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Founded as “The College in the English Colony of Rhode
Island and Providence Plantations” in 1764, Brown University is one of the
private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United
State. It is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the USA and
one of the nine Colonial Colleges set up before American Revolution in the
history.
Brown was the first college in the USA to accept all kind of
students not showing biasness in religious prospective. Brown’s engineering
program, established in the year of 1847, was the first what is now best known
as the Ivy League in United State. Brown's New Curriculum—sometimes referred to
in education theory as the Brown Curriculum—was adopted by faculty vote in 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 no-credit. In 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 for the class of 2019. The
University comprises The College, 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 Island School of Design. The Brown/RISD
Dual Degree Program, offered in conjunction 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
States".
Prominent alumni include current chair of the Federal
Reserve Janet Yellen '67 and president of the World Bank Jim Yong Kim '82.
Brown has produced 7 Nobel Prize winners, 57 Rhodes Scholars, five National
Humanities Medalists, eight billionaire graduates, and 10 National Medal of
Science laureates, and has also produced Fulbright, Marshall, and Mitchell
scholars.
Brown offers highly recognized academic degrees of
bachelor’s, master’s, as well as doctoral through its schools and colleges.
Brown School of Engineering & School of Law are very famous in all over the
world. Brown offers online degrees
programs through its different colleges and schools giving highly interacting,
participating and researched –full coaching.
Academics:
Offering approximately 2,000 courses each year in more than
40 academic departments, Brown attracts, challenges, and cultivates independent
thinkers with the power and drive to create personally meaningful lives.
Undergraduates at Brown are responsible for designing
individualized programs of study across multiple departments. A strong advising
network helps students engage fully with the Brown curriculum.
Brown’s Graduate School offers 51 doctoral programs and 28
master’s programs, including those of the School of Engineering, the School of
Public Health, and the School of Professional Studies. The Warren Alpert
Medical School awards some 90 medical degrees per year, and, along with its 7
affiliated teaching hospitals, is a hub of research.
Graduate students at Brown work side-by-side with faculty
who are leaders in their fields. The Open Graduate Programs project allows
select Brown doctoral students to pursue a master’s degree in a secondary
field.
Brown students are active learners. A large number of
centers and institutes fuel their research. Study abroad programs and
international collaborations reflect Brown’s commitment to promoting global
learning.
Students passionate about public service turn to the Swearer
Center for ways to take constructive action locally and around the world.
Learning is supported by a library system housing 6.8
million print items, plus a multitude of electronic resources and expanding
digital archives.
The Career Development Center helps students plan for
futures that make productive use of their academic achievements.
Other programs include Pre-College Programs for high school
students; andUndergraduate Summer Session, open to Brown and visiting
undergraduates.
Brown also offers free, non-credit, online courses open to
learners from around the world. These courses, offered in partnership with
Coursera, develop students' knowledge and understanding of the liberal arts and
sciences while providing a window into Brown's exceptional learning
environment.
Open learning follows in the spirit of the Brown mission to
“serve the community, the nation, and the world by discovering, communicating,
and preserving knowledge and understanding in a spirit of free inquiry.”
Guided by the Plan for Academic Enrichment, Brown continues
to set new goals for distinction in education. The July 2010 formation of the
School of Engineering and the launch of a School of Public Health in 2013 are
direct results of these efforts.
Sources: Website of Brown University
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