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Brown University
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Coat of arms of the University
Latin: Universitas Brunensis
Motto In Deo Speramus (Latin)
Motto in English
In God We Hope
Type Private
Established 1764
Endowment $2.963 billion (2016)
President Christina Hull Paxson
Provost Richard M. Locke
Academic staff
Total: 731 full-time
210 Humanities
153 Life/Medical Sciences
186 Physical Sciences
182 Social Sciences
Students 9,073 (Fall 2015)
Undergraduates 6,320 (Fall 2015)
Postgraduates 2,230 (Fall 2015)
Other students
523 (medical)
Location Providence, RI, U.S.
41°49′34″N 71°24′12″W / 41.8262°N 71.4032°W / 41.8262; -71.4032Coordinates: 41°49′34″N 71°24′12″W / 41.8262°N 71.4032°W / 41.8262; -71.4032
Campus Urban
143 acres (579,000 m²)
Newspaper The Brown Daily Herald
Colors Brown, Red, White
              
Athletics NCAA Division IIvy League
ECAC Hockey, EARC/EAWRC
Nickname Bears
Mascot Bruno the Bear
Affiliations
Website brown.edu
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University rankings
National
ARWU 45
Forbes 8
U.S. News & World Report 14
Washington Monthly 49
Global
ARWU 90
QS 49
Times 51
U.S. News & World Report 85

Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States, 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 was established in 1847 and was the first in the Ivy League. It was one of the early doctoral-granting U.S. institutions in the late 19th century, adding master and doctoral studies in 1887. Brown's New Curriculum is sometimes referred to in education theory as the Brown Curriculum and 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. In 1971, Brown's coordinate women's institution Pembroke College was fully merged into the university. Pembroke Campus now operates as a place for dorms and classrooms.

Undergraduate admissions is very selective, with an acceptance rate of 9 percent for the class of 2020, according to 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 (which includes the IE Brown Executive MBA program). Brown's international programs are organized through the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, and the university 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.


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