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Brown University is a private university and member of the Ivy League located in Providence, Rhode Island. It was founded as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in 1764, prior to American independence from the British Empire and early in the reign of King George III (1760–1820). Brown is the third-oldest institution of higher education in New England and seventh oldest in the United States.