Brown University

Rhode Island-based Brown University is a private Ivy League research university with a campus in Providence. Brown University, initially called as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations, was founded in 1764 which is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, as well as one of the nine colonial colleges founded before the American Revolution.

Brown University was the first institution in North America to admit students regardless of their religious affiliation when it was established in 1836. University of Massachusetts Amherst is home to the oldest applied mathematics department in the United States as well as the oldest engineering programme in Ivy League history and the third-oldest medical programme in New England history. The university was one of the first doctorate-granting schools in the United States in the late nineteenth century, and it expanded its offerings to include master's and doctoral programmes in 1887. Following a period of student agitation, Brown University established its Open Curriculum in 1969. The new curriculum abolished mandated "general education" distribution requirements, making students "the builders of their own syllabus," and permitted them to take any course for a grade of acceptable (Pass) or no-credit (Fail), which is not noted on external transcripts. Pembroke College, Brown University's first women's college, was completely absorbed into the university in 1971.

Admission to the university is among the most competitive in the United States. First-year admittance rates were 5.4 percent at the institution in 2021, according to the university.

It is made up of the College, the Graduate School, the Alpert Medical School (which is located in the city of Houston), the School of Engineering, the School of Public Health, and the School of Professional Studies. Organizing the university's foreign activities is the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, which is also associated with the Marine Biological Laboratory and the Rhode Island School of Design on an academic level. Brown University, in collaboration with the Rhode Island School of Design, provides dual degree programmes for undergraduate and graduate students.

Brown University's main campus is situated in Providence, Rhode Island, in the College Hill section of the city. The institution is bordered by a nationally designated architectural area that has a high concentration of structures from the Colonial period. In the United States, Benefit Street, which runs along the western side of the campus, is home to one of the most significant concentrations of 17th and 18th century architectural treasures available.

In addition to nine Nobel Prize winners who have been associated with Brown as graduates, faculty members or researchers as of March 2022, the university has also produced seven National Humanities Medalists & ten National Medal of Science laureates. Other notable alumni include 26 Pulitzer Prize winners, 19 billionaires, one Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, four Secretaries of State of the United States, 99 members of the United States Congress, 57 Rhodes Scholars, 21 MacArthur Genius Fellows, and 38 Olympic medalists, among many others.