries of State , over 100 members of the United States Congress ,[24]  58 Rhodes Scholars ,[25]  22 MacArthur Genius  Fellows,[e]  and 38 Olympic medalists.[26]

History [ edit ] Main article: History of Brown University

Foundation and charter [ edit ] Petitioner Ezra Stiles  later became the seventh president  of Yale College . Petitioner William Ellery  signed the US Declaration of Independence  in 1776.

In 1761, three residents of Newport, Rhode Island , drafted a petition to the colony's General Assembly :[27]

That your Petitioners propose to open a literary institution or School for instructing young Gentlemen in the Languages, Mathematics, Geography & History, & such other branches of Knowledge as shall be desired. That for this End... it will be necessary... to erect a public Building or Buildings for the boarding of the youth & the Residence of the Professors.

The three petitioners were Ezra Stiles , pastor of Newport's Second Congregational Church  and future president of Yale University ; William Ellery Jr. , future signer  of the United States Declaration of Independence ; and Josias Lyndon , future governor of the colony. Stiles and Ellery later served as co-authors of the college's charter two years later. The editor of Stiles's papers observes, "This draft of a petition connects itself with other evidence of Dr. Stiles's project for a Collegiate Institution in Rhode Island, before the charter of what became Brown University."[27] [28] [11]

The Philadelphia  Association of Baptist Churches was also interested in establishing a college in Rhode Island—home of the mother church of their denomination . At the time, the Baptists were unrepresented among the colonial colleges; the Congregationalists  had Harvard  and Yale , the Presbyterians  had the College of New Jersey (later Princeton ), and the Episcopalians  had the College of William and Mary  and King's College (later Columbia ) while their local University of Pennsylvania  was specifically founded without direct association with any particular denomination.[29]  Isaac Backus, a historian of the New England Baptists and an inaugural trustee of Brown, wrote of the October 1762 resolution taken at Philadelphia:[11]

The Philadelphia Association obtained such an acquaintance with our affairs, as to bring them to an apprehension that it was practicable and expedient to erect a college in the Colony of Rhode-Island, under the chief direction of the Baptists; ... Mr. James Manning , who took his first degree in New-Jersey college  in September, 1762, was esteemed a suitable leader in this important work.

James Manning arrived at Newport in July 1763 and was introduced to Stiles, who agreed to write the charter for the college. Stiles' first draft was read to the General Assembly in August 1763, and rejected by Baptist members who worried that their denomination would be underrepresented in the College Board of Fellows. A revised charter written by Stiles and Ellery was adopted by the Rhode Island General Assembly on March 3, 1764, in East Greenwich .[30]

Brown's first president, minister James Manning The Ezra Stiles  copy of Brown's 1764 charter

In September 1764, the inaugural meeting of the corporation—the college's governing body—was held in Newport's Old Colony House . Governor Stephen Hopkins  was chosen chancellor, former and future governor Samuel Ward  vice chancellor, John Tillinghast treasurer, and Thomas Eyres secretary. The charter stipulated that the board of trustees should be composed of 22 Baptists, five Quakers , five Episcopalians, and four Congregationalists. Of the 12 Fellows, eight should be Baptists—including the college president—"and the rest indifferently of any or all Denominations."[11]

At the time of its creation, Brown's charter was a uniquely progressive document.[31]  Other colleges had curricular strictures against opposing doctrines, while Brown's charter asserted, "Sectarian differences of opinions, shall not make any Part of the Public and Classical Instruction." The document additionally "recognized more broadly and fundamentally than any other [university charter] the principle of denominational cooperation."[11]  The oft-repeated statement that Brown's charter alone prohibited a religious test for College membership is inaccurate; other college charters were similarly liberal in that particular.[32]

This 1792 engraving is the first published image of Brown. University Hall  stands on the right while the President's House sits on the left.

The college was founded as Rhode Island College, at the site of the First Baptist Church in Warren, Rhode Island .[33]  Manning was sworn in as the college's first president in 1765 and remained in the role until 1791. In 1766, the college authorized the Reverend  Morgan Edwards  to travel to Europe to "solicit Benefactions for this Institution".[32]  During his year-and-a-half stay in the British Isles , Edwards secured funding from benefactors including Thomas Penn  and Benjamin Franklin .[32]

In 1770, the college moved from Warren to Providence. To establish a campus, John  and Moses Brown  purchased a four-acre lot on the crest of College Hill  on behalf of the school. The majority of the property fell within the bounds of the original home lot of Chad Brown , an ancestor of the Browns and one of the original proprietors of Providence Plantations .[34]  After the college was relocated to the city, work began on constructing its first building.

A building committee, organized by the corporation, developed plans for the college's first purpose-built edifice, finalizing a design on February 9, 1770. The subsequent structure, referred to as "The College Edifice" and later as University Hall , may have been modeled on Nassau Hall , built 14 years prior at the College of New Jersey . President Manning, an active member of the building process, was educated at Princeton and might have suggested that Brown's first building resemble that of his alma mater .[35]

Brown family [ edit ] Following the gift of Nicholas Brown Jr.  (Class of 1786), the university was renamed in his honor.

Nicholas Brown , John Brown , Joseph Brown , and Moses Brown  were instrumental in moving the college to Providence, constructing its first building, and securing its endowment. Joseph became a professor of natural philosophy  at the college; John served as its treasurer from 1775 to 1796; and Nicholas Sr's son Nicholas Brown Jr.  succeeded his uncle as treasurer from 1796 to 1825.[36]

On September 8, 1803, the corporation voted, "That the donation of $5,000, if made to this College within one Year from the late Commencement, shall entitle the donor to name the College." The following year, the appeal was answered by College Treasurer Nicholas Brown Jr. In a letter dated September 6, 1804, Brown committed "a donation of Five Thousand Dollars to Rhode Island College, to remain in perpetuity as a fund for the establishment of a Professorship of Oratory and Belles Letters." In recognition of the gift, the corporation on the same day voted, "That this College be called and known in all future time by the Name of Brown University."[37]  Over the years, the benefactions of Nicholas Brown Jr., totaled nearly $160,000 and included funds for building Hope College (1821–22) and Manning Hall (1834–35).

