Brown University

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Brown University is an American university, which is located in Providence, the capital of the U.S. state of Rhode Iceland. Brown is one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in the United States. She is one of eight so-called Ivy League universities in the United States. The university has a fortune of 2.3 billion U.S. dollars. Currently here are enrolled 7595 students. The Brown University is a member of the Association of American Universities, an existing association of leading research-intensive since 1900, North American universities.

History

The University was founded in 1764 by the Baptist pastor James Manning as Rhode Iceland College in Warren, Rhode Iceland, making it the third oldest university in New England and the seventh oldest university in the United States. In 1770, the company moved to its present location to Providence. 1804, the college became a university and was renamed in honor of Nicholas Brown, Jr., a 1768er graduates of the institution, had left following his service as treasurer of the College the financial means to further establishment of professorships in Brown University. Exactly 100 years later, the research center of the John Carter Brown Library was erected in honor of Nicholas Brown, Jr..

Organization

Faculties

• College ( 100 courses)
• Graduate School ( 50 courses)
• Medicine ( Brown Medical School)

College

A total of 5821 undergraduate students (ie students who aspire to a bachelor's degree ) studying at Brown College, the heart of the university. It offered more than 100 courses. In addition, students may apply to take in a self-created study their degree.

The Brown University is one of the most selective universities in the United States. In the pivotal round 2010/11 ( start of studies in the fall of 2011), applied for 30.946 students, of which only 8.7% were accepted. 1157 candidates were valedictorian in her high school, but received just 29 % of which is licensed to Brown University. 92 % of all accepted candidates were among the top 10% of their high school graduating class.

In the pivotal round in 2007 /08 ( start of studies in the fall of 2008), the University received nearly 21,000 applications - almost 2000 more than the year before. The uptake rate was therefore even lower than the previous year (about 13% ). For applicants without U.S. citizenship recording opportunity was particularly low.

In a college ranking of the Princeton Review, the Brown University was chosen to college with the happiest students. Both parents as well as students at Brown University also made ​​it into the Top 10 Dream Colleges.

Other Facilities

The six libraries provide the facility to the students representing more than six million books available. The graduate students also enjoy research privileges at the neighboring libraries of Harvard and Yale.

Sports

The sports teams at Brown University are the Bears. Coach of the basketball team was up to 2008 Craig Robinson; He is the brother of Michelle Obama and thus brother of U.S. President Barack Obama.

Known graduates

• Faisal bin Al Hussein, Jordanian Prince and IOC member
• Kate Burton, Actress
• Wendy Carlos, composer
• Mary Chapin Carpenter, Country Musician
• Yaya DaCosta, actress, model
• Melinda Crane, American journalist and presenter
• Jeffrey Eugenides, author
• Richard Holbrooke, American Diplomat
• Cory Gibbs, Football Player
• Davis Guggenheim, director
• Todd Haynes, director
• John F. Kennedy Jr., attorney and son of John F. Kennedy
• John Krasinski, actor
• Doug Liman, director
• Laura Linney, Actress
• Lisa Loeb, musician
• Dan Maffei, U.S. Congressman
• Sarah Morris, painter and filmmaker
• James Naughton, actor
• Ted Turner, the media entrepreneur
• Masi Oka, actor
• John D. Rockefeller, Jr., American businessman
• Jessica Capshaw, actress
• Eva Amurri, actress
• Jade Crystal, Actress