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| type = [[Private university|Private]]
| academic_affiliations = {{unbulleted list|[[Association of American Universities|AAU]]|[[Universities Research Association|URA]]|[[National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities|NAICU]]|[[568 Group]]}}
| endowment = [[US$]]3.8 billion<ref>As of October 2, 2018. {{cite web |url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/money/browns-endowment-posts-132-25-gain-best-in-ivy-league-so-far/ar-BBNPTBW |publisher=Bloomberg.com |yeardate=October 2, 2018|title=Brown's Endowment Posts 13.2% Gain, Best in Ivy League So Far}}</ref> (2018)
| president = [[Christina Paxson]]
| provost = [[Richard M. Locke]]<ref>{{cite web|last1=Nickel|first1=Mark|title=Locke named 13th provost of Brown University|url=https://news.brown.edu/articles/2015/06/locke|website=News from Brown |publisher=Brown University|accessdate=14 September 2015|quote=Richard M. Locke ... has been appointed provost of the University ... [starting] July 1, 2015}}</ref>
===Spring weekend===
The weekend includes an annual spring concert festival which that has featured numerous famous artists.
=== Residential and Greek societies ===
* [[The Chattertocks of Brown University]]
* [[Chinese Students and Scholars Association]]
* ''[[The College Hill Independent]]''
* ''[[Critical Review (Brown)|Critical Review]]''
* [[Ivy Film Festival]]
LinkedIn particularized the ''Forbes'' rankings, placing Brown third (between MIT and Princeton) among "Best Undergraduate Universities for Software Developers at Startups." LinkedIn's methodology involved a career-path examination of "millions of alumni profiles" in its membership database.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.linkedin.com/edu/rankings/us/undergraduate-software-engineering-small?trk=edu-rankings-ctg-card|title=LinkedIn.com|publisher=}}</ref>
Brown ranked seventh in the country (between [[Princeton University|Princeton]] and Columbia) in a study of high school seniors' [[revealed preferences]] for matriculation conducted by economists at Harvard, Wharton, and Boston University, and published in 2005 by the [[National Bureau of Economic Research]].<ref>{{cite webjournal|ssrn=601105 |title=SSRN-A Revealed Preference Ranking of U.S. Colleges and Universities by (NBER Working Paper No. W10803) |first1=Christopher |last1=Avery, |first2=Mark |last2=Glickman, |first3=Caroline |last3=Hoxby, |first4=Andrew |last4=Metrick |publisher=Papers[[SSRN]] |date=December 2005 |doi=10.2139/ssrn.com |accessdate=February 22, 2010601105}}</ref> The 2008 Center for College Affordability and Productivity (CCAP) ranked Brown 5th in the country among national universities."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2008/0519/030.html|title=How to Choose a College|date=May 1, 2008|work=Forbes|accessdate=October 8, 2014}}</ref>
Brown ranked 5th in the country in [[Newsweek]]/[[The Daily Beast]]'s "America's Brainiac Schools"—based on the number of prestigious scholarships won (adjusted for student body size), including the [[Rhodes Scholarship]], the [[Truman Scholarship]], the [[Marshall Scholarship]], the [[Gates Scholarship]] (since 2001), and the [[Fulbright scholarship]] (since 1993). Also factored in are standardized test scores, admissions rates, and students in the top 10 percent of their high school class.<ref>{{cite web|title=America's Brainiac Colleges|url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/features/college-rankings/2011/brainiacs.all.html|publisher=The Daily Beast|accessdate=January 28, 2012}}</ref>