In 1904, the John Carter Brown Library  was established as an independently funded research library on Brown's campus; the library's collection was founded on that of John Carter Brown , son of Nicholas Brown Jr.

The Brown family was involved in various business ventures in Rhode Island, and accrued wealth both directly and indirectly from the transatlantic slave trade . The family was divided on the issue of slavery. John Brown had defended slavery, while Moses and Nicholas Brown Jr. were fervent abolitionists .

In 2003, under the tenure of President Ruth Simmons , the university established a steering committee to investigate these ties of the university to slavery and recommend a strategy to address them.[38]

American Revolution [ edit ]

With British vessels patrolling Narragansett Bay  in the fall of 1776, the college library was moved out of Providence for safekeeping. During the subsequent American Revolutionary War , Brown's University Hall  was used to house French and other revolutionary troops led by General George Washington  and the Comte de Rochambeau  as they waited to commence the march of 1781  that led to the Siege of Yorktown  and the Battle of the Chesapeake . This has been celebrated as marking the defeat of the British and the end of the war. The building functioned as barracks and hospital from December 10, 1776, to April 20, 1780, and as a hospital for French troops from June 26, 1780, to May 27, 1782.[11]

A number of Brown's founders and alumni played roles in the American Revolution and subsequent founding of the United States. Brown's first chancellor, Stephen Hopkins, served as a delegate to the Colonial Congress in Albany  in 1754, and to the Continental Congress  from 1774 to 1776. James Manning represented Rhode Island at the Congress of the Confederation , while concurrently serving as Brown's first president.[39]  Two of Brown's founders, William Ellery and Stephen Hopkins signed the Declaration of Independence .

James Mitchell Varnum , who graduated from Brown with honors in 1769, served as one of General George Washington's Continental Army  brigadier generals  and later as major general  in command of the entire Rhode Island militia . Varnum is noted as the founder and commander of the 1st Rhode Island Regiment , widely regarded as the first Black battalion in U.S. military history.[40]  David Howell , who graduated with an A.M. in 1769, served as a delegate to the Continental Congress  from 1782 to 1785.

Presidents [ edit ] Brown's 2nd President, Jonathan Maxcy , was the first alum to serve as president. Brown's 4th President, Francis Wayland , urged American universities to adopt a broader curriculum. Brown's 18th President, Ruth Simmons , was the Ivy League's first African-American  president. Brown's 19th President, Christina Paxson , has served in the role since 2012. Main article: List of Presidents of Brown University

Nineteen individuals have served as presidents of the university since its founding in 1764. Since 2012, Christina Hull Paxson  has served as president. Paxson had previously served as dean of Princeton University's  School of Public and International Affairs  and chair of Princeton's economics department.[41]  Paxson's immediate predecessor, Ruth Simmons , is noted as the first African American  president of an Ivy League institution.[42]  Other presidents of note include academic, Vartan Gregorian ; and philosopher and economist, Francis Wayland .

New Curriculum [ edit ] Main article: Open Curriculum (Brown University)

In 1966, the first Group Independent Study Project (GISP) at Brown was formed, involving 80 students and 15 professors. The GISP was inspired by student-initiated experimental schools, especially San Francisco State College , and sought ways to "put students at the center of their education" and "teach students how to think rather than just teaching facts".[43]

Members of the GISP, Ira Magaziner  and Elliot Maxwell published a paper of their findings titled, "Draft of a Working Paper for Education at Brown University."[44] [43]  The paper made proposals for a new curriculum, including interdisciplinary  freshman-year courses that would introduce "modes of thought," with instruction from faculty from different disciplines as well as for an end to letter grades. The following year Magaziner began organizing the student body to press for the reforms, organizing discussions and protests.[45]

In 1968, university president Ray Heffner  established a Special Committee on Curricular Philosophy. Composed of administrators, the committee was tasked with developing specific reforms and producing recommendations. A report, produced by the committee, was presented to the faculty, which voted the New Curriculum into existence on May 7, 1969. Its key features included:[46]

  • Modes of Thought courses for first-year students
  • The introduction of interdisciplinary courses
  • The abandonment of "general education" distribution requirements
  • The Satisfactory/No Credit (S/NC) grading option
  • The ABC/No Credit grading system, which eliminated pluses, minuses, and D's; a grade of "No Credit" (equivalent to F's at other institutions) would not appear on external transcripts.

The Modes of Thought course was discontinued early on, but the other elements remain in place. In 2006, the reintroduction of plus/minus grading was proposed in response to concerns regarding grade inflation. The idea was rejected by the College Curriculum Council after canvassing alumni, faculty, and students, including the original authors of the Magaziner-Maxwell Report.[47]

"Slavery and Justice" report [ edit ] Slavery Memorial  was designed by Martin Puryear  and dedicated in 2014.

