Brandeis University
This page is about the university; if you're looking for the Supreme Court Justice, see Louis Brandeis
Brandeis University is a small, private university in Waltham, Massachusetts. It is located in the southwestern corner of Waltham, 10 miles from Boston.
Founded in 1948 on the site of the former Middlesex University, Brandeis is the youngest private research university, as well as the only nonsectarian Jewish-sponsored college or university in the United States. The university is named for the late United States Supreme Court Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis.
About Brandeis
As of 2003, the university had approximately 3000 undergraduates, 1300 graduate students and 500 faculty members.
The schools of the University include:
Brandeis is also known as home to the Rose Art Museum, a museum of modern and contemporary art.
The Brandeis University Press publishes books in a variety of scholarly and general interest fields.
The university's athletic teams ("The Judges") compete in the University Athletic Association (UAA) conference of the NCAA Division III.
Majors
The College of Arts and Sciences is comprised of 24 departments and 22 interdepartmental programs, which offer 38 majors and 42 minors.
Bachelor of Arts
Bachelor of Science
Minors and Programs
Notable faculty
Notable alumni
- Nova, the longest-running science documentary series and winner of eight Emmy Awards
- Elliot Aronson: Psychologist
- University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
- Bernard Coard: Grenadian politician who led the coup that ousted Maurice Bishop
- Tyne Daly: Actress
- Angela Yvonne Davis: Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Radical activist
- Actress
- Thomas L. Friedman: Foreign Affairs Columnist for The New York Times, the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for international reporting and a National Book Award
- Dangerous Beauty, Producer and Screenwriter of Last Samurai, Producer of I Am Sam, and Traffic
- Abbie Hoffman: Social and political activist, Co-founder of the Youth International Party ("Yippies")
- John Hopps: Physicist, Politician
- The New York Times Sunday theater critic and winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
- Ha Jin: Novelist
- Emmy Award-winning television series Friends, and Cocreator of the comedy series Family Album, Dream On, and The Powers That Be
- Republic of Korea
- Novelist
- Leslie Lamport: Computer scientist
- Ambassador to the United States from the Republic of Turkey
- Roderick MacKinnon: Head of the Rockefeller University's Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology and Biophysics, Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2003
- Gates McFadden: Actress, best known as television series Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Fatema Mernissi: Leading authority on Koranic studies in the Arab world
- Debra Messing - Actress
- Dimitrij Rupel: Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia
- CNN's senior political analyst
- the President of the United States from 1993 - 1996
- U.S. Representative and Chairman of the Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs
- Michael Walzer: Professor of social science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton
