Nestled in the historic town of Providence, Rhode Island, Brown University is the seventh-oldest university in the U.S.
This beautiful campus with its surrounding community is a federally listed architectural district with a high concentration of vintage buildings, which gives the urban Brown a small-town collegial atmosphere.
But despite its long history, this Ivy League school has maintained a relatively small, intimate setting with about 9,000 students (including undergraduates, graduate students, and medical school students) and 700-member faculty.
Brown nevertheless boldly marches into the future, filing for close to 100 patents a year, while Brown University Library’s special collections department alone holds over 3 million items of rare and historic value.
The school spends over $170 million each year on research. It is also affiliated with the prestigious Marine Biological Laboratory on Cape Cod, which has 54 Nobel Prizes to its credit.
Brown University’s small student size and impressive $3.2 billion endowment combine to produce a tremendous ratio of resources per student.