In 2003, then-university president Ruth Simmons  launched a steering committee to research Brown's eighteenth-century ties to slavery. In October 2006, the committee released a report documenting its findings.[48] [49]

Titled "Slavery and Justice", the document detailed the ways in which the university benefited both directly and indirectly from the transatlantic slave trade  and the labor of enslaved people. The report also included seven recommendations for how the university should address this legacy.[50]  Brown has since completed a number of these recommendations including the establishment of its Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, the construction of its Slavery Memorial , and the funding of a $10 million permanent endowment for Providence Public Schools .[50] [51]

The Slavery and Justice report marked the first major effort by an American university to address its ties to slavery and prompted other institutions to undertake similar processes.[52] [53]

Coat of arms [ edit ] Main article: Coat of Arms of Brown University

Brown's coat of arms was created in 1834. The prior year, president Francis Wayland  had commissioned a committee to update the school's original seal to match the name the university had adopted in 1804. Central in the coat of arms is a white escutcheon  divided into four sectors by a red cross. Within each sector of the coat of arms lies an open book. Above the shield is a crest consisting of the upper half of a sun in splendor  among the clouds atop a red and white torse .[54]

Campus [ edit ] University Hall , Brown's oldest building, was constructed in 1770 and is a National Historic Landmark Soldiers Memorial Gate (1921) long marked the eastern edge of Brown's campus.

Brown is the largest institutional landowner in Providence, with properties on College Hill and in the Jewelry District .[55]  The university was built contemporaneously with the eighteenth and nineteenth-century precincts surrounding it, making Brown's campus tightly integrated into Providence's urban fabric. Among the noted architects who have shaped Brown's campus are McKim, Mead & White , Philip Johnson , Rafael Viñoly , Diller Scofidio + Renfro , and Robert A. M. Stern .[56]

Main campus [ edit ] Further information: List of Brown University buildings

Brown's main campus, comprises 235 buildings and 143 acres (0.58 km2) in the East Side  neighborhood of College Hill. The university's central campus sits on a 15-acre (6.1-hectare) block bounded by Waterman, Prospect, George, and Thayer Streets ; newer buildings extend northward, eastward, and southward. Brown's core, historic campus, constructed primary between 1770 and 1926, is defined by three greens: the Front or Quiet Green, the Middle or College Green, and the Ruth J. Simmons Quadrangle (historically known as Lincoln Field).[57] [58]  A brick and wrought-iron fence punctuated by decorative gates and arches traces the block's perimeter. This section of campus is primarily Georgian  and Richardsonian Romanesque  in its architectural character.[57]

To the south of the central campus are academic buildings and residential quadrangles, including Wriston, Keeney, and Gregorian quadrangles. Immediately to the east of the campus core sit Sciences Park and Brown's School of Engineering . North of the central campus are performing and visual arts facilities, life sciences labs, and the Pembroke Campus, which houses both dormitories and academic buildings. Facing the western edge of the central campus sit two of the Brown's seven libraries, the John Hay Library  and the John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library .

The university's campus is contiguous with that of the Rhode Island School of Design , which is located immediately to Brown's west, along the slope of College Hill.

Van Wickle Gates [ edit ] Main article: Van Wickle Gates The Van Wickle Gates  stand at the crest of College Hill

Built in 1901, the Van Wickle Gates are a set of wrought iron gates that stand at the western edge of Brown's campus. The larger main gate is flanked by two smaller side gates. At Convocation the central gate opens inward to admit the procession of new students; at Commencement, the gate opens outward for the procession of graduates.[59]  A Brown superstition holds that students who walk through the central gate a second time prematurely will not graduate, although walking backward is said to cancel the hex.

John Hay Library [ edit ] Main article: John Hay Library The John Hay Library  is home to rare books, special collections, and the university archives.

The John Hay Library is the second oldest library on campus.[60]  Opened in 1910, the library is named for John Hay  (class of 1858), private secretary to Abraham Lincoln  and Secretary of State under William McKinley  and Theodore Roosevelt . The construction of the building was funded in large part by Hay's friend, Andrew Carnegie , who contributed half of the $300,000 cost of construction.[61]

The John Hay Library serves as the repository of the university's archives, rare books and manuscripts, and special collections. Noteworthy among the latter are the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection [62]  (described as "the foremost American collection of material devoted to the history and iconography of soldiers and soldiering"),[63]  the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays (described as "the largest and most comprehensive collection of its kind in any research library"), the Lownes Collection of the History of Science (described as "one of the three most important private collections of books of science in America"), and the papers of H. P. Lovecraft . The Hay Library is home to one of the broadest collections of incunabula  in the Americas, one of Brown's two Shakespeare First Folios , the manuscript of George Orwell 's Nineteen Eighty-Four ,  and three books bound in human skin .[64]

John Carter Brown Library [ edit ] Main article: John Carter Brown Library The John Carter Brown Library  is one of the world's leading repositories of books, maps, and manuscripts relating to the colonial Americas .[65]

Founded in 1846, the John Carter Brown Library is generally regarded as the world's leading collection of primary historical sources relating to the exploration and colonization of the Americas. While administered and funded separately from the university, the library has been owned by Brown and located on its campus since 1904.[66]

The library contains the best preserved of the eleven surviving copies of the Bay Psalm Book —the earliest extant book printed in British North America and the most expensive printed book in the world.[67]  Other holdings include a Shakespeare First Folio  and the world's largest collection of 16th century Mexican texts.[68]

The galleries of Brown's anthropology museum, the Haffenreffer , are located in Manning Hall.

Haffenreffer Museum [ edit ] Main article: Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology

The exhibition galleries of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown's teaching museum, are located in Manning Hall on the campus's main green. Its one million artifacts, available for research and educational purposes, are located at its Collections Research Center in Bristol, Rhode Island .[69]  The museum's goal is to inspire creative and critical thinking about culture by fostering an interdisciplinary understanding of the material world. It provides opportunities for faculty and students to work with collections and the public, teaching through objects and programs in classrooms and exhibitions. The museum sponsors lectures and events in all areas of anthropology and also runs an extensive program of outreach to local schools.

Annmary Brown Memorial [ edit ] Main article: Annmary Brown Memorial

The Annmary Brown Memorial was constructed from 1903 to 1907 by the politician, Civil War veteran, and book collector General Rush Hawkins , as a mausoleum for his wife, Annmary Brown, a member of the Brown family. In addition to its crypt—the final repository for Brown and Hawkins—the Memorial includes works of art from Hawkins's private collection, including paintings by Angelica Kauffman , Peter Paul Rubens , Gilbert Stuart , Giovanni Battista Tiepolo , Benjamin West , and Eastman Johnson , among others. His collection of over 450 incunabula  was relocated to the John Hay Library in 1990.[70]  Today the Memorial is home to Brown's Medieval Studies  and Renaissance Studies  programs.

The Walk [ edit ]

The Walk, a landscaped pedestrian corridor, connects the Pembroke Campus to the main campus. It runs parallel to Thayer Street  and serves as a primary axis of campus, extending from Ruth Simmons Quadrangle at its southern terminus to the Meeting Street entrance to the Pembroke Campus at its northern end.[71] [72]  The walk is bordered by departmental buildings as well as the Lindemann Performing Arts Center  and Granoff Center for the Creative Arts

The corridor is home to public art including sculptures by Maya Lin  and Tom Friedman .[73]

Pembroke campus [ edit ] Three dormitories, Metcalf Hall (1919), Andrews Hall (1947), and Miller Hall (1910), formed the heart of Pembroke College and now serve as freshman residences.

The Women's College in Brown University , known as Pembroke College, was founded in October 1891. Upon its 1971 merger with the College of Brown University, Pembroke's campus was absorbed into the larger Brown campus. The Pembroke campus is bordered by Meeting, Brown, Bowen, and Thayer Streets and sits three blocks north of Brown's central campus. The campus is dominated by brick architecture, largely of the Georgian  and Victorian styles . The west side of the quadrangle comprises Pembroke Hall (1897), Smith-Buonanno Hall (1907), and Metcalf Hall (1919), while the east side comprises Alumnae Hall (1927) and Miller Hall (1910). The quadrangle culminates on the north with Andrews Hall (1947).

East Campus, centered on Hope and Charlesfield streets, originally served as the campus of Bryant University . In 1969, as Bryant was preparing to relocate to Smithfield, Rhode Island , Brown purchased their Providence campus for $5 million. The transaction expanded the Brown campus by 10 acres (40,000 m2) and 26 buildings. In 1971, Brown renamed the area East Campus.[74]  Today, the area is largely used for dormitories.

Thayer Street  runs through Brown's main campus. As a commercial corridor frequented by students, Thayer is comparable to Harvard Square  or Berkeley's Telegraph Avenue . Wickenden Street , in the adjacent Fox Point  neighborhood, is another commercial street similarly popular among students.

Built in 1925, Brown Stadium —the home of the school's football team—is located approximately a mile and a half northeast of the university's central campus.[75]  Marston Boathouse, the home of Brown's crew teams, lies on the Seekonk River , to the southeast of campus. Brown's sailing teams are based out of the Ted Turner Sailing Pavilion at the Edgewood Yacht Club  in adjacent Cranston .

Since 2011, Brown's Warren Alpert Medical School has been located in Providence's historic Jewelry District , near the medical campus of Brown's teaching hospitals, Rhode Island Hospital  and the Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island . Other university facilities, including molecular medicine  labs and administrative offices, are likewise located in the area.[76] [77]

Brown's School of Public Health  occupies a landmark modernist building along the Providence River . Other Brown properties include the 376-acre (1.52 km2) Mount Hope Grant  in Bristol, Rhode Island, an important Native American site noted as a location of King Philip's War . Brown's Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology  Collection Research Center, particularly strong in Native American items, is located in the Mount Hope Grant.

Sustainability [ edit ]

Brown has committed to "minimize its energy use, reduce negative environmental impacts, and promote environmental stewardship."[78]  Since 2010, the university has required all new buildings meet LEED silver  standards.[79]  Between 2007 and 2018, Brown reduced its greenhouse emissions  by 27 percent; the majority of this reduction is attributable to the university's Thermal Efficiency Project which converted its central heating plant from a steam-powered system to a hot water-powered system.[80]

In 2020, Brown announced it had sold 90 percent of its fossil fuel  investments as part of a broader divestment from direct investments and managed funds that focus on fossil fuels .[81]  In 2021, the university adopted the goal of reducing quantifiable campus emissions by 75 percent by 2025 and achieving carbon neutrality  by 2040.[82]  Brown is a member of the Ivy Plus Sustainability Consortium, through which it has committed to best-practice sharing and the ongoing exchange of campus sustainability solutions along with other member institutions. [83]

According to the A. W. Kuchler  U.S. potential natural vegetation  types, Brown would have a dominant vegetation type of Appalachian Oak  (104 ) with a dominant vegetation form of Eastern Hardwood  Forest (25 ).[84]

Academics [ edit ]

The College [ edit ] Main article: College of Brown University Robinson Hall (1878) was designed by Walker and Gould  in the Venetian Gothic  style to house Brown's library.

Founded in 1764, The College is Brown's oldest school. About 7,200 undergraduate students are enrolled in the college[when? ], and 81 concentrations are offered. For the graduating class of 2020, the most popular concentrations were Computer Science, Economics, Biology, History, Applied Mathematics, International Relations, and Political Science. A quarter of Brown undergraduates complete more than one concentration before graduating.[85]  If the existing programs do not align with their intended curricular interests, undergraduates may design and pursue independent concentrations.[86]

Around 35 percent [needs update ] of undergraduates pursue graduate or professional study immediately, 60 percent within 5 years, and 80 percent within 10 years.[87]  For the Class of 2009, 56 percent of all undergraduate alumni have since earned graduate degrees. Among undergraduate alumni who go on to receive graduate degrees, the most common degrees earned are J.D. (16%), M.D. (14%), M.A. (14%), M.Sc. (14%), and Ph.D. (11%). The most common institutions from which undergraduate alumni earn graduate degrees are Brown University, Columbia University , and Harvard University .[88]

The highest fields of employment for undergraduate alumni ten years after graduation are education and higher education (15%), medicine (9%), business and finance (9%), law (8%), and computing and technology (7%).[88]

Brown and RISD [ edit ] The List Art Center, built 1969–71, designed by Philip Johnson , houses Brown's Department of Visual Art and the David Winton Bell Gallery .

Since its 1893 relocation to College Hill, Rhode Island School of Design  (RISD) has bordered Brown to its west. Since 1900, Brown and RISD students have been able to cross-register at the two institutions, with Brown students permitted to take as many as four courses at RISD to count towards their Brown degree.[89]  The two institutions partner to provide various student-life services and the two student bodies compose a synergy in the College Hill cultural scene.

Dual Degree Program [ edit ]

After several years of discussion between the two institutions and several students pursuing dual degrees unofficially, Brown and RISD formally established a five-year dual degree program in 2007, with the first class matriculating in the fall of 2008.[90]  The Brown|RISD Dual Degree Program, among the most selective in the country, offered admission to 20 of the 725 applicants for the class entering in autumn 2020, for an acceptance rate of 2.7%.[91]  The program combines the complementary strengths of the two institutions, integrating studio art and design at RISD with Brown's academic offerings. Students are admitted to the Dual Degree Program for a course lasting five years and culminating in both the Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) or Bachelor of Science (Sc.B.) degree from Brown and the Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) degree from RISD. Prospective students must apply to the two schools separately and be accepted by separate admissions committees. Their application must then be approved by a third Brown|RISD joint committee.

The Granoff Center , designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro , hosts the annual Brown|RISD Dual Degree exhibition.

Admitted students spend the first year in residence at RISD completing its first-year Experimental and Foundation Studies curriculum while taking up to three Brown classes. Students spend their second year in residence at Brown, during which students take mainly Brown courses while starting on their RISD major requirements. In the third, fourth, and fifth years, students can elect to live at either school or off-campus, and course distribution is determined by the requirements of each student's unique combination of Brown concentration and RISD major. Program participants are noted for their creative and original approach to cross-disciplinary opportunities, combining, for example, industrial design with engineering, or anatomical illustration with human biology, or philosophy with sculpture, or architecture with urban studies. An annual "BRDD Exhibition" is a well-publicized and heavily attended event, drawing interest and attendees from the broader world of industry, design, the media, and the fine arts.

MADE Program [ edit ]

In 2020, the two schools announced the establishment of a new joint Master of Arts in Design Engineering program. Abbreviated as MADE, the program intends to combine RISD's programs in industrial design with Brown's programs in engineering. The program is administered through Brown's School of Engineering and RISD's Architecture and Design Division.[92]

Theatre and playwriting [ edit ] Lyman Hall, built 1890–92, houses the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies.

Brown's theatre and playwriting programs are among the best-regarded in the country.[93] [94]  Six Brown graduates have received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama ; Alfred Uhry  '58, Lynn Nottage  '86, Ayad Akhtar  '93, Nilo Cruz  '94, Quiara Alegría Hudes  '04, and Jackie Sibblies Drury  MFA '04.[95]  In American Theater  magazine's 2009 ranking of the most-produced American plays, Brown graduates occupied four of the top five places—Peter Nachtrieb '97, Rachel Sheinkin '89, Sarah Ruhl  '97, and Stephen Karam  '02.[96] [97]

The undergraduate concentration encompasses programs in theatre history, performance theory, playwriting, dramaturgy, acting, directing, dance, speech, and technical production. Applications for doctoral and master's degree programs are made through the University Graduate School. Master's degrees in acting and directing are pursued in conjunction with the Brown/Trinity Rep MFA program, which partners with the Trinity Repertory Company , a local regional theatre .[98]

Aerial view of the Brown University English department

Writing programs [ edit ]

Writing at Brown—fiction, non-fiction, poetry, playwriting, screenwriting, electronic writing, mixed media, and the undergraduate writing proficiency requirement—is catered for by various centers and degree programs, and a faculty that has long included nationally and internationally known authors. The undergraduate concentration in literary arts offers courses in fiction, poetry, screenwriting, literary hypermedia, and translation. Graduate programs include the fiction and poetry MFA writing programs in the literary arts department and the MFA playwriting program in the theatre arts and performance studies department. The non-fiction writing program is offered in the English department. Screenwriting and cinema narrativity courses are offered in the departments of literary arts and modern culture and media. The undergraduate writing proficiency requirement is supported by the Writing Center.

Author prizewinners [ edit ]

Alumni authors take their degrees across the spectrum of degree concentrations, but a gauge of the strength of writing at Brown is the number of major national writing prizes won. To note only winners since the year 2000: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction -winners Jeffrey Eugenides  '82 (2003), Marilynne Robinson  '66 (2005), and Andrew Sean Greer  '92 (2018); British Orange Prize -winners Marilynne Robinson  '66 (2009) and Madeline Miller  '00 (2012); Pulitzer Prize for Drama -winners Nilo Cruz  '94 (2003), Lynn Nottage  '86 (twice, 2009, 2017), Quiara Alegría Hudes  '04 (2012), Ayad Akhtar  '93 (2013), and Jackie Sibblies Drury  MFA '04 (2019); Pulitzer Prize for Biography -winners David Kertzer  '69 (2015) and Benjamin Moser  '98 (2020); Pulitzer Prize for Journalism -winners James Risen  '77 (2006), Gareth Cook  '91 (2005), Tony Horwitz  '80 (1995), Usha Lee McFarling  '89 (2007), David Rohde  '90 (1996), Kathryn Schulz  '96 (2016), and Alissa J. Rubin  '80 (2016); Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction -winner James Forman Jr.  '88 (2018); Pulitzer Prize for History -winner Marcia Chatelain  PhD '08 (2021); Pulitzer Prize for Criticism -winner Salamishah Tillet  MAT '97 (2022); and Pulitzer Prize for Poetry -winner Peter Balakian  PhD '80 (2016)[99] [100]

