Editing Brown University (section)

===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.