Brown University
private university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States
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Summary
Brown University is a private university[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of private university entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (18,737 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Member of: Ivy League[3], ORCID, Inc.[4], Digital Library Federation[5], Association of Research Libraries[6], Consortium of Social Science Associations[7], ArXiv[8], Northeast University Semiconductor Network[9], Association of American Universities[10], Association of American Colleges and Universities[11], American Council on Education[12], National Humanities Alliance[13], Higher Education Leadership Initiative for Open Scholarship[14], Coalition for Networked Information[15], Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities[16]
- Located in the administrative territorial entity: Providence[17]
- Country: United States[18]
- Instance of: research university[19], Colonial Colleges[20], private not-for-profit educational institution[21], academic publisher[22]
- Founder: James Manning[23], John Brown[24], Moses Brown[25], Morgan Edwards[26]
- Named after: Nicholas Brown, Jr.[27]
- Headquarters location: Providence[28]
- Coat of arms: Coat of arms of Brown University[29]
- Postal code: 02912[30]
- Child organization or unit: Watson School for International and Public Affairs[31], Women Writers Project[32], Brown University Library[33], Brown University Graduate School[34], Brown University School of Engineering[35], Ladd Observatory[36], Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World[37], Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women[38], Alpert Medical School[39], Brown University School of Public Health[40], Annenberg Institute at Brown University[41]
- Commons category: Brown University[42]
- Industry: higher education[43]
- Has part(s): Brown University Library[44], Brown University Department of Physics[45]
- Inception: 1765[46]
- Significant event: mixed-sex education[47]
- Official website: https://www.brown.edu/[48]
- Topic's main category: Category:Brown University[49], Category:Brown University faculty[50]
- Commons gallery: Brown University[51]
- Employees: 4654[52]
- Described by source: The American Cyclopædia[53]
- Ranking: 99[54], 98[55], 84[56], 90[57], 75[58], 74[59]
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Brands and Namesakes
Things named for Brown University include Brown Corpus[60], a text corpus[61] and Brunonia Glacier[62], a glacier[63], in United Kingdom[64].
Why It Matters
Brown University has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[65] It is known by 30 alternative names across languages and contexts.[66]
Entities named for it include Brown Corpus[60], a text corpus[61] and Brunonia Glacier[62], a glacier[63], in United Kingdom[64].