Brown University students value the University's open curriculum and the freedom they have to shape their own academic program. By crafting your own curriculum with the guidance and assistance of your advisors and teachers, you will be challenged to define liberal education for yourself. As true of all the Ivy League universities, you will be encouraged to explore widely across the disciplines. In doing so you will learn the powers and limits of different ways of knowing.

Brown University students and faculty are typically innovative, creative, and intellectually restless, never satisfied with the conventional way of doing things, always eager to cross boundaries and to experiment with new approaches to solving problems.

One of the most important goals of a liberal education at Brown University is to develop active learners who take responsibility for their own education. If you're considering Rhode Island private colleges, know that you will have extraordinary independence here and an array of intellectual and creative opportunities. Deans, faculty, and the many groups of peer advisors stand ready to help you make wise choices and find your way. To be an individual, you will find, requires a community, because we all have the power to help and enrich each other.

Brown University's three schools offer nearly 100 programs of study. The University adheres to a collaborative university-college model in which faculty are as committed to teaching as they are to research, embracing a curriculum that requires students to be architects of their education. Students participate in more than 300 organizations at Brown. In addition, students have the opportunity to join one of Brown's 37 varsity athletic teams or compete at the club and intramural levels.Opportunities abound for students attending this gem among Rhode Island private colleges.