Editing Brown University (section)

==Academics==

===The College===
{{Main|College of Brown University}}
[[File:Brown university robinson hall 2009a crop and straighten.jpg|thumb|Robinson Hall (1878) was designed by [[William R. Walker & Son|Walker and Gould]] in the [[Venetian Gothic architecture|Venetian Gothic]] style to house Brown's library.]]
Founded in 1764, The college is Brown's oldest school. About 7,200 undergraduate students are enrolled in the college {{When|date=November 2022}}, and 81 concentrations are offered. For the graduating class of 2020, the most popular concentrations were Computer Science, Economics, Biology, History, Applied Mathematics, International Relations, and Political Science. A quarter of Brown undergraduates complete more than one concentration before graduating.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Degrees and Completions Factbook |url=https://oir.brown.edu/institutional-data/factbooks/degrees-completions |access-date=March 21, 2021 |website=Brown University Office of Institutional Research |archive-date=March 22, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210322005116/https://oir.brown.edu/institutional-data/factbooks/degrees-completions |url-status=live}}</ref> If the existing programs do not align with their intended curricular interests, undergraduates may design and pursue independent concentrations.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Aratani |first=Lauren |date=2015-04-06 |title=Independent concentrations reflect students' interdisciplinary interests |url=https://www.browndailyherald.com/2015/04/06/independent-concentrations-reflect-students-interdisciplinary-interests/ |access-date=2021-04-10 |website=Brown Daily Herald |language=en-US |archive-date=April 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411024739/https://www.browndailyherald.com/2015/04/06/independent-concentrations-reflect-students-interdisciplinary-interests/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

Around 35 percent {{Update inline|date=November 2022}} of undergraduates pursue graduate or professional study immediately, 60 percent within 5 years, and 80 percent within 10 years.<ref name="admit-facts">{{cite web |author=Brown University |url=https://www.brown.edu/Administration/Admission/gettoknowus/factsandfigures.html |title=Brown University Office of Admission facts and figures |publisher=Brown.edu |access-date=April 1, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120606233934/http://www.brown.edu/Administration/admission/gettoknowus/factsandfigures.html |archive-date=June 6, 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> For the Class of 2009, 56 percent of all undergraduate alumni have since earned graduate degrees. Among undergraduate alumni who go on to receive graduate degrees, the most common degrees earned are J.D. (16%), M.D. (14%), M.A. (14%), M.Sc. (14%), and Ph.D. (11%). The most common institutions from which undergraduate alumni earn graduate degrees are Brown University, [[Columbia University]], and [[Harvard University]].<ref name=":5">{{Cite web |title=Undergraduate Alumni Outcomes |url=https://oir.brown.edu/institutional-data/alumni-outcomes/undergraduate |access-date=2021-04-10 |website=Office of Institutional Research {{!}} Brown University |language=en |archive-date=April 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411024735/https://oir.brown.edu/institutional-data/alumni-outcomes/undergraduate |url-status=live}}</ref>

The highest fields of employment for undergraduate alumni ten years after graduation are education and higher education (15%), medicine (9%), business and finance (9%), law (8%), and computing and technology (7%).<ref name=":5" />

===Brown and RISD===
[[File:List Art Center, Brown University.jpg|thumb|The List Art Center, built 1969–71, designed by [[Philip Johnson]], houses Brown's Department of Visual Art and the [[David Winton Bell Gallery]].]]
Since its 1893 relocation to College Hill, [[Rhode Island School of Design]] (RISD) has bordered Brown to its west. Since 1900, Brown and RISD students have been able to cross-register at the two institutions, with Brown students permitted to take as many as four courses at RISD to count towards their Brown degree.<ref>{{Cite book |last=University |first=Brown |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dvzOAAAAMAAJ |title=Annual Report of the President to the Corporation of Brown University |date=1900 |publisher= |isbn= |location= |pages= |language=en |access-date=January 17, 2021 |archive-date=October 28, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211028221010/https://www.google.com/gen_204?s=web&t=aft&atyp=csi&ei=wB97Yf7_Oc3L0PEPp62a6AU&rt=wsrt.180,aft.1401,prt.964&imn=17&ima=14&imad=14&aftp=14235&bl=VsEN |url-status=live}}</ref> The two institutions partner to provide various student-life services and the two student bodies compose a synergy in the College Hill cultural scene.

==== Dual Degree Program ====
After several years of discussion between the two institutions and several students pursuing dual degrees unofficially, Brown and RISD formally established a five-year dual degree program in 2007, with the first class matriculating in the fall of 2008.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2007-08/07-013.html |title=07-013 (Brown/RISD Joint Degree) |website=www.brown.edu |access-date=2018-07-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070818025835/http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2007-08/07-013.html |archive-date=August 18, 2007 |url-status=live}}</ref> The Brown|RISD Dual Degree Program, among the most selective in the country, offered admission to 20 of the 725 applicants for the class entering in autumn 2020, for an acceptance rate of 2.7%.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kubzansky |first=Will |date=2020-03-26 |title=Brown admits 6.9 percent of applicants amid COVID-19 crisis |url=https://www.browndailyherald.com/2020/03/26/brown-admits-6-9-percent-applicants-amid-covid-19-crisis/ |access-date=2021-03-29 |website=Brown Daily Herald |language=en-US |archive-date=April 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414161011/https://www.browndailyherald.com/2020/03/26/brown-admits-6-9-percent-applicants-amid-covid-19-crisis/ |url-status=live}}</ref> The program combines the complementary strengths of the two institutions, integrating studio art and design at RISD with Brown's academic offerings. Students are admitted to the Dual Degree Program for a course lasting five years and culminating in both the Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) or Bachelor of Science (Sc.B.) degree from Brown and the Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) degree from RISD. Prospective students must apply to the two schools separately and be accepted by separate admissions committees. Their application must then be approved by a third Brown|RISD joint committee.
[[File:Granoff Center (Brown).jpg|thumb|The [[Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts|Granoff Center]], designed by [[Diller Scofidio + Renfro]]<nowiki>, hosts the annual Brown|RISD Dual Degree exhibition</nowiki>.]]
Admitted students spend the first year in residence at RISD completing its first-year Experimental and Foundation Studies curriculum while taking up to three Brown classes. Students spend their second year in residence at Brown, during which students take mainly Brown courses while starting on their RISD major requirements. In the third, fourth, and fifth years, students can elect to live at either school or off-campus, and course distribution is determined by the requirements of each student's unique combination of Brown concentration and RISD major. Program participants are noted for their creative and original approach to cross-disciplinary opportunities, combining, for example, industrial design with engineering, or anatomical illustration with human biology, or philosophy with sculpture, or architecture with urban studies. An annual "BRDD Exhibition" is a well-publicized and heavily attended event, drawing interest and attendees from the broader world of industry, design, the media, and the fine arts.

