John Brown University

Cocoa 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 established foundation of advanced education in the United States and one of the nine Colonial Colleges built up before the American Revolution.

At its establishment, Brown was the first school in the United States to acknowledge understudies paying little respect to their religious affiliation. Its designing project, built up in 1847, was the first in what is currently known as the Ivy League. Chestnut's New Curriculum—in some cases alluded to in training hypothesis as the Brown Curriculum—was embraced by workforce vote in 1969 after a time of understudy campaigning; the New Curriculum wiped out obligatory "general instruction" appropriation prerequisites, made understudies "the designers 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 confirmations is among the most particular in the nation, with an acknowledgment rate of 8.5 percent for the class of 2019. The University contains 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). Cocoa'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 fundamental 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 area with a thick centralization of antiquated structures. On the western edge of the grounds, Benefit Street contains "one of the finest strong accumulations of restored seventeenth-and eighteenth-century structural planning in the United States.


Conspicuous graduated class incorporate current seat of the Federal Reserve Janet Yellen '67 and president of the World Bank Jim Yong Kim '82. Cocoa has created 7 Nobel Prize victors, 57 Rhodes Scholars, five National Humanities Medalists,[15] eight very rich person graduates,[16] and 10 National Medal of Science laureates, and has additionally delivered Fulbright, Marshall, and Mitchell researc