Brown Ranked Among Best Universities in the Country
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
Brown University is ranked as one of the best universities in the country.
According to the latest rankings from U.S. News & World Report, Brown is ranked in a tie for the 14th best school in the country among the category "National Universities." Cornell and Vanderbilt are also ranked 14th.
This is the third straight year in which Brown is ranked 14th.
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLAST“Brown University is a private institution that was founded in 1764. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 6,926, its setting is city, and the campus size is 146 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. Brown University's ranking in the 2018 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, 14. Its tuition and fees are $53,419 (2017-18),” wrote U.S. News & World Report about Brown.
Brown’s Rankings
- #14 (tie) - National Universities
- #3 (tie) - Best Undergraduate Teaching
- #14 - Best Value Schools
- #5 (tie) - High School Counselor Rankings
- #40 (tie) - Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs
Princeton University is ranked number one among National Universities while Harvard held on to second place. The University of Chicago is tied with Yale for third.
RI College Rankings
Providence College was ranked as the number one in the north among Regional Universities for the second straight year.
Bryant University is ranked 10th in the north among Regional Universities after ranking ninth last year.
Salve Regina University and Roger Williams are in a tie for 37th in the north among Regional Universities. Salve Regina was ranked 32nd last year, while Roger Williams was ranked 35th.
The University of Rhode Island is ranked 156th among National Universities after ranking 159th last year.
Johnson & Wales University is ranked 64th in the north among Regional Universities. They were ranked 67th last year.
Rhode Island College’s rank was not published in 2018. They ranked 137th in the north among Regional Universities last year.
Note: New England Institute of Technology is unranked, as is RISD.
Note as to categories: Schools in the National Universities category, such as Brown University and URI, offer a full range of undergraduate majors, plus masters and Ph.D. programs. These colleges also are committed to producing groundbreaking research. Liberal Arts Colleges are schools like Williams, which emphasize undergraduate education and award at least half of their degrees in the liberal arts fields of study. Regional Universities offer a full range of undergrad programs and some master's programs but few doctoral programs, and Regional Colleges focus on undergraduate education but grant fewer than half their degrees in liberal arts disciplines.
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