Computer science [ edit ] The Brown Computing Laboratory, designed by Philip Johnson

Brown began offering computer science courses through the departments of Economics and Applied Mathematics in 1956 when it acquired an IBM machine. Brown added an IBM 650  in January 1958, the only one of its type between Hartford and Boston. In 1960, Brown opened its first dedicated computer building. The facility, designed by Philip Johnson , received an IBM 7070  computer the following year. Brown granted computer sciences full Departmental status in 1979. In 2009, IBM and Brown announced the installation of a supercomputer (by teraflops standards), the most powerful in the southeastern New England region.[101]

In the 1960s, Andries van Dam  along with Ted Nelson , and Bob Wallace  invented The Hypertext Editing Systems , HES  and FRESS  while at Brown. Nelson coined the word hypertext  while Van Dam's students helped originate XML , XSLT , and related Web standards. Among the school's computer science alumni are principal architect of the Classic Mac OS , Andy Hertzfeld ; principal architect of the Intel 80386  and Intel 80486  microprocessors, John Crawford ; former CEO of Apple , John Sculley ; and digital effects programmer Masi Oka .[102] [103]  Other alumni include former CS department head at MIT, John Guttag , Workday  founder, Aneel Bhusri , MongoDB  founder Eliot Horowitz , Figma  founders Dylan Field  and Evan Wallace; and OpenSea  founder Devin Finzer .[104]

The character "Andy" in the animated film Toy Story  is purportedly an homage to professor Van Dam from his students employed at Pixar .[105]

Between 2012 and 2018, the number of concentrators in CS tripled.[106]  In 2017, computer science overtook economics as the school's most popular undergraduate concentration.[107]

Applied mathematics [ edit ]

Brown's program in applied mathematics  was established in 1941 making it the oldest such program in the United States.[8] [108]  The division is highly ranked and regarded nationally and internationally.[109] [110]  Among the 67 recipients of the Timoshenko Medal , 22 have been affiliated with Brown's applied mathematics division as faculty, researchers, or students.[f]

The Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World [ edit ] Greek Revival  Rhode Island Hall (1840) on the Main Green is home to the Joukowsky Institute . The Department of Egyptology and Assyriology in Wilbour Hall (1888). Wilbour Hall is named for Egyptologist Charles Edwin Wilbour  (class of 1854). Main article: Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World

Established in 2004, the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World is Brown's interdisciplinary research center for archeology and ancient studies. The institute pursues fieldwork, excavations, regional surveys, and academic study of the archaeology and art of the ancient Mediterranean, Egypt, and Western Asia from the Levant  to the Caucasus .[111]  The institute has a very active fieldwork profile, with faculty-led excavations and regional surveys presently in Petra  (Jordan), Abydos  (Egypt), Turkey, Sudan, Italy, Mexico, Guatemala, Montserrat , and Providence.

The Joukowsky Institute's faculty includes cross-appointments from the departments of Egyptology, Assyriology, Classics, Anthropology, and History of Art and Architecture. Faculty research and publication areas include Greek and Roman art and architecture, landscape archaeology, urban and religious architecture of the Levant, Roman provincial studies, the Aegean Bronze Age, and the archaeology of the Caucasus . The institute offers visiting teaching appointments and postdoctoral fellowships which have, in recent years, included Near Eastern Archaeology and Art, Classical Archaeology  and Art, Islamic Archaeology and Art, and Archaeology and Media Studies.

Egyptology and Assyriology

Facing the Joukowsky Institute, across the Front Green, is the Department of Egyptology and Assyriology, formed in 2006 by the merger of Brown's departments of Egyptology and History of Mathematics. It is one of only a handful of such departments in the United States.[112]  The curricular focus is on three principal areas: Egyptology , Assyriology , and the history of the ancient exact sciences (astronomy, astrology, and mathematics). Many courses in the department are open to all Brown undergraduates without prerequisites and include archaeology, languages, history, and Egyptian and Mesopotamian religions , literature, and science. Students concentrating in the department choose a track of either Egyptology or Assyriology. Graduate-level study comprises three tracks to the doctoral degree: Egyptology, Assyriology, or the History of the Exact Sciences in Antiquity.

The Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs [ edit ] Main article: Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs The main building at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs  was designed by Rafael Viñoly  in 2001 Stephen Robert Hall (2018) at the Watson Institute, was designed by Toshiko Mori

The Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown's center for the study of global Issues and public affairs, is one of the leading institutes of its type in the country. The institute occupies facilities designed by Uruguayan architect Rafael Viñoly  and Japanese architect Toshiko Mori . The institute was initially endowed by Thomas Watson Jr.  (Class of 1937), former Ambassador to the Soviet Union  and longtime president of IBM .

Institute faculty and faculty emeritus include Italian prime minister  and European Commission  president Romano Prodi ,[113]  Brazilian president Fernando Henrique Cardoso ,[114]  Chilean president Ricardo Lagos Escobar ,[115]  Mexican novelist and statesman Carlos Fuentes ,[116]  Brazilian statesman and United Nations commission head Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro ,[117]  Indian foreign minister and ambassador to the United States Nirupama Rao ,[118]  American diplomat and Dayton Peace Accords  author Richard Holbrooke  (Class of 1962),[119]  and Sergei Khrushchev ,[120]  editor of the papers of his father Nikita Khrushchev , leader of the Soviet Union .