==== MADE Program ====
In 2020, the two schools announced the establishment of a new joint Master of Arts in Design Engineering program. Abbreviated as MADE, the program intends to combine RISD's programs in industrial design with Brown's programs in engineering. The program is administered through Brown's School of Engineering and RISD's Architecture and Design Division.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Li |first=Aubrey |date=2020-11-04 |title=Brown collaborates with RISD to create new joint master's program |url=https://www.browndailyherald.com/2020/11/04/brown-collaborates-risd-create-new-joint-masters-program/ |access-date=2021-04-10 |website=Brown Daily Herald |language=en-US |archive-date=April 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411024735/https://www.browndailyherald.com/2020/11/04/brown-collaborates-risd-create-new-joint-masters-program/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

===Theatre and playwriting===
[[File:Marcus Aurelius statue and Lyman Hall at Brown University.jpg|thumb|Lyman Hall, built 1890–92, houses the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies.]]
Brown's theatre and playwriting programs are among the best-regarded in the country.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Abramovitch |first=Seth |date=June 10, 2019 |title=Top 25 Graduate Schools for an Acting Degree, Ranked |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |url=https://www.backstage.com/magazine/article/best-mfa-ma-acting-programs-us-uk-4746/#section2 |access-date=April 1, 2021 |archive-date=May 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210508193720/https://www.backstage.com/magazine/article/best-mfa-ma-acting-programs-us-uk-4746/#section2 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-06-08 |title=The Best 25 College Drama Programs Around the World |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/best-25-college-drama-programs-around-world-1296819 |access-date=2021-04-01 |website=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |language=en |archive-date=February 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210210064916/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/best-25-college-drama-programs-around-world-1296819 |url-status=live}}</ref> Six Brown graduates have received the [[Pulitzer Prize for Drama]]; [[Alfred Uhry]] '58, [[Lynn Nottage]] '86, [[Ayad Akhtar]] '93, [[Nilo Cruz]] '94, [[Quiara Alegría Hudes]] '04, and [[Jackie Sibblies Drury]] MFA '04.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Roberts |first=Bella |date=2017-04-27 |title=Pulitzer winners discuss MFA Program at University |url=https://www.browndailyherald.com/2017/04/27/pulitzer-winners-discuss-mfa-program-university/ |access-date=2021-03-29 |website=Brown Daily Herald |language=en-US |archive-date=June 6, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170606053830/http://www.browndailyherald.com/2017/04/27/pulitzer-winners-discuss-mfa-program-university/ |url-status=live}}</ref> In ''[[Theatre Communications Group|American Theater]]'' magazine's 2009 ranking of the most-produced American plays, Brown graduates occupied four of the top five places—Peter Nachtrieb '97, Rachel Sheinkin '89, [[Sarah Ruhl]] '97, and [[Stephen Karam]] '02.<ref>Kathy Borchers, "Brown University turning out one exceptional playwright after another," Associated Press (''Providence Journal''), December 18, 2009; {{cite web |url=http://www.playbill.com/features/article/most-produced-plays |title=Most-Produced Plays - Playbill.com |access-date=2014-08-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140903071900/http://www.playbill.com/features/article/most-produced-plays |archive-date=September 3, 2014 |df=mdy}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.brown.edu/news/2019-04-15/pulitzer |title=Brown alumna, emeritus faculty member capture Pulitzers for drama, poetry {{!}} Brown University |website=www.brown.edu |access-date=2019-04-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190416045850/https://www.brown.edu/news/2019-04-15/pulitzer |archive-date=April 16, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>

The undergraduate concentration encompasses programs in theatre history, performance theory, playwriting, dramaturgy, acting, directing, dance, speech, and technical production. Applications for doctoral and master's degree programs are made through the University Graduate School. Master's degrees in acting and directing are pursued in conjunction with the Brown/Trinity Rep MFA program, which partners with the [[Trinity Repertory Company]], a local [[Regional theater in the United States|regional theatre]].<ref>Molly Lederer, "Trinity Rep is still shining after 50 years," ''East Side Monthly'', Oct. 2013, p. 17</ref> In January 2025, The Brown/Trinity Rep Master of Fine Arts Programs in Acting and Directing indefinitely paused its new student admissions, effectively ending the program.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Brown, Trinity indefinitely pause admissions to MFA program |url=https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025/01/brown-trinity-indefinitely-pause-admissions-to-mfa-program |access-date=2025-04-21 |website=The Brown Daily Herald |language=en-US}}</ref>[[File:Fall view over Brown 2.jpeg|thumb|Aerial view of the Brown University English department]]

