Brown University located in historic Providence, Rhode Island and founded in 1764, is the seventh-oldest college in the United States.
Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence.
The undergraduate acceptance rate (8.6 percent for the class of 2018) is among the country's most selective. At its foundation in 1764, Brown was the first college in America to assert in its charter that "Sectarian differences of opinions, shall not make any Part of the Public and Classical Instruction."