The institute's curricular interest is organized into the principal themes of development, security, and governance—with further focuses on globalization, economic uncertainty, security threats, environmental degradation , and poverty. Six Brown undergraduate concentrations are hosted by the Watson Institute: Development Studies , International and Public Affairs, International Relations, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Middle East Studies, Public Policy, and South Asian Studies. Graduate programs offered at the Watson Institute include the Graduate Program in Development (Ph.D.) and the Master of Public Affairs (M.P.A) Program. The institute also offers postdoctoral, professional development, and global outreach programming. In support of these programs, the institute houses various centers, including the Brazil Initiative, Brown-India Initiative, China Initiative, Middle East Studies Center, The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), and the Taubman Center for Public Policy. In recent years, the most internationally cited product of the Watson Institute has been its Costs of War Project , first released in 2011 and continuously updated since. The project comprises a team of economists, anthropologists, political scientists, legal experts, and physicians, and seeks to calculate the economic costs, human casualties, and impact on civil liberties of the wars in Iraq , Afghanistan , and Pakistan  since 2001.[121]

The School of Engineering [ edit ] Main article: Brown University School of Engineering The Brown University Engineering Research Center, completed in 2018 and designed by KieranTimberlake [122]

Established in 1847, Brown's engineering program is the oldest in the Ivy League and the third oldest civilian engineering program in the country.[g]  In 1916, Brown's departments of electrical, mechanical, and civil engineering were merged into a single Division of Engineering. In 2010 the division was elevated to a School of Engineering.[123]

Engineering at Brown is especially interdisciplinary. The school is organized without the traditional departments or boundaries found at most schools and follows a model of connectivity between disciplines—including biology, medicine, physics, chemistry, computer science, the humanities, and the social sciences. The school practices an innovative clustering of faculties in which engineers team with non-engineers to bring a convergence of ideas.

Student teams have launched two CubeSats  with the support of the School of Engineering. Brown Space Engineering developed EQUiSat  a 1U satellite, and another interdisciplinary team developed SBUDNIC  a 3U satellite.[124] [125]

IE Brown Executive MBA Dual Degree Program [ edit ]

Since 2009, Brown has developed an Executive MBA program in conjunction with one of the leading Business Schools in Europe, IE Business School  in Madrid. This relationship has since strengthened resulting in both institutions offering a dual degree program.[126]  In this partnership, Brown provides its traditional coursework while IE provides most of the business-related subjects making a differentiated alternative program to other Ivy League's EMBAs.[127]  The cohort typically consists of 25–30 EMBA candidates from some 20 countries.[128]  Classes are held in Providence, Madrid , Cape Town  and Online.

Pembroke Hall (1897) houses the administrative offices of the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women .

The Pembroke Center [ edit ] Main article: Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women

The Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women was established at Brown in 1981 by Joan Wallach Scott  as an interdisciplinary research center on gender.[129]  The center is named for Pembroke College, Brown's former women's college, and is affiliated with Brown's Sarah Doyle Women's Center . The Pembroke Center supports Brown's undergraduate concentration in Gender and Sexuality Studies , post-doctoral research fellowships, the annual Pembroke Seminar, and other academic programs. It also manages various collections, archives, and resources, including the Elizabeth Weed Feminist Theory Papers and the Christine Dunlap Farnham Archive.

The Graduate School [ edit ] Main article: Brown University Graduate School Sayles Hall  on the Main Green

Brown introduced graduate courses in the 1870s and granted its first advanced degrees in 1888. The university established a Graduate Department in 1903 and a full Graduate School in 1927.[130]

With an enrollment of approximately 2,600 students, the school currently offers 33 and 51 master's and doctoral programs, respectively. The school additionally offers a number of fifth-year master's programs.[131]  Overall, admission to the Graduate School is most competitive with an acceptance rate averaging at approximately 9 percent in recent years.

Carney Institute for Brain Science [ edit ] Main article: Carney Institute for Brain Science

The Robert J. & Nancy D. Carney Institute for Brain Science is Brown's cross-departmental neuroscience research institute . The institute's core focus areas include brain-computer interfaces  and computational neuroscience ; additional areas of focus include research into mechanisms of cell death  with the interest of developing therapies for neurodegenerative diseases .

The Carney Institute was founded by John Donoghue  in 2009 as the Brown Institute for Brain Science and renamed in 2018 in recognition of a $100 million gift.[132]  The donation, one of the largest in the university's history, established the institute as one of the best-endowed university neuroscience programs in the country.[133]

Alpert Medical School [ edit ] Main article: Alpert Medical School The Alpert Medical School  building on Richmond Street

Established in 1811, Brown's Alpert Medical School is the fourth oldest medical school in the Ivy League.[10] [h]

In 1827, medical instruction was suspended by President Francis Wayland  after the program's faculty declined to follow a new policy requiring students to live on campus. The program was reorganized in 1972; the first M.D. degrees from the new Program in Medicine were awarded to a graduating class of 58 students in 1975. In 1991, the school was officially renamed the Brown University School of Medicine, then renamed once more to Brown Medical School in October 2000.[134]  In January 2007, entrepreneur and philanthropist Warren Alpert  donated $100 million to the school. In recognition of the gift, the school's name was changed to the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

In 2020, U.S. News & World Report  ranked Brown's medical school the 9th most selective in the country, with an acceptance rate of 2.8%.[135]  U.S. News  ranks the school 38th for research and 35th for primary care.[136]

Brown's medical school is known especially for its eight-year Program in Liberal Medical Education  (PLME), an eight-year combined baccalaureate-M.D. medical program. Inaugurated in 1984, the program is one of the most selective and renowned programs of its type in the country, offering admission to only 2% of applicants in 2021.[137]

Since 1976, the Early Identification Program (EIP) has encouraged Rhode Island residents to pursue careers in medicine by recruiting sophomores from Providence College , Rhode Island College , the University of Rhode Island , and Tougaloo College . In 2004, the school once again began to accept applications from premedical students at other colleges and universities via AMCAS  like most other medical schools. The medical school also offers M.D./PhD, M.D./M.P.H.  and M.D./M.P.P.  dual degree programs.