===Writing programs===
Writing at Brown—fiction, non-fiction, poetry, playwriting, screenwriting, electronic writing, mixed media, and the undergraduate writing proficiency requirement—is catered for by various centers and degree programs, and a faculty that has long included nationally and internationally known authors. The undergraduate concentration in literary arts offers courses in fiction, poetry, screenwriting, literary hypermedia, and translation. Graduate programs include the fiction and poetry MFA writing programs in the literary arts department and the MFA playwriting program in the theatre arts and performance studies department. The non-fiction writing program is offered in the English department. Screenwriting and cinema narrativity courses are offered in the departments of literary arts and modern culture and media. The undergraduate writing proficiency requirement is supported by the Writing Center.

====Author prizewinners====
Alumni authors take their degrees across the spectrum of degree concentrations, but a gauge of the strength of writing at Brown is the number of major national writing prizes won. To note only winners since the year 2000: [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]]-winners [[Jeffrey Eugenides]] '82 (2003), [[Marilynne Robinson]] '66 (2005), and [[Andrew Sean Greer]] '92 (2018); British [[Orange Prize]]-winners [[Marilynne Robinson]] '66 (2009) and [[Madeline Miller]] '00 (2012); [[Pulitzer Prize for Drama]]-winners [[Nilo Cruz]] '94 (2003), [[Lynn Nottage]] '86 (twice, 2009, 2017), [[Quiara Alegría Hudes]] '04 (2012), [[Ayad Akhtar]] '93 (2013), and [[Jackie Sibblies Drury]] MFA '04 (2019); [[Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography|Pulitzer Prize for Biography]]-winners [[David Kertzer]] '69 (2015) and [[Benjamin Moser]] '98 (2020); [[Pulitzer Prize|Pulitzer Prize for Journalism]]-winners [[James Risen]] '77 (2006), [[Gareth Cook]] '91 (2005), [[Tony Horwitz]] '80 (1995), [[Usha Lee McFarling]] '89 (2007), [[David Rohde]] '90 (1996), [[Kathryn Schulz]] '96 (2016), and [[Alissa J. Rubin]] '80 (2016); [[Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction]]-winner [[James Forman Jr.]] '88 (2018); [[Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction|Pulitzer Prize for History]]-winner [[Marcia Chatelain]] PhD '08 (2021); [[Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction|Pulitzer Prize for Criticism]]-winner [[Salamishah Tillet]] MAT '97 (2022); and [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]]-winner [[Peter Balakian]] PhD '80 (2016)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lutts |first=Chloe |date=2006-07-16 |title=Four Brown alums win 2006 Pulitzers |url=https://www.browndailyherald.com/2006/07/16/four-brown-alums-win-2006-pulitzers/ |access-date=2021-03-29 |website=Brown Daily Herald |language=en-US |archive-date=May 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506091149/https://www.browndailyherald.com/2006/07/16/four-brown-alums-win-2006-pulitzers/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Ryan |first=Cate |date=2019-04-16 |title=University alums win four Pulitzer Prizes |url=https://www.browndailyherald.com/2019/04/16/university-alums-win-four-pulitzer-prizes/ |access-date=2021-03-29 |website=Brown Daily Herald |language=en-US |archive-date=May 31, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200531200257/https://www.browndailyherald.com/2019/04/16/university-alums-win-four-pulitzer-prizes/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

===Computer science===
[[File:Computing Laboratory, Brown University (cropped).jpg|thumb|The Brown Computing Laboratory, designed by [[Philip Johnson]]]]
Brown began offering computer science courses through the departments of Economics and Applied Mathematics in 1956 when it acquired an IBM machine. Brown added an [[IBM 650]] in January 1958, the only one of its type between Hartford and Boston. In 1960, Brown opened its first dedicated computer building, the [[Brown University Computing Laboratory]]. The facility, designed by [[Philip Johnson]], received an [[IBM 7070]] computer the following year. The first undergraduate Computer Science degrees were awarded in 1974. Brown granted computer sciences full Departmental status in 1979. In 2009, IBM and Brown announced the installation of a supercomputer (by teraflops standards), the most powerful in the southeastern New England region.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.brown.edu/articles/2009/11/supercomputer |title=Brown, IBM Unveil Multimillion-Dollar Supercomputer – News from Brown |work=brown.edu |access-date=July 24, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150724123003/https://news.brown.edu/articles/2009/11/supercomputer |archive-date=July 24, 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref>

