claim: Brown University's main campus is located in the city in Rhode Island with the highest population.
evidence: Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence , Rhode Island , United States , founded in 1764 as `` The College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations . ''. Providence. Providence, Rhode Island. Ivy League. Ivy League. private. Private university. research university. Doctoral university. Rhode Island. Rhode Island. United States. United States. The College. The College of Brown University. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine Colonial Colleges established before the American Revolution .. United States. United States. seventh-oldest institution. List of Colonial Colleges. higher education. higher education. Colonial Colleges. List of Colonial Colleges. American Revolution. American Revolution. At its foundation , Brown was the first college in the United States to accept students regardless of their religious affiliation .. United States. United States. Its engineering program was established in 1847 and was the first in the Ivy League .. Ivy League. Ivy League. engineering. engineering. It was one of the early doctoral-granting U.S. institutions in the late 19th century , adding master and doctoral studies in 1887 .. Brown 's New Curriculum is sometimes referred to in education theory as the Brown Curriculum and was adopted by faculty vote in 1969 after a period of student lobbying .. New Curriculum. Brown University#The New Curriculum. The New Curriculum eliminated mandatory `` general education '' distribution requirements , made students `` the architects of their own syllabus , '' and allowed them to take any course for a grade of satisfactory or unrecorded no-credit .. New Curriculum. Brown University#The New Curriculum. In 1971 , Brown 's coordinate women 's institution Pembroke College was fully merged into the university .. Pembroke College. Pembroke College ( Brown University ). Pembroke Campus now operates as a place for dorms and classrooms .. Undergraduate admissions is very selective , with an acceptance rate of 8.3 percent for the class of 2021 , according to the university .. The University comprises The College , the Graduate School , Alpert Medical School , the School of Engineering , the School of Public Health , and the School of Professional Studies -LRB- which includes the IE Brown Executive MBA program -RRB- .. The College. The College of Brown University. Graduate School. Graduate School of Brown University. Alpert Medical School. Alpert Medical School. School of Engineering. Brown University School of Engineering. IE Business School. Brown 's international programs are organized through the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs , and the university is academically affiliated with the Marine Biological Laboratory and the Rhode Island School of Design .. Rhode Island. Rhode Island. Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. Watson Institute for International Studies. Marine Biological Laboratory. Marine Biological Laboratory. Rhode Island School of Design. Rhode Island School of Design. The Brown / RISD Dual Degree Program , offered in conjunction with the Rhode Island School of Design , is a five-year course that awards degrees from both institutions .. Rhode Island. Rhode Island. Rhode Island School of Design. Rhode Island School of Design. Brown / RISD Dual Degree Program. Brown University#Brown / RISD Dual Degree Program. Brown 's main campus is located in the College Hill Historic District in the city of Providence , the third largest city in New England .. Providence. Providence, Rhode Island. College Hill Historic District. College Hill Historic District ( Providence, Rhode Island ). New England. New England. The University 's neighborhood is a federally listed architectural district with a dense concentration of Colonial-era buildings .. On the western edge of the campus , Benefit Street contains `` one of the finest cohesive collections of restored seventeenth - and eighteenth-century architecture in the United States '' .. United States. United States. Brown 's faculty and alumni include eight Nobel Prize laureates , five National Humanities Medalists , and ten National Medal of Science laureates .. faculty and alumni. List of Brown University people. Nobel Prize. Nobel Prize. National Medal of Science. National Medal of Science. Other notable alumni include eight billionaire graduates , a U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice , four U.S. Secretaries of State and other Cabinet officials , 54 members of the United States Congress , 55 Rhodes Scholars , 48 Marshall Scholars , 14 MacArthur Genius Fellows , 19 Pulitzer Prize winners , members of royal families , as well as leaders and founders of major companies .. United States. United States. Other notable alumni. List of Brown University people. U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice. Chief Justice of the United States. U.S. Secretaries of State. United States Secretary of State. United States Congress. United States Congress. Rhodes Scholars. Rhodes Scholarship. Marshall Scholars. Marshall Scholars. MacArthur Genius. MacArthur Fellows Program. Pulitzer Prize. Pulitzer Prize