School of Public Health [ edit ] Main article: Brown University School of Public Health The primary building of the Brown University School of Public Health  viewed from across the Providence River

Brown's School of Public Health grew out of the Alpert Medical School's Department of Community Health and was officially founded in 2013 as an independent school.[138] [139]  The school issues undergraduate (A.B., Sc.B.), graduate (M.P.H., Sc.M., A.M.), doctoral (Ph.D.), and dual-degrees (M.P.H./M.P.A., M.D./M.P.H.).[140]

Online programs [ edit ]

The Brown University School of Professional Studies currently offers blended learning  Executive master's degrees in Healthcare Leadership , Cyber Security, and Science and Technology Leadership.[141]  The master's degrees are designed to help students who have a job and life outside of academia to progress in their respective fields. The students meet in Providence every 6–7 weeks for a weekly seminar each trimester.

The university has also invested in MOOC  development starting in 2013, when two courses, Archeology's Dirty Little Secrets  and The Fiction of Relationship , both of which received thousands of students.[142]  However, after a year of courses, the university broke its contract with Coursera  and revamped its online persona and MOOC development department. By 2017, the university released new courses on edx , two of which were The Ethics of Memory  and Artful Medicine: Art's Power to Enrich Patient Care . In January 2018, Brown published its first "game-ified" course called Fantastic Places, Unhuman Humans: Exploring Humanity Through Literature , which featured out-of-platform games to help learners understand materials, as well as a story-line that immerses users into a fictional world to help characters along their journey.[143]

Admissions and financial aid [ edit ]
Undergraduate admissions statistics
2021 entering class[144] Change vs. 2016[145]
Admit rate4%(  +0.67)
Yield rate 62.05%(  +1.25)
Test scores middle 50%
SAT  EBRW750–780
SAT  Math750–790
ACT  Composite34–36
High school GPA †
Top 10%95%(  +4.7)
  • †Among students whose school ranked

Undergraduate [ edit ]

Undergraduate admission to Brown University is considered "most selective" by U.S. News & World Report . [146]  For the undergraduate class of 2026, Brown received 50,649 applications—the largest applicant pool in the university's history and a 9% increase from the prior year. Of these applicants, 2,560 were admitted for an acceptance rate of 5.0%, the lowest in the university's history.[147]

In 2021, the university reported a yield rate of 69%.[148]  For the academic year 2019–20 the university received 2,030 transfer applications, of which 5.8% were accepted.[149]

Brown's admissions policy is currently stipulated need-blind  for all domestic first-year applicants,[150]  but will be extended to international first-year applicants starting with the Class of 2029.[151]  In 2017, Brown announced that loans would be eliminated from all undergraduate financial aid awards starting in 2018–2019, as part of a new $30 million campaign called the Brown Promise .[152]  In 2016–17, the university awarded need-based scholarships worth $120.5 million. The average need-based award for the class of 2020 was $47,940.[153]

Graduate [ edit ]

In 2017, the Graduate School accepted 11% of 9,215 applicants.[154]  In 2021, Brown received a record 948 applications for roughly 90 spots in its Master of Public Health Degree.[155]

In 2020, U.S. News  ranked Brown's Warren Alpert Medical School  the 9th most selective in the country, with an acceptance rate of 2.8 percent.[156]

Rankings [ edit ]
Academic rankings
National
ARWU [157] 38
Forbes [158] 15
U.S. News & World Report [159] (tie)
Washington Monthly [160] 43
WSJ  / College Pulse [161] 67
Global
ARWU [162] 98
QS [163] 73 (tie)
THE [164] 64
U.S. News & World Report [165] 129 (tie)
USNWR graduate school rankings (2022)[166]
Engineering53
Medicine (Primary Care)14
Medicine (Research)35
USNWR departmental rankings (2022)[166]
Biological Sciences37
Biostatistics13
Chemistry62
Computer Science26
Earth Sciences12
Economics20
English13
History18
Mathematics14
Physics28
Political Science41
Psychology23
Public Affairs62
Public Health16
Sociology20

Brown University is accredited  by the New England Commission of Higher Education .[167]  For their 2021 rankings, The Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education ranked Brown 5th in the "Best Colleges 2021" edition.[168]

The Forbes  magazine annual ranking of "America's Top Colleges 2022"—which ranked 600 research universities, liberal arts colleges and service academies—ranked Brown 19th overall and 18th among universities.[169]

U.S. News & World Report  ranked Brown 9th among national universities in its 2023 edition.[170]  The 2022 edition also ranked Brown 2nd for undergraduate teaching, 25th in Most Innovative Schools, and 14th in Best Value Schools.[171]

Washington Monthly  ranked Brown 40th in 2022 among 442 national universities in the U.S. based on its contribution to the public good, as measured by social mobility, research, and promoting public service.[172]

In 2022, U.S. News & World Report  ranks Brown 129th globally.

In 2014, Forbes  magazine ranked Brown 7th on its list of "America's Most Entrepreneurial Universities."[173]  The Forbes  analysis looked at the ratio of "alumni and students who have identified themselves as founders and business owners on LinkedIn" and the total number of alumni and students. LinkedIn particularized the Forbes  rankings, placing Brown third (between MIT  and Princeton ) among "Best Undergraduate Universities for Software Developers at Startups." LinkedIn's methodology involved a career-path examination of "millions of alumni profiles" in its membership database.[174]

In 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2021 the university produced the most Fulbright  recipients of any university in the nation.[175] [176] [177]  Brown has also produced the 7th most Rhodes Scholars of all colleges and universities in the United States.[178]

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