In the 1960s, [[Andries van Dam]], along with [[Ted Nelson]] and [[Bob Wallace (computer scientist)|Bob Wallace]] invented The [[Hypertext Editing System]]s, [[Hypertext Editing System|HES]] and [[FRESS]] while at Brown. Nelson coined the word ''[[hypertext]]'' while Van Dam's students helped originate [[XML]], [[XSLT]], and related Web standards. Among the school's computer science alumni are principal architect of the [[Classic Mac OS]], [[Andy Hertzfeld]]; principal architect of the [[Intel 80386]] and [[Intel 80486]] microprocessors, [[John Crawford (engineer)|John Crawford]]; former CEO of [[Apple Inc.|Apple]], [[John Sculley]]; and digital effects programmer [[Masi Oka]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hess |first=Abigail Johnson |date=2019-11-21 |title=Former Apple CEO John Sculley: 'The way we are educated is going to radically change' |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/21/ex-apple-ceo-the-way-we-are-educated-is-going-to-radically-change.html |access-date=2021-03-19 |website=CNBC |language=en |archive-date=May 19, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210519203212/https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/21/ex-apple-ceo-the-way-we-are-educated-is-going-to-radically-change.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Myers |first=Marc |date=2019-12-17 |title=Masi Oka Found a Hollywood Solution to His Math Problem |language=en-US |work=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/masi-oka-found-a-hollywood-solution-to-his-math-problem-11576598476 |access-date=2021-03-19 |issn=0099-9660 |archive-date=October 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211012044559/https://www.wsj.com/articles/masi-oka-found-a-hollywood-solution-to-his-math-problem-11576598476 |url-status=live}}</ref> Other alumni include former CS department head at MIT, [[John Guttag]]; software-defined networking pioneer [[Scott Shenker]]; [[Workday, Inc.|Workday]] founder, [[Aneel Bhusri]]; [[MongoDB Inc.|MongoDB]] founder [[Eliot Horowitz]]; [[Figma (software)|Figma]] founders [[Dylan Field]] and Evan Wallace (the latter of whom also created [[esbuild]]); [[OpenSea]] founder [[Devin Finzer]]; and [[Edward D. Lazowska]], professor and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Chair emeritus at the [[University of Washington]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Aneel Bhusri |url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/aneel-bhusri/ |access-date=2021-03-19 |website=Forbes |language=en |archive-date=March 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210307232934/https://www.forbes.com/profile/aneel-bhusri/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

Between 2012 and 2018, the number of concentrators in CS tripled.<ref>{{Cite web |last=McCormick |first=Jango |date=2018-12-06 |title=Computer science department plans expansion |url=https://www.browndailyherald.com/2018/12/06/computer-science-department-plans-expansion/ |access-date=2021-03-19 |website=Brown Daily Herald |language=en-US |archive-date=November 12, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112015731/https://www.browndailyherald.com/2018/12/06/computer-science-department-plans-expansion/ |url-status=live}}</ref> In 2017, computer science overtook economics as the school's most popular undergraduate concentration.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wang |first=Sarah |date=2017-09-14 |title=Computer science surpasses economics as most popular concentration |url=https://www.browndailyherald.com/2017/09/14/draft-wang-cs-most-popular-concentration/ |access-date=2021-03-19 |website=Brown Daily Herald |language=en-US |archive-date=November 12, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112001804/https://www.browndailyherald.com/2017/09/14/draft-wang-cs-most-popular-concentration/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Applied mathematics ===
Brown's program in [[applied mathematics]] was established in 1941 making it the oldest such program in the United States.<ref name=":9" /><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Greenberg |first1=John L. |last2=Goodstein |first2=Judith R. |date=1983-12-23 |title=Theodore von Kármán and Applied Mathematics in America |url=https://www.ams.org/publicoutreach/math-history/hmath2-greenberg.pdf |journal=Science |volume=222 |issue=4630 |pages=1300–1304 |doi=10.1126/science.222.4630.1300 |pmid=17773321 |bibcode=1983Sci...222.1300G |s2cid=19738034 |access-date=October 24, 2021 |archive-date=October 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211024044608/https://www.ams.org/publicoutreach/math-history/hmath2-greenberg.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref> The division is highly ranked and regarded nationally.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-10-10 |title=Best Applied Math Programs – Top Science Schools – US News Rankings |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-schools/applied-mathematics-rankings |access-date=2021-10-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211010170113/https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-schools/applied-mathematics-rankings |archive-date=October 10, 2021}}</ref> Among the 67 recipients of the [[Timoshenko Medal]], 22 have been affiliated with Brown's applied mathematics division as faculty, researchers, or students.{{Efn|[[Maurice Anthony Biot]] (1962), [[William Prager]] (1966), [[Hillel Poritsky]] (1967), [[Albert E. Green]] (1974), [[Chia-Chiao Lin]] (1975), [[Erastus H. Lee]] (1976), [[George F. Carrier]] (1978), [[Daniel C. Drucker]] (1983), [[Eli Sternberg]] (1985), [[Ronald Rivlin]] (1987), [[Bernard Budiansky]] (1989), [[James R. Rice]] (1994), [[Rodney J. Clifton]] (2000), [[L. Ben Freund]] (2003), [[Morton Gurtin]] (2004), [[Kenneth L. Johnson]] (2006), [[Alan Needleman]] (2011), [[Subra Suresh]] (2012), [[Robert McMeeking]] (2014), [[Viggo Tvergaard]] (2017), [[Ares J. Rosakis]] (2018), [[Huajian Gao]] (2021)}}

=== The Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World ===
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Established in 2004, the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World is Brown's interdisciplinary research center for archeology and ancient studies. The institute pursues fieldwork, excavations, regional surveys, and academic study of the archaeology and art of the ancient Mediterranean, Egypt, and Western Asia from the [[Levant]] to the [[Caucasus]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lader |first=Mary-Catherine |date=2004-11-18 |title=University plans interdisciplinary approach for new archaeology institute |url=https://www.browndailyherald.com/2004/11/18/university-plans-interdisciplinary-approach-for-new-archaeology-institute/ |access-date=2021-04-11 |website=Brown Daily Herald |language=en-US |archive-date=April 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411024737/https://www.browndailyherald.com/2004/11/18/university-plans-interdisciplinary-approach-for-new-archaeology-institute/ |url-status=live}}</ref> The institute has a very active fieldwork profile, with faculty-led excavations and regional surveys presently in [[Petra]] (Jordan), [[Abydos, Egypt|Abydos]] (Egypt), Turkey, Sudan, Italy, Mexico, Guatemala, [[Montserrat]], and Providence.

The Joukowsky Institute's faculty includes cross-appointments from the departments of Egyptology, Assyriology, Classics, Anthropology, and History of Art and Architecture. Faculty research and publication areas include Greek and Roman art and architecture, landscape archaeology, urban and religious architecture of the Levant, Roman provincial studies, the Aegean Bronze Age, and the archaeology of the [[Caucasus]]. The institute offers visiting teaching appointments and postdoctoral fellowships which have, in recent years, included Near Eastern Archaeology and Art, [[Classical archaeology|Classical Archaeology]] and Art, Islamic Archaeology and Art, and Archaeology and Media Studies.

'''Egyptology and Assyriology'''

Facing the Joukowsky Institute, across the Front Green, is the Department of Egyptology and Assyriology, formed in 2006 by the merger of Brown's departments of Egyptology and History of Mathematics. It is one of only a handful of such departments in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lutts |first=Chloe |date=2005-11-09 |title=Nation's only Egyptology dept. set to expand, but details not set in stone |url=https://www.browndailyherald.com/2005/11/09/nations-only-egyptology-dept-set-to-expand-but-details-not-set-in-stone/ |access-date=2021-03-29 |website=Brown Daily Herald |language=en-US |archive-date=August 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220801041022/https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2005/11/nation-s-only-egyptology-dept-set-to-expand-but-details-not-set-in-stone |url-status=live}}</ref> The curricular focus is on three principal areas: [[Egyptology]], [[Assyriology]], and the history of the ancient exact sciences (astronomy, astrology, and mathematics). Many courses in the department are open to all Brown undergraduates without prerequisites and include archaeology, languages, history, and Egyptian and [[Ancient Mesopotamian religion|Mesopotamian religions]], literature, and science. Students concentrating in the department choose a track of either Egyptology or Assyriology. Graduate-level study comprises three tracks to the doctoral degree: Egyptology, Assyriology, or the History of the Exact Sciences in Antiquity.

=== The Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs ===
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The Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown's center for the study of global Issues and public affairs, is one of the leading institutes of its type in the country. The institute occupies facilities designed by Uruguayan architect [[Rafael Viñoly]] and Japanese architect [[Toshiko Mori]]. The institute was initially endowed by [[Thomas J. Watson Jr.|Thomas Watson Jr.]] (Class of 1937), former [[Ambassador to the Soviet Union]] and longtime president of [[IBM]].

Institute faculty and faculty emeritus include [[Prime Minister of Italy|Italian prime minister]] and [[European Commission]] president [[Romano Prodi]],<ref>[http://www.watson.brown.edu/people/faculty/prodi Brown.edu] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140930014537/http://www.watson.brown.edu/people/faculty/prodi |date=September 30, 2014 }}</ref> Brazilian president [[Fernando Henrique Cardoso]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.watson.brown.edu/news/2012/former-professor-large-cardoso-awarded-kluge-prize-study-humanity |title=Brown.edu |access-date=September 11, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190222012357/https://watson.brown.edu/news/2012/former-professor-large-cardoso-awarded-kluge-prize-study-humanity |archive-date=February 22, 2019 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all}}</ref> Chilean president [[Ricardo Lagos|Ricardo Lagos Escobar]],<ref>[http://www.watson.brown.edu/people/faculty/lagos Brown.edu] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402013501/http://www.watson.brown.edu/people/faculty/lagos |date=April 2, 2015 }}</ref> Mexican novelist and statesman [[Carlos Fuentes]],<ref>{{cite web |title=The Social Fabric: Global Migration, Local Exclusions, and the New Iberoamerican Agenda |url=http://watson.brown.edu/events/2011/social-fabric-global-migration-local-exclusions-and-new-iberoamerican-agenda |publisher=Watson Institute |access-date=9 March 2015 |date=April 6, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402160258/http://watson.brown.edu/events/2011/social-fabric-global-migration-local-exclusions-and-new-iberoamerican-agenda |archive-date=April 2, 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref> Brazilian statesman and United Nations commission head [[Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro]],<ref>[http://www.watson.brown.edu/people/faculty/pinheiro Brown.edu] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140930064440/http://www.watson.brown.edu/people/faculty/pinheiro |date=September 30, 2014 }}</ref> Indian foreign minister and ambassador to the United States [[Nirupama Rao]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Meera and Vikram Gandhi Fellows |url=https://brown.edu/initiatives/india/meera-and-vikram-gandhi-fellows |publisher=Brown University |access-date=9 March 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20150309230031/http://brown.edu/initiatives/india/meera-and-vikram-gandhi-fellows |archive-date=March 9, 2015 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> American diplomat and [[Dayton Agreement|Dayton Peace Accords]] author [[Richard Holbrooke]] (Class of 1962),<ref>{{cite web |title=Brown University community mourns loss of Richard C. Holbrooke, alumnus and career diplomat |url=https://news.brown.edu/articles/2010/12/hol |publisher=Brown University |access-date=9 March 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402122237/https://news.brown.edu/articles/2010/12/hol |archive-date=April 2, 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref> and [[Sergei Khrushchev]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Sergei Khrushchev Recalls the Cuban Missile Crisis on BBC |url=http://watson.brown.edu/news/2012/sergei-khrushchev-recalls-cuban-missile-crisis-bbc |publisher=Watson Institute |access-date=9 March 2015 |date=October 15, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402125530/http://watson.brown.edu/news/2012/sergei-khrushchev-recalls-cuban-missile-crisis-bbc |archive-date=April 2, 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref> 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. Six Brown undergraduate concentrations are hosted by the Watson Institute: [[Development studies|Development Studies]], International and Public Affairs, International Relations, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Middle East Studies, Public Policy, and South Asian Studies. Graduate programs offered at the Watson Institute include the Graduate Program in Development (Ph.D.) and the Master of Public Affairs (M.P.A) Program. The institute also offers postdoctoral, 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. In recent years, the most internationally cited product of the Watson Institute has been its [[Casualties of the Iraq War|Costs of War Project]], first released in 2011 and continuously updated since. The project comprises a team of economists, anthropologists, political scientists, legal experts, and physicians, and seeks to calculate the economic costs, human casualties, and impact on civil liberties of the wars in [[Iraq War|Iraq]], [[War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)|Afghanistan]], and [[Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa|Pakistan]] since 2001.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ismay |first=John |date=2020-09-08 |title=At Least 37 Million People Have Been Displaced by America's War on Terror |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/08/magazine/displaced-war-on-terror.html |access-date=2021-04-01 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=March 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210324005536/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/08/magazine/displaced-war-on-terror.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

