#60 Brown University
Basic Infomation::
World Position: No. 60
Nature of University: Private
Research Findings: Very High
Number of students: 9,652
Number of Teachers: 1,389
Number of international students: 2,002
Overview:
Brown University is a private Ivy League research university located in Providence, Rhode Island. Founded in 1764, Brown University is the seventh oldest higher education institution in the United States and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Located in Providence, the capital of Rhode Island, USA. It is the college of the British Rhode Island colony and Providence Plantation. It is also one of the eight world-famous Ivy League schools and the sister school of the Rhode Island School of Design, the world's top art school.
At the beginning of its establishment, Brown University was the first college in North America to accept students regardless of their religious beliefs. The university's medical program is ranked third in New England, and its engineering program is ranked first in the Ivy League schools. The university was one of the earliest institutions to award doctoral degrees in the United States at the end of the 19th century. In 1887, master and doctoral studies were added. [8] In 1969, after a period of student lobbying, Brown University adopted open courses. The new curriculum abolished the mandatory "general education" allocation requirements, making students "designers of their own syllabus" and allowing them to take any courses with a pass (pass) or no credits (fail). These grades Not recorded on external transcripts. In 1971, Pembroke College, Brown's coordinating women's institution, was fully integrated into the university.
The university includes the College, Graduate School, Alpert School of Medicine, School of Engineering, School of Public Health, and School of Professional Studies. Brown’s international projects are organized through the Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs, which is academically affiliated with the Marine Biology Laboratory and the Rhode Island School of Design. Brown cooperates with the Rhode Island School of Design to provide undergraduate and postgraduate dual degree programs.
The main campus of Brown University is located near College Hill in Providence, Rhode Island. The university is surrounded by a federally protected building area with dense colonial-era buildings. Ferry Street, which runs along the western edge of the campus, is one of the most concentrated areas of 17th and 18th century architecture in the United States.
Brown University is one of the universities with the lowest acceptance rate in the United States. It has always maintained a small and refined elite education. In 2021, the university reported an acceptance rate of 5.4%. But among such a small number of teachers and students, 17 billionaires were born, 8 Nobel Prize winners, 32 Pulitzer Prize winners, 1 Fields Medal winner, and 1 Wolf Prize winner. , 10 National Medals of Science, 5 National Medals of Humanities, 57 Rhodes Scholars, 15 MacArthur Genius Fellows, 4 Emmy Award winners, 1 Oscar winner, 1 Grammy Award winner, 1 Tony Award winners, 1 Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 4 U.S. Secretary of State, 99 U.S. Congressmen, and 37 Olympic medalists.
Famous alumni of Brown University include John Fitzgerald Kennedy II, son of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy, former U.S. Secretary of State and Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, McKinsey founder Marvin Bauer, and Apple Former CEO John Sculley, "Father of Geodynamics in China" Wang Ren, former President of Zhejiang University Yang Wei, the second-generation head of the Rockefeller family John Davidson Rockefeller Jr., IBM pioneer Thomas Watson Jr., Qing Yukichi Fukuzawa, founder of Ongizuk University, [28], Horace Mann, the "father of public education" in the United States, Brian Monihan, CEO of Bank of America, [24], the first female Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, CNN Founder Ted Turner, BlackBerry Chairman Cheng Shouzong, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, former President of the World Bank Jin Yong, Emma Watson, etc.
Brown University is well-known for its unique teaching philosophy and superb top undergraduate education, surpassing Harvard and Yale and other prestigious universities to rank first in the U.S. News U.S. Undergraduate Education Rankings in 2021; U.S. News U.S. News in 2021 is the 14th Best University in the U.S. ; 2021QS American University is ranked 19th. It is ranked 60th in the world in the QS World University Rankings.
About Undergraduate:
Undergraduates pursue bachelor’s degrees in 81 concentrations, ranging from Egyptology to cognitive neuroscience. Anything’s possible at Brown—the university’s commitment to undergraduate freedom means students must take responsibility as architects of their courses of study.
About Postgraduate:
Brown University has 51 doctoral programs and 32 master’s programs. The broad scope of options vary from interdisciplinary opportunities in molecular pharmacology and physiology to a master’s program in acting and directing through the Brown/Trinity Repertory Consortium.
