Brown University in popular culture

Like other members of the Ivy League, it is known for prestige, academic rigor and selective undergraduate admissions process.

Among its peers, Brown is noted for a culture of campus activism and longstanding commitment to academic and intellectual freedom exemplified by its Open Curriculum and course "shopping period.

"[4][5][6] Brown is consistently referenced in popular culture, including in works of cinema, television, music, and the written word.

[7][8][9] Josiah Carberry – Professor of Psychoceramics (the study of cracked pots), who was created as a joke in 1929 and who has become a tradition at Brown.

There is an organization of alums called "Friends of Josiah" that meets for dinner on the Brown campus on Friday the 13th.

H. P. Lovecraft fictional Miskatonic University may have been modeled off of Brown [ 11 ]
The 1924 novel The Plastic Age is set at a university widely believed to be a stand-in for Brown [ 16 ]
In How to Get Away with Murder , Laurel Castillo holds a degree from Brown
Clay Jensen in 13 Reasons Why plans to attend Brown after graduating from high school