Chestnut University is a private Ivy League research college in Providence, Rhode Island. Established in 1764 as "The College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations," Brown is the seventh-most seasoned foundation of advanced education in the United States and one of the nine Colonial Colleges set up before the American Revolution. At its establishment, Brown was the first school in the United States to acknowledge understudies paying little heed to their religious alliance. Its building system, set up in 1847, was the first in what is presently known as the Ivy League. Cocoa's New Curriculum—at times alluded to in training hypothesis as the Brown Curriculum—was received by workforce vote in 1969 after a time of understudy campaigning; the New Curriculum disposed of compulsory "general instruction" conveyance prerequisites, made understudies "the engineers of their own syllabus," and permitted them to take any course for an evaluation of agreeable or unrecorded no-credit. In 1971, Brown's organize ladies' establishment, Pembroke College, was completely converged into the college.
Undergrad affirmations is among the most particular in the nation, with an acknowledgment rate of 8.5 percent for the class of 2019.The University involves The College, the Graduate School, Alpert Medical School, the School of Engineering, the School of Public Health, and the School of Professional Studies (which incorporates the IE Brown Executive MBA program). Chestnut's universal projects are sorted out through the Watson Institute for International Studies, and is scholastically associated with the Marine Biological Laboratory and the Rhode Island School of Design. The Brown/RISD Dual Degree Program, offered in conjunction with the Rhode Island School of Design, is a five-year course that recompenses degrees from both establishments.
Chestnut's primary grounds is situated in the College Hill Historic District in the city of Providence, the third biggest city in New England. The University's neighborhood is a governmentally recorded design region with a thick convergence of old structures. On the western edge of the grounds, Benefit Street contains "one of the finest durable accumulations of restored seventeenth-and eighteenth-century construction modeling in the United States".
Noticeable graduated class incorporate current seat of the Federal Reserve Janet Yellen '67 and president of the World Bank Jim Yong Kim '82. Chestnut has created 7 Nobel Prize champs, 57 Rhodes Scholars, five National Humanities Medalists,[15] eight extremely rich person graduates, and 10 National Medal of Science laureates, and has likewise delivered Fulbright, Marshall, and Mitchell research