===The School of Engineering===
{{main|Brown University School of Engineering}}
[[File:Brown University Engineering Research Center.jpg|thumb|The Brown University Engineering Research Center, completed in 2018 and designed by [[KieranTimberlake]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Defusto |first=Lydia |date=2017-10-23 |title=Engineering Research Center opens early |url=https://www.browndailyherald.com/2017/10/23/engineering-research-center-opens-early/ |access-date=2021-04-01 |website=Brown Daily Herald |language=en-US |archive-date=September 14, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180914165401/http://www.browndailyherald.com/2017/10/23/engineering-research-center-opens-early/ |url-status=live}}</ref>]]
Established in 1847, Brown's engineering program is the oldest in the Ivy League and the third oldest civilian engineering program in the country.{{Efn|The program was preceded by that of the [[Rensselaer Institute]] (1824) and [[Union College]] (1845) |name= |group= }} In 1916, Brown's departments of electrical, mechanical, and civil engineering were merged into a single Division of Engineering. In 2010 the division was elevated to a School of Engineering.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ember |first=Sydney |date=2010-07-26 |title=Corporation approves engineering school at May meeting |url=https://www.browndailyherald.com/2010/07/26/corporation-approves-engineering-school-at-may-meeting/ |access-date=2021-04-01 |website=Brown Daily Herald |language=en-US |archive-date=August 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220801041022/https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2010/07/corporation-approves-engineering-school-at-may-meeting/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

Engineering at Brown is especially interdisciplinary. The school is organized without the traditional departments or boundaries found at most schools and follows a model of connectivity between disciplines—including biology, medicine, physics, chemistry, computer science, the humanities, and the social sciences. The school practices an innovative clustering of faculties in which engineers team with non-engineers to bring a convergence of ideas.

Student teams have launched two [[CubeSat]]s with the support of the School of Engineering. Brown Space Engineering developed [[EQUiSat]] a 1U satellite, and another interdisciplinary team developed [[SBUDNIC]] a 3U satellite.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Schornstein |first1=Benjamin |title=Student-built satellite returns after two and a half years in space |url=https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2021/03/student-built-satellite-returns-after-two-and-a-half-years-in-space |work=The Brown Daily Herald |access-date=August 5, 2022 |archive-date=August 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220805114714/https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2021/03/student-built-satellite-returns-after-two-and-a-half-years-in-space |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Sandlow |first1=Haley |title=Student-led team delays launch of satellite to June 2022 |url=https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2022/03/student-led-team-delays-launch-of-satellite-to-june-2022 |access-date=5 August 2022 |work=The Brown Daily Herald |archive-date=August 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220805114949/https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2022/03/student-led-team-delays-launch-of-satellite-to-june-2022 |url-status=live }}</ref>

===IE Brown Executive MBA Dual Degree Program===
Since 2009, Brown has developed an Executive MBA program in conjunction with one of the leading Business Schools in Europe, [[IE Business School]] in Madrid. This relationship has since strengthened resulting in both institutions offering a dual degree program.<ref>{{cite web |author=Brown's website |date=October 2014 |url=https://brown.edu/professional/executive/iebrown-mba/ |title=IE Brown Executive MBA |publisher=Brown University News Service |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141107114344/http://brown.edu/professional/executive/iebrown-mba/ |archive-date=November 7, 2014 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all}}</ref> In this partnership, Brown provides its traditional coursework while IE provides most of the business-related subjects making a differentiated alternative program to other Ivy League's EMBAs.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Clark |first1=Patrick |title=Brown University Gets Into the MBA Game |newspaper=Bloomberg.com |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-05-23/brown-university-gets-into-the-mba-game |publisher=Bloomberg L.P. |access-date=9 March 2015 |date=May 23, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308052742/http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-05-23/brown-university-gets-into-the-mba-game |archive-date=March 8, 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref> The cohort typically consists of 25–30 EMBA candidates from some 20 countries.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.iebrown.com/faqs.php |title=IE Brown Executive MBA – Faqs – IE Brown Executive MBA |work=iebrown.com |access-date=July 24, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141217091212/http://www.iebrown.com/faqs.php |archive-date=December 17, 2014 |df=mdy}}</ref> Classes are held in Providence, [[Madrid]], [[Cape Town]] and Online.
[[File:Pembroke Hall at Brown University.jpg|thumb|Pembroke Hall (1897) houses the administrative offices of the [[Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women]].]]

===The Pembroke Center===
{{Main|Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women}}
The Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women was established at Brown in 1981 by [[Joan Wallach Scott]] as an interdisciplinary research center on gender.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hinds |first=Katherine |date=1985 |title=Joan Wallach Scott: Breaking New Ground for Women |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40164355 |journal=Change |volume=17 |issue=4 |pages=48–53 |doi=10.1080/00091383.1985.9940534 |jstor=40164355 |issn=0009-1383 |access-date=April 1, 2021 |archive-date=April 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220417132646/https://www.jstor.org/stable/40164355 |url-status=live}}</ref> The center is named for Pembroke College, Brown's former women's college, and is affiliated with Brown's [[Sarah Doyle Women's Center]]. The Pembroke Center supports Brown's undergraduate concentration in [[Gender studies|Gender and Sexuality Studies]], post-doctoral research fellowships, the annual Pembroke Seminar, and other academic programs. It also manages various collections, archives, and resources, including the Elizabeth Weed Feminist Theory Papers and the Christine Dunlap Farnham Archive.

===The Graduate School===
{{Main|Brown University Graduate School}}
[[File:Brown's Open Curriculum 50 years picnic.jpg|thumb|[[Sayles Memorial Hall|Sayles Hall]] on the Main Green ]]
Brown introduced graduate courses in the 1870s and granted its first advanced degrees in 1888. The university established a Graduate Department in 1903 and a full Graduate School in 1927.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Encyclopedia Brunoniana {{!}} Graduate School |url=https://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/Databases/Encyclopedia/search.php?serial=G0200 |access-date=2021-04-11 |website=www.brown.edu |archive-date=April 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411024737/https://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/Databases/Encyclopedia/search.php?serial=G0200 |url-status=live}}</ref>

With an enrollment of approximately 2,600 students, the school currently offers 33 and 51 master's and doctoral programs, respectively. The school additionally offers a number of fifth-year master's programs.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Weissmann |first=Elena |date=2015-09-16 |title=Fifth-year master's programs see rise in enrollment, expand to new depts. |url=https://www.browndailyherald.com/2015/09/16/fifth-year-masters-programs-see-rise-in-enrollment-expand-to-new-depts/ |access-date=2021-03-29 |website=Brown Daily Herald |language=en-US |archive-date=September 10, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160910100815/http://www.browndailyherald.com/2015/09/16/fifth-year-masters-programs-see-rise-in-enrollment-expand-to-new-depts/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Overall, admission to the Graduate School is most competitive with an acceptance rate averaging at approximately 9 percent in recent years.

=== Carney Institute for Brain Science ===
{{Main|Carney Institute for Brain Science}}
The Robert J. & Nancy D. Carney Institute for Brain Science is Brown's cross-departmental neuroscience [[research institute]]. The institute's core focus areas include [[Brain–computer interface|brain-computer interfaces]] and [[computational neuroscience]]; additional areas of focus include research into mechanisms of [[cell death]] with the interest of developing therapies for [[Neurodegeneration|neurodegenerative diseases]].

The Carney Institute was founded by [[John Donoghue (neuroscientist)|John Donoghue]] in 2009 as the Brown Institute for Brain Science and renamed in 2018 in recognition of a $100 million gift.<ref name="providencejournal_2018-04-182">{{Cite web |last=Miller |first=G. Wayne |title=Brown University gets $100M gift for neuroscience institute |url=https://www.providencejournal.com/news/20180418/brown-university-gets-100m-gift-for-neuroscience-institute |access-date=2021-02-18 |website=providencejournal.com |language=en |archive-date=April 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411024735/https://www.providencejournal.com/news/20180418/brown-university-gets-100m-gift-for-neuroscience-institute |url-status=live}}</ref> The donation, one of the largest in the university's history, established the institute as one of the best-endowed university neuroscience programs in the country.<ref name=":04">{{Cite web |last=Renken |first=Elena |date=2019-05-24 |title=Brain science blooms at Brown |url=https://www.browndailyherald.com/2019/05/24/brain-science-blooms-brown/ |access-date=2021-02-18 |website=Brown Daily Herald |language=en-US |archive-date=April 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411024738/https://www.browndailyherald.com/2019/05/24/brain-science-blooms-brown/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

===Alpert Medical School===
{{Main|Alpert Medical School}}
[[File:Alpert Medical School, Providence, Rhode Island.jpg|thumb|The [[Alpert Medical School]] building on Richmond Street]]Established in 1811, Brown's Alpert Medical School is the fourth oldest medical school in the Ivy League.<ref name=":13"/>{{Efn|The school's founding was preceded by that of [[Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons|Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons]], [[Harvard Medical School]], and [[Dartmouth Medical School]]. While Yale chartered a medical school in 1810, instruction did not begin for another three years.}}

In 1827, medical instruction was suspended by President [[Francis Wayland]] after the program's faculty declined to follow a new policy requiring students to live on campus. The program was reorganized in 1972; the first M.D. degrees from the new Program in Medicine were awarded to a graduating class of 58 students in 1975. In 1991, the school was officially renamed the Brown University School of Medicine, then renamed once more to Brown Medical School in October 2000.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://med.brown.edu/timeline/ |title=History of the Brown Medical School |publisher=Med.brown.edu |access-date=June 6, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130504102538/http://med.brown.edu/timeline/ |archive-date=May 4, 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref> In January 2007, entrepreneur and philanthropist [[Warren Alpert]] donated $100 million to the school. In recognition of the gift, the school's name was changed to the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

