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Brown University

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Brown University is a private Ivy League research university on College Hill in Providence, Rhode Island, founded in 1764 as one of nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution, making it the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States. It was the first American college to codify that admission and instruction of students was to be equal regardless of religious affiliation, and since 1969 it has operated an Open Curriculum with no mandatory general education distribution requirements. Brown comprises the College, a Graduate School, the Alpert Medical School, and schools of engineering and public health, and it houses the oldest applied mathematics program in the country and the oldest engineering program in the Ivy League.

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Founded Year
1764 1
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United States 1
City
Providence 1
Ownership Type
Private 1
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Institution Type
University 1
Statistics
Enrollment Size
10,338 2
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Why is Brown University called Brown?

It was renamed in 1804 after a $5000 gift from Nicholas Brown Jr.

Brown was founded in 1764 as Rhode Island College. In 1803 its corporation voted that a donation of $5,000, made within a year, would entitle the donor to name the college. In 1804 the college treasurer, Nicholas Brown Jr., committed a gift of five thousand dollars to establish a professorship of oratory and belles lettres, and the corporation voted on the same day that the college be called Brown University.
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Columbia University, Institutions and Systems

Fellow member of the nine colonial colleges chartered in British North America before the American Revolution.

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Harvard University, Institutions and Systems

Fellow member of the nine colonial colleges chartered in British North America before the American Revolution.

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Princeton University, Institutions and Systems

Fellow member of the nine colonial colleges chartered in British North America before the American Revolution.

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University of Pennsylvania, Institutions and Systems

Fellow member of the nine colonial colleges chartered in British North America before the American Revolution.

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Yale University, Institutions and Systems

Fellow member of the nine colonial colleges chartered in British North America before the American Revolution.

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Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in the College Hill neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island, United States.
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Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in the College Hill neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island, United States.
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    The university is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764.
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    Brown University is a private Ivy League research university on College Hill in Providence, Rhode Island, founded in 1764 as one of nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution, making it the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States.
  • Associated With: Harvard University
  • Associated With: Yale University
  • Associated With: Princeton University
  • Associated With: University of Pennsylvania
  • Associated With: Columbia University
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2. Wikidata: Brown University
  • Wikidata Q49114, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
  • Wikidata Q49114, class allow-list match (w-bbfill-education6-0927)
  • Wikidata Q49114 P2196 (number of students), latest-time (w-bbfill-education6-0927)
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