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 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, established in 1847, was the first in what is now known as the Ivy League. Brown's New  referred to in education theory as the Brown  adopted by faculty 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 n 1971, Brown's coordinate women's institution, Pembroke College, was fully merged into the university.

Undergraduate admissions is among the most selective in the country, with an acceptance rate of 8.5 percent  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

 Studies, and is academically affiliated with the Marine Biological Laboratory and the Rhode with the Rhode Island School of Design, is a five-year course that awards degrees from both institutions.

Brown's main campus is located in the College Hill Historic District in the city of Providence, the third largest city in New England. The University's neighborhood is a federally listed architectural district with a dense concentration of ancient buildings.

 On the western edge of the campus, Benefit Street contains "one of the finest cohesive collections of restored seventeenth- and eighteenth-century architecture in the United State

Prominent alumni include current chair of the Federal Reserve Janet and president of the World Bank Jim Yong Kim '82. Brown has produced 7 Nobel Prize winners, 57 Humanities Medalists, eight billionaire graduates and 10 National Medal of Science laureates, and has also produced Fulbright, Marshall, and Mitchell scholars