Brown University : Academic Degrees, History & Courses

Brown University

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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