The Basics
Brown’s motto is in deo speramus—In God We Hope.
The University’s colors are red and brown.
Our mascot is the bear. The costumed bear mascot that appears at athletic games is named Bruno.
Admission Statistics for the Class of 2011
Distribution of College Board Test Scores (Critical Reading)
Applied | Accepted | % Accepted | Enrolled | % of Class | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 800 | 1,623 | 474 | 29.2% | 209 | 15.1% |
| 750-790 | 2,867 | 566 | 19.7% | 281 | 20.4% |
| 700-740 | 4,101 | 647 | 15.8% | 352 | 25.5% |
| 650-690 | 3,654 | 407 | 11.1% | 244 | 17.7% |
| 600-640 | 2,614 | 241 | 9.2% | 159 | 11.5% |
| 550-590 | 1,243 | 118 | 9.5% | 87 | 6.3% |
| < 500 | 1057 | 61 | 5.8% | 48 | 3.6% |
Distribution of College Board Test Scores (Math)
Applied | Accepted | % Accepted | Enrolled | % of Class | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 800 | 1,665 | 458 | 27.5% | 188 | 13.6% |
| 750-790 | 3,096 | 641 | 20.7% | 319 | 23.1% |
| 700-740 | 4,261 | 669 | 15.7% | 397 | 28.8% |
| 650-690 | 4,039 | 414 | 10.3% | 247 | 17.9% |
| 600-640 | 2,049 | 205 | 10.0% | 139 | 10.1% |
| 550-590 | 1,164 | 85 | 7.3% | 59 | 4.3% |
| < 500 | 885 | 42 | 4.7% | 31 | 2.3% |
Distribution of College Board Test Scores (Writing)
Applied | Accepted | % Accepted | Enrolled | % of Class | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 800 | 1,056 | 307 | 29.1% | 127 | 9.2% |
| 750-790 | 2,865 | 629 | 22.0% | 309 | 22.5% |
| 700-740 | 4,583 | 725 | 15.8% | 415 | 30.2% |
| 650-690 | 3,984 | 450 | 11.3% | 252 | 18.3% |
| 600-640 | 2,402 | 224 | 9.3% | 135 | 9.8% |
| 550-590 | 1,328 | 121 | 9.1% | 94 | 6.8% |
| < 550 | 914 | 51 | 5.6% | 43 | 3.2% |
Distribution of ACT Scores
Applied | Accepted | % Accepted | Enrolled | % of Class | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 36 | 39 | 13 | 33.3% | 3 | 0.7% |
| 33-35 | 1,352 | 249 | 18.4% | 119 | 29.7% |
| 29-32 | 2,571 | 266 | 10.3% | 166 | 41.4% |
| 26-28 | 975 | 96 | 9.8% | 65 | 16.2% |
| 23-25 | 420 | 45 | 10.7% | 36 | 9.0% |
| < 23 | 217 | 15 | 6.9% | 12 | 3.0% |
Rank In Class
Applied | Accepted | % Accepted | Enrolled | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Valedictorian | 1,157 | 336 | 29% | 142 |
| Salutatorian | 593 | 165 | 28% | 87 |
| Total Top Tenth | 6,146 | 1,166 | 19% | 595 |
| 2nd Tenth and below | 1,879 | 73 | 4% | 52 |
| Number attending schools that do not provide class rank | 11,072 | 1,430 | 13% | 837 |
Academic Life
The College employs 679 full-time faculty members and 133 adjunct and visiting professors. Brown’s student-to-faculty ratio is 9:1. Every Brown faculty member teaches undergraduates.
There are more than 6 million items in Brown's 6 libraries: the John D. Rockefeller Library, the Sciences Library, the John Hay Library, the Orwig Music Library, the Annmary Brown Memorial Library, and the John Carter Brown Library.
Facilities
The main campus of Brown occupies 143 acres on the East Side of Providence. Included within the main campus are 235 buildings. Of the University’s 4.8 million usable square feet of floor space, approximately 2.9 million square feet are used for academic space and residence halls.
The Students
- Brown currently enrolls approximately 5,900 undergraduates from all 50 states and 63 countries.
- 52% of undergraduates are female, 48% male.
- About 29% of undergrads are people of color.
- 9% hail from abroad.
- The graduation rate within 6 years is 95%.
- 80% of all undergraduates live in residence halls.
- 9% of students belong to fraternities or sororities; there are 12 fraternities, and 5 sororities.
- 1530 graduates in the Class of 2007:
1196 A.B. recipients
312 Sc.B. recipients
22 Combined A.B./Sc.B.
Life After Brown
- 35% of undergraduates pursue graduate or professional study immediately.
- 60% of undergraduates pursue graduate or professional study within 5 years.
- Brown consistently ranks among the top five colleges in the nation in the percentage of its applicants accepted to medical school, and these impressive records are similar in other areas of graduate study.
- Of those who apply to law school, 92 to 95 percent are accepted to one of their top three choices; among business school applicants, the figure is nearly 100 percent.
- Within 10 years of graduation, 80% of all students have pursued further education through graduate or professional study.
63 countries are represented in the Brown student body:
| Australia | Indonesia | Slovakia South Africa Spain Swaziland Sweden Switzerland Syria Taiwan Thailand The Netherlands Trinidad & Tobago Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom United States Uzbekistan Venezuela Vietnam Zimbabwe |