In 2020, ''[[U.S. News & World Report]]'' ranked Brown's medical school the 9th most selective in the country, with an acceptance rate of 2.8%.<ref name="usnews.com">{{cite web |last1=Smith-Barrow |first1=Delece |title=10 Medical Schools With the Lowest Acceptance Rates |url=https://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/the-short-list-grad-school/articles/2014/03/27/10-medical-schools-with-the-lowest-acceptance-rates |publisher=U.S. News & World Report LP |date=March 27, 2014 |access-date=August 25, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150316192021/http://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/the-short-list-grad-school/articles/2014/03/27/10-medical-schools-with-the-lowest-acceptance-rates |archive-date=March 16, 2015 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all}}</ref> ''U.S. News'' ranks the school 38th for research and 35th for primary care.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-medical-schools/primary-care-rankings?int=af3309&int=b3b50a&int=aac509 |title=Best Medical Schools (Primary Care) Ranked in 2019 – US News Rankings |publisher=Grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com |access-date=December 15, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170808235910/https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-medical-schools/primary-care-rankings?int=af3309&int=b3b50a&int=aac509 |archive-date=August 8, 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Brown's medical school is known especially for its eight-year [[Program in Liberal Medical Education]] (PLME), an eight-year combined baccalaureate-M.D. medical program. Inaugurated in 1984, the program is one of the most selective and renowned programs of its type in the country, offering admission to only 2% of applicants in 2021.<ref name=":6">{{Cite web |last=Kubzansky |first=Will |date=2021-04-06 |title=Brown admits record-low 5.4 percent of applicants to the class of 2025 |url=https://www.browndailyherald.com/2021/04/06/brown-admits-record-low-5-4-percent-applicants-class-2025/ |access-date=2021-04-11 |website=Brown Daily Herald |language=en-US |archive-date=April 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210406235148/https://www.browndailyherald.com/2021/04/06/brown-admits-record-low-5-4-percent-applicants-class-2025/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

Since 1976, the Early Identification Program (EIP) has encouraged Rhode Island residents to pursue careers in medicine by recruiting sophomores from [[Providence College]], [[Rhode Island College]], the [[University of Rhode Island]], and [[Tougaloo College]]. In 2004, the school once again began to accept applications from premedical students at other colleges and universities via [[AMCAS]] like most other medical schools. The medical school also offers M.D./PhD, M.D./[[Master of Public Health|M.P.H.]] and M.D./[[Master of Public Policy|M.P.P.]] dual degree programs.

=== School of Public Health ===
{{Main|Brown University School of Public Health}}
[[File:121 South Main St and Providence River.jpg|thumb|The primary building of the [[Brown University School of Public Health]] viewed from across the [[Providence River]]]]
Brown's School of Public Health grew out of the Alpert Medical School's Department of Community Health and was officially founded in 2013 as an independent school.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=February 14 |last2=Orenstein 401-863-1862 |first2=2013 Media contact: David |title=Brown creates School of Public Health |url=https://news.brown.edu/articles/2013/02/publichealth |access-date=2021-02-05 |website=news.brown.edu |language=en |archive-date=February 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210213050905/https://news.brown.edu/articles/2013/02/publichealth |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":02">{{Cite web |last=Miller |first=Rhonda |date=2013-07-13 |title=Brown launches public-health school |url=https://pbn.com/brown-launches-public-health-school90092/ |access-date=2021-03-01 |website=Providence Business News |language=en-US |archive-date=August 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220801041023/https://pbn.com/brown-launches-public-health-school90092/ |url-status=live}}</ref> The school issues undergraduate (A.B., Sc.B.), graduate (M.P.H., Sc.M., A.M.), doctoral (Ph.D.), and dual-degrees (M.P.H./M.P.A., M.D./M.P.H.).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wren |first=Kayli |date=2016-09-28 |title=Brown becomes first in country to offer four-year joint MD-MPA program |url=https://www.browndailyherald.com/2016/09/28/brown-becomes-first-country-offer-four-year-joint-md-mpa-program/ |access-date=2021-04-01 |website=Brown Daily Herald |language=en-US |archive-date=September 29, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160929143057/http://www.browndailyherald.com/2016/09/28/brown-becomes-first-country-offer-four-year-joint-md-mpa-program/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

===Online programs===
The Brown University School of Professional Studies currently offers [[blended learning]] Executive master's degrees in [[Health administration|Healthcare Leadership]], Cyber Security, and Science and Technology Leadership.<ref>{{citation |title=Brown School of Professional Studies |url=https://professional.brown.edu/ |access-date=May 13, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180413123935/https://professional.brown.edu/ |archive-date=April 13, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> The master's degrees are designed to help students who have a job and life outside of academia to progress in their respective fields. The students meet in Providence every 6–7 weeks for a weekly seminar each trimester.

The university has also invested in [[MOOC]] development starting in 2013, when two courses, ''Archeology's Dirty Little Secrets'' and ''The Fiction of Relationship'', both of which received thousands of students.<ref>{{cite news |title=Brown launches two free online courses |url=https://news.brown.edu/articles/2013/06/coursera |access-date=May 13, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180514141420/https://news.brown.edu/articles/2013/06/coursera |archive-date=May 14, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> However, after a year of courses, the university broke its contract with [[Coursera]] and revamped its online persona and MOOC development department. By 2017, the university released new courses on [[EdX|edx]], two of which were ''The Ethics of Memory'' and ''Artful Medicine: Art's Power to Enrich Patient Care''. In January 2018, Brown published its first "game-ified" course called ''Fantastic Places, Unhuman Humans: Exploring Humanity Through Literature'', which featured out-of-platform games to help learners understand materials, as well as a story-line that immerses users into a fictional world to help characters along their journey.<ref>{{citation |title=BrownX |url=https://www.edx.org/school/brownx |access-date=May 13, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180514065004/https://www.edx.org/school/brownx |archive-date=May 14, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref>