Brown University, one of the world's distinguished universities, is ideally situated in the East Side/College Hill residential section of Providence, Rhode Island, and is five minutes from the center of the city. Brown is a member of the Ivy League, and a coeducational institution where one of the most innovative and flexible curricula in the nation combines with over two hundred years of New England tradition to form an academic community of intellectual depth and social diversity. Founded in 1764 as Rhode Island College, the nation's seventh and New England's third oldest college, the school was moved to Providence in 1770 and its name was changed to Brown University in recognition of the contributions of Nicholas
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