A Brown education is more affordable than you may think. Brown meets 100% of demonstrated need, actively seeks students from all income groups, and practices need-blind admission — meaning whether or not a student can pay the cost to attend is not a factor in our admission decisions. Through an initiative called The Brown Promise, the University has eliminated loans from all undergraduate financial aid packages, enabling you to graduate debt-free.

Spend three minutes answering six basic financial questions, and the MyinTuition calculator will provide you with a personalized estimate of what you might expect to pay for one year at Brown. Brown covers full tuition for families earning $125,000 or less with typical assets and meets a wide range of financial needs.

Learn more about Brown’s Financial Aid

Brown’s community of faculty, staff, peers and alumni ensures that new students are surrounded by a network of support to help them thrive on campus. From programming at the U-FLi Center (Undocumented, First-Generation College and Low-Income Student Center) to activities led by student leaders in the Third World Transition Program, Brown has the resources you need to help you feel at home and achieve your potential:

• Campus community centers

  Campus community centers with dedicated staff, peer mentoring programs and opportunities to engage with students around shared experiences

• Pre-Orientation programs

  Programs that focus on student interests, backgrounds and affinity, access to campus resources, and developing community and connection in your first days at college.

• 400+ active student-led groups

  Groups organized around academic focus, cultural background, hobbies and interests, and more

• Student health services

  Full range of student health services, including mental health treatment and prevention services in an inclusive, compassionate and socially just environment

• English language support programs

  Accessibility services for students with disabilities and many support programs that meet students where they are and provide resources to help you thrive inside and outside the classroom

• Multi-layered advising and mentorship

  Advising and mentorship environment that includes faculty and student peer academic advising, financial advising, writing and math services and tutoring

Brown’s model of career exploration helps prepare you to land that first job and navigate a lifetime of evolving career opportunities. The Center for Career Exploration provides dedicated career counselors and mentors to support students with career programming, such as resume and interview workshops and professional panels. This includes support across six industry-specific career pathways: careers in the common good, technology, arts and media, finance and consulting, science and engineering and pre-law and pre-med.

Brown also makes sure that students have the funding needed to engage in internships and career-related experiences to gain skills and experience before graduation. And thanks to an expansive mentoring and professional community of alumni and families, students develop a robust network in which to seek guidance and identify experiences that can lead to fulfilling jobs.

Launch a Career at Brown

The most important consideration in Brown’s admission process is high school performance and preparedness, including not just grades but also skills mastery, teacher recommendations and the depth and breadth of your academic learning both in and out of the classroom.

While Brown requires standardized test scores, we view them in the context of each student’s personal experience, and there are no minimum scores required for admission. This means that we see many applicants whose test scores may be below the very competitive average of the Brown admitted class, but perhaps well above the average at their high school. This shows us your excellence in context and can help to inform our admission decisions.

Every student follows their own path through Brown. Meet some of our students.