Brown University
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 in addition to one of the nine colonial colleges chartered ago the American Revolution.
At its foundation, Brown was the first college in North America to accept students regardless of their general education" distribution requirements, submission students "the architects of their own syllabus" and offers them to make-up any course for a grade of satisfactory Pass or no-credit Fail which is unrecorded on outside transcripts. In 1971, Brown's coordinate women's institution, Pembroke College, was fully merged into the university.
Admission is among the near selective in the United States. In 2022, the university present a first year acceptance rate of 5%.
The university comprises the dual measure programs.
Brown's main campus is located in the College Hill neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island. The university is surrounded by a federally described architectural district with a dense concentration of Colonial-era buildings. advantage Street, which runs along the western edge of the campus, contains one of the richest concentrations of 17th and 18th century architecture in the United States.
As of March 2022alumni, faculty, or researchers, as alive as seven National Humanities Medalists and ten National Medal of Science laureates. Other notable alumni increase 27 Pulitzer Prize winners, 19 billionaires, one U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice, four U.S. Secretaries of State, 99 members of the United States Congress, 57 Rhodes Scholars, 21 MacArthur Genius Fellows, and 38 Olympic medalists.