Providence, RI 2912,Top 100 Universities in USA 2014 – Rank – 65, Brown University In Rhode Island

Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island.

Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Brown is the third oldest institution of higher education in New England and seventh oldest in the United States.^[5] The university consists of The College, Graduate School, Alpert Medical School, the School of Engineering, and the Brown University School of Public Health. Brown’s international programs are organized through the Watson Institute for International Studies.

Brown accepts 8.6% of undergraduate applicants, placing it among the world’s most selective universities,^[6] and was the first college in America to accept students regardless of religious affiliation.^[7] The New Curriculum, instituted in 1969, eliminated distribution requirements and allows any course to be taken on a satisfactory/no credit basis. In addition, there are no pluses or minuses in the letter grading system. The school has the oldest undergraduate engineering program in the Ivy League (1847). Pembroke College, Brown’s women’s college, merged with the university in 1971. While Brown is considered a small research university with 713 full-time faculty and 1,947 graduate students, five of its professors and two of its alumni have been honored as Nobel Laureates. The faculty added 100 new professors in the past 10 years under the Boldly Brown campaign.

Completed concentrations of undergraduates by area are Social Sciences (42%), Humanities (26%), Life Sciences (17%), and the Physical Sciences (14%).^[8] Brown’s main campus is located on College Hill on the East Side of Providence. Several of the buildings on the Brown campus from its founding 18th century period through the 20th century offer fine representation of the Georgian style of American colonial era architecture.^[9] The university’s 37 varsity athletic teams are known as the Brown Bears. The school colors areseal brown, cardinal red, and white. Brown’s mascot is the bear, which dates back to 1904.^[10] The costumed mascot named “Bruno” frequently makes appearances at athletic games. People associated with the University are known as Brunonians.

Academics, administration, and ranking

U.S. News & World Report ranked Brown 14th among national universities in its 2014 edition (published in August 2014). Undergraduates make up a larger proportion of the student body at Brown than at any of the other Ivy League universities, leading some Brown administrators to question the fairness of the ranking in light of the University’s focus on undergraduate education.^[63] The same edition also ranked Brown 4th among national universities for undergraduate teaching (tying with Yale University).^[64]

Internationally, in 2012 Brown ranked 51st in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings and the Academic Ranking of World Universities ranked Brown 65th. In 2012, QS World University Rankings placed Brown at 42nd.^[65][66] According to the 2005 paper Academic Ranking of World Universities – Methodologies and Problems by the rankers, Brown’s PCP (performance per-capita) score is equal to that of Columbia University, at 32.1, or 28th in the world.^[67] According to the 2011-2012 Times Higher Education Supplement ranking, Brown University’s citation per capita score, counting for 30% of the overall score, is 93.9, or 32nd of the Top 200 universities, tied with Imperial College London.^[68]

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Brown ranked 7th in the country (between Princeton and Columbia) in a study of high school seniors’ revealed preferences for matriculation conducted by economists at Harvard, Wharton, and Boston University, and published in 2005 by the National Bureau of Economic Research.^[69] The 2008 Center for College Affordability and Productivity (CCAP) ranked Brown 5th in the country among national universities.”^[70]

Brown ranked 5th in the country in Newsweek/The Daily Beast‘s “America’s Brainiac Schools”. The rankings are calculated based on the number of prestigious scholarships, adjusted for population size, won by students, including Rhodes Scholarships, Truman Scholarships, Marshall Scholarships, Gates Scholarships(since 2001), and the number of students receiving Fulbright scholarships (since 1993). Also factored in are scores on admissions tests, admission rates, and the proportion of students in the top 10% of their graduating high school class. The 4 schools besting Brown were, in order of rank, Yale University, Princeton University,Harvard University, and Stanford University.^[76]

As it had in 2007 and 2010, the 2011 Princeton Review email poll of college students ranked Brown 1st in the country for “Happiest Students.”^[77] Brown is 3rd in the country (tied with Stanford) in the number of students awarded Fulbright grants, according to the October 2010 ranking compiled by the Chronicle of Higher Education.^[78]

Graduate programs that ranked the top 10 in the 2010 U.S. News & World Report graduate school rankings included applied mathematics at 5th^[47] and growth economics at 8th.^[59] Those that are ranked in the top 20 are history at 14th,^[58] economics at 17th,^[60] English at 13th,^[57] engineering at 20th, mathematics at 14th,^[48] and computer science at 20th.