*** Welcome to piglix ***

Wien International Scholarship

Brandeis University
Brandeis University seal.svg
Motto אמת ("Emet", Hebrew)
Motto in English
Truth even unto its innermost parts
Type Private
Established October 20, 1948
Endowment $866.8 million (2016)
President Ronald D. Liebowitz
Provost Lisa M. Lynch
Academic staff
361 full-time, 150 part-time
Administrative staff
961 full-time, 216 part-time
Undergraduates 3,588
Postgraduates 2,220
Location Waltham, Massachusetts, U.S.
Campus Suburban, 235 acres (95 ha)
Colors      Blue      White
Athletics NCAA Division III
UAA, ECAC
Nickname Judges
Affiliations AAU
NAICU
AICUM
UPNE
Mascot Ollie the Owl (named for Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.)
Website www.brandeis.edu
Brandeis University Logo.png
University rankings
National
ARWU 72-98
Forbes 74
U.S. News & World Report 34
Washington Monthly 79
Global
ARWU 201-300
QS 400-410
Times 198
U.S. News & World Report 280

Brandeis University /ˈbrænds/ is an American private research university in Waltham, Massachusetts, 9 miles (14 km) west of Boston.

Founded in 1948 as a non-sectarian, coeducational institution sponsored by the Jewish community, Brandeis was established on the site of the former Middlesex University. The university is named after Louis Brandeis, the first Jewish Justice of the U.S Supreme Court. In 2015, it had a total enrollment of 5,532 students on its suburban campus spanning over 235 acres (95 hectares). The institution offers more than 43 majors and 46 minors, and two thirds of the undergraduate classes have 20 students or fewer. It is a member of Association of American Universities since 1985 and the Boston Consortium which allows students to cross-register to attend courses at other institutions including Boston College, Boston University and Tufts University.

The university has a strong liberal arts focus, and a quarter of its students come from outside the United States. Brandeis was tied for 34th among national universities in the United States in the U.S. News & World Report rankings.Forbes listed Brandeis as 36th nationally for research and 37th for entrepreneurship.Times ranks it 185th globally while USA Today ranks it among the top 10 in the country for economics. The university is also home to the Heller School, ranked as one of the top 10 policy schools in the United States. Its alumni include Academy Award-winner Michael Sugar, Pulitzer Prize-winner Thomas Friedman, Nobel Prize laureate Roderick MacKinnon, former Icelandic prime minister Geir Haarde and two MacArthur Fellows.


...
Wikipedia

...