Brown University

University, Ivy LeaguePrivate

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Motto	In Deo Speramus (Latin)
Headquarters	Rhode Island, USA
Type	Private
Other name	Bears
Ivy League, major deep state hub

Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, it is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution.

University Hall, Brown's oldest building, was constructed in 1770 and is on the National Register of Historic Places

Admissions is among the most selective in the United States, with an acceptance rate of about 7% for Fall 2019.

As of November 2019, 8 Nobel Prize winners have been affiliated with Brown University as alumni, faculty, or researchers, as well as five National Humanities Medalists and 10 National Medal of Science laureates. Other notable alumni include 24 Pulitzer Prize winners, eleven billionaires, John D. Rockefeller Jr. (1897), Orlando Bravo (1970), Barry Sternlicht (1982), Brad Jacobs (1979), Andres Santo Domingo (2000), Aneel Bhusri (1988), Glenn Creamer (1984), Ted Turner, Jonathan M. Nelson (1977), Sidney Frank, Chung Yong-jin (1994) one U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice, four U.S. Secretaries of State, 54 members of the United States Congress, 57 Rhodes Scholars, 52 Gates Cambridge Scholars, 50 Marshall Scholars, and 14 MacArthur Genius Fellows.

The Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs

The Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs is a center for the study of global issues and public affairs and is one of the leading institutes of its type in the country. The institute was initially endowed by Thomas Watson, Jr., Brown class of 1937, former Ambassador to the Soviet Union, and longtime president of IBM. Institute faculty includes, or formerly included, Italian prime minister and European Commission president Romano Prodi, Brazilian president Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Chilean president Ricardo Lagos Escobar, Mexican novelist and statesman Carlos Fuentes, Brazilian statesman and United Nations commission head Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro, Indian foreign minister and ambassador to the United States Nirupama Rao, American diplomat and Dayton Peace Accords author Richard Holbrooke (Brown '62), and Sergei Khrushchev, editor of the papers of his father Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union.

The institute's curricular interest is organized into the principal themes of development, security, and governance—with further focuses on globalization, economic uncertainty, security threats, environmental degradation, and poverty. Three Brown undergraduate concentrations (majors) are hosted by the Watson Institute—Development Studies, International Relations, and Public Policy. Graduate programs offered at the Watson Institute include the Graduate Program in Development (Ph.D.) and the Public Policy Program (M.P.A). The institute also offers Post Doctoral, professional development and global outreach programming. In support of these programs, the Institute houses various centers, including the Brazil Initiative, Brown-India Initiative, China Initiative, Middle East Studies center, The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) and the Taubman Center for Public Policy.