Brown University (1) is a well-known member of the Ivy League and one of the famous universities in the United States. 1764 was founded as Rhode Island College, the seventh oldest university in the United States. Its enrollment competition is extremely fierce, and the undergraduate enrollment rate is only 9.5%. One of the biggest characteristics of this school is that it is small and sophisticated. Today, with the increasing university population, Brown University still maintains a strict enrollment system and a very high entrance threshold. The teacher-student ratio is about 1:8, and it is a small elite private research university. There are 6 182 undergraduates, only 1974 postgraduates and 736 full-time teachers. But in such a small team of teachers, five Nobel Prize winners and two alumni also won the Nobel Prize. Famous alumni of Brown University include: John Kennedy Jr., son of President Kennedy; Amy Carter, President Carter's daughter; Santos, the daughter of the Colombian President; Yang Wei, director of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (former president of Zhejiang University); John Davison Rockefeller, Jr., the second generation head of Rockefeller family; Thomas Jr., pioneer of IBM; Janet yellen, the first female chairman of the Federal Reserve; Ted turner, the founder of CNN; And Emma Charlotte Doyle Watson, who played Hermione in the famous movie Harry Potter. 20 16 college fact's ranking of the best universities in the United States 5 220 15 Forbes-Forbes American university ranking: 8 320 15 American news-undergraduate American university undergraduate ranking: