Brown and its majors

fireandrain
Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:23:24 +0000

Actually, since the New Curriculum – or since the early 80s – the number of concentrations (which is what majors are called at Brown) has more than doubled. Many of the independent concentrations were so popular they were made official (environmental science is one example of this). It is much much harder to do an independent concentration now than 30 years ago.

Brown says it has over 100 concentrations. That seems like a lot to me. I haven’t looked at the other Ivies – how many do the other schools have? Which ones are missing at Brown?

Another point is that Brown doesn’t have separate schools, the way Penn and Cornell do.