About Brown

Brown University is a private ivy-league institution located in Providence, Rhode Island, about 3.5 hours away from NYC by train or car. Unlike other American colleges and universities, Brown has no required core curriculum nor distribution requirements that students must complete in order to graduate. Students at Brown have unparalleled freedom to shape their own education and to make their college curricula a more thorough reflection of their own interests and aspirations. Brown meets 100 percent of demonstrated financial needs. We have eliminated packaged loans from all undergraduate financial aid awards. Our generous financial aid ensures that financial considerations do not prevent talented students from choosing Brown. For more information on the Brown undergraduate admission process go to https://admission.brown.edu/

The Computer Science Department at Brown offers a wide range of options to begin or continue studying CS, regardless of your background and interests. Our program is designed to combine educational breadth in software, systems, and theoretical CS with a deeper understanding of one or more thematic areas selected by each student. In addition to a vast array of course offerings, Brown CS also has many undergraduate research opportunities for students. Research at Brown crosses traditional boundaries, and projects spring from shared interests more than from established groups. Faculty work closely with post-doctoral students, graduate students, and undergraduates, drawing ideas and expertise from other disciplines and departments, and a tradition of combining theory and practice remains as strong and relevant today as it was forty years ago. We are a diverse community of scholars engaged in all aspects of research, teaching, and mentoring in computer science and its related interdisciplinary disciplines. Realizing the importance of computing and algorithmic thinking in so many scientific, social and technological endeavors, we collaborate extensively with colleagues in archaeology, applied mathematics, biology, cognitive and linguistic sciences, economics, engineering, mathematics, medicine, physics, and neuroscience. For more information on the Brown CS department go to http://cs.brown.edu/