All graduate student research is carried out in faculty research laboratories. The fourteen-story Sciences Library houses approximately 4,000 current periodicals and 530,000 bound volumes and provides study space for 300 students. A campuswide broadband communications network, connecting more than 110 buildings on campus, provides high-speed data communications among more than 3,000 workstations, terminals, hosts, and servers. Health insurance is available through Brown University. Student Group There are about 5,400 undergraduates and 1,300 graduate students enrolled in the University.
Students come from all regions of the United States and from more than fifty other countries.
Location Brown University is in a Colonial restoration district situated at the top of College Hill in Providence, the capital of Rhode Island. The city of Providence, a compact area with excellent restaurants and cultural and social attractions, is the state's center for business, cultural, and recreational activities. The Brown campus itself is a 133-acre complex of architecturally diverse old and new buildings centered around the College Green. Throughout the year, the campus is alive with plays, concerts, movies, sports, lectures, art shows, and many other sources of entertainment and intellectual stimulation. Rhode Island is ideally located for travel to other parts of New England, including Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Boston, and the ski country of Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine.