unitid 217156 · Providence, RI · private nonprofit 4-year · city (midsize)
Brown University
Private university in Providence, Rhode Island, US
- founded
- 1765
- enrollment 2023
- 11,766
- predominant degree
- Bachelor's
- website
- brown.edu/
- motto
- “In Deo Speramus”
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Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in the College Hill neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island, United States. The university is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. One of nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution, it was the first American college to codify that admission and instruction of students was to be equal regardless of the religious affiliation of students. wikipedia rev 1364033147 ↗
scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within private nonprofit 4-years
The record
admission rate
5%
1st pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
undergraduates
7,226
96th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
Pell share
14%
undergrads on Pell grants
9th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
completion
96%
finish within 150% time
97th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
sticker cost / yr
$87,648
98th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
avg net price / yr
$25,184
after aid, aided students
64th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
median earnings, 10 yr
$93,487
after entry, Title IV students
97th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
median grad debt
$11,428
4th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
what families actually pay
Cost
Sticker price is a fiction for most families — net price is what aided students pay after grants, by family income.
Average net price by family income, 2023–24 aid cohort
Families earning under $30k paid $-420 per year after aid.
Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of private nonprofit 4-years (all incomes).
Who enrolls, by family income
family income mix not reported
- Median family income
- $82,671
- First-generation students
- 17%
- In-state tuition & fees
- $71,412
earnings · debt · programs
Outcomes
Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid
Ten years out, the median graduate earns 8.2× the median graduate debt.
Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.
What programs pay — top fields of study
| program | grads | earn 5 yr | debt |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Science. | 236 | $271,601 | $11,500 |
| Economics. | 179 | $112,306 | $13,000 |
| Applied Mathematics. | 173 | $135,511 | $10,000 |
| International Relations and National Security Studies. | 137 | $104,415 | $12,000 |
| Medicine. | 135 | $134,929 | — |
| Computer Science. | 129 | — | — |
| Social Sciences, General. | 116 | — | — |
| Biology, General. | 110 | $65,144 | $13,000 |
| Engineering, General. | 103 | — | — |
| Engineering, General. | 80 | $117,101 | $14,500 |
| English Language and Literature, General. | 77 | $55,569 | $13,500 |
| Social Sciences, General. | 75 | — | — |
— is privacy suppression at small programs, never zero. Earnings are median, 5 years after completing.
annual scorecard files, 1996–2026
Trajectory
Line breaks are years where the measure wasn't collected — a gap is not a zero.
Admission rate
Price per year
- sticker
- net
Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry
Undergraduates
wikidata · 7,553 people recorded
Memory
Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
Field fingerprint — share of recorded alumni by field
Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade
People without a recorded gender are excluded; decades with fewer than 5 recorded alumni are dropped.
Wikipedia attention
monthly article views since 2015
most recorded occupationsresearcher (2,391) · university teacher (751) · basketball player (554) · writer (403) · politician (314) · lawyer (251) · mathematician (245) · journalist (186)
Nobel laureates who studied here
- Craig Mello Medicine 2006
- Q16730042 Economics 2021
- Douglas Diamond Economics 2022
The portrait wall
Sized by nothing, ordered by Wikipedia footprint (language editions).
Emma Watson
144 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Ted Turner
73 wikis · Public domain
John Krasinski
59 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Laura Linney
57 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Richard Holbrooke
54 wikis · Public domain
Craig Mello
54 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Timothy Snyder
48 wikis · CC BY 4.0
Julie Bowen
47 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
Jim Yong Kim
47 wikis · CC BY 4.0
Nicanor Parra
46 wikis · CC BY 3.0 cl
Marilynne Robinson
45 wikis · GFDL 1.2
John F. Kennedy Jr.
45 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
Randy Pausch
44 wikis · Public domain
Charles Evans Hughes
44 wikis · Public domain
Also recorded: David Lodge.
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Provenance
- U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, 2026-06 release. Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Suppressed values are null, never imputed.
- Annual Scorecard files 1996-2026. A null in early years usually means the measure was not yet collected, not zero.
- Coordinates and locale describe the campus address, not where students live.
- Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
- Images are from Wikimedia Commons under free licenses. Render the credit line (artist + license) with every image.
- Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1364033147), CC BY-SA 4.0.