Брандейский университет

Sited in Waltham, Mass., on 235 attractive suburban acres, Brandeis is in an ideal location just nine miles west of Boston.

Brandeis’ beautiful 235-acre campus offers the best of both worlds — safety and security, as well as quick and easy access to Boston. The majority of Brandeis’ 3,700 undergraduate students live on campus each year.

The Department of Community Living cultivates an inclusive, diverse, and symbiotic living and learning environment in all of residence halls. Community members are empowered to respectfully challenge each other and engage in opportunities of holistic enrichment through critical thinking, constructive dialogue, and leadership development.

The university has an active student government, the Brandeis Student Union, as well as more than 270 student organizations and 19 varsity sports (nine men’s and 10 women’s). Fraternities and sororities are officially prohibited by Brandeis University, as they are contrary to a central tenet of the university, namely, that student organizations be open to all students, with membership determined by competency or interest. 

Aside from on-campus entertainment and activities, students prefer to to hang out in Waltham as well as Boston. The good thing is that it is very easy to get to the city with the Brandeis free shuttle.

There are a variety of comfortable and enjoyable on-campus housing options at Brandeis. First year students live in either Massell or North, both of which are traditional style hall living arrangements containing single, double and triple rooms. Midyear students live in the Village during the spring semester.

All apartments have a kitchen area and private bathroom. The Castle offers traditional hall style living and suite living arrangements. Rooms are singles, doubles, natural triples or lofted triples. Residence halls are either traditional corridor style, suite style or apartment style. Rooms on traditional style halls open up onto a hallway and have communal bathroom facilities. Suite-style rooms share a common living area and have private bathrooms for the suite. Apartment-style rooms share a kitchen and private bathrooms. Some apartment spaces share a common living area too. Students are responsible for cleaning common areas in suites and apartments, including bathrooms, kitchens and living areas. Students in suites and apartments must also provide their own paper products.

The Hiatt Career Center assists students and alumni in developing the skills to transform their unique backgrounds, liberal arts education and experiential learning into meaningful professional futures and relationships.  Hiatt engages employers, colleagues, parents and families and the greater Brandeis community to achieve this mission.

Total undergraduate costs for nine-month academic year, 2016–2017 are about $70,000 for a non-resident living on-campus. This sum includes tuition and fees - about $50,000 per year, books and supplies - $1,500, room and board - $14,000, personal and transportation costs - $2,500.

Characterized by academic excellence since its founding in 1948, Brandeis is one of the youngest private research universities, as well as the only nonsectarian Jewish-sponsored college or university in the United States. Named for the late Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis of the U.S. Supreme Court, Brandeis University combines the faculty and resources of a world-class research institution with the intimacy and personal attention of a small liberal arts college.

For students that means unsurpassed access — both in and out of the classroom — to a faculty renowned for groundbreaking research, scholarship and artistic output. At Brandeis professors bring newly minted knowledge straight from the field or lab to the graduate and undergraduate classrooms.

Brandeis supports an innovative and exciting program of learning that emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach to knowledge and the solution of real-life problems. Undergraduates, from the very first year, enjoy leadership positions and research opportunities typically available only to upperclass and graduate students.

Over the years, Brandeis University Press – the institution’s publishing arm – has won several National Jewish Books Awards and been shortlisted as a finalist multiple times.

The university describes itself as a liberal arts college, a global research university and a hub of scholars and students devoted to ‘the pursuit of knowledge and its transmission from generation to generation’.

Being a research institute, it emphasises the progression of the arts and humanities, and social, natural and physical science. As a university focussing on the liberal arts, it believes in the need for students to have a ‘broad and critical education’ to enhance their lives and enable them to fully participate in an evolving society.

Within its faculty, the university comprises fellows of both the American Association for Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as members of the National Academies, Howard Hughes medical investigators and MacArthur fellows. 

Pulitzer Prize winners, leading authors and a Nobel laureate can be found among the university’s alumni, as well as the creators of the American television series Friends, David Crane and Marta Kauffman. Among the better-known graduates are co-creators of the television show Friends David Crane and Marta Kauffman, political activists Abbie Hoffman and Angela Davis, journalists Thomas Friedman and Paul Solman, Congressman Stephen J. Solarz, physicist and Fields medalist Edward Witten, novelist Ha Jin, political theorist Michael Walzer, actress Debra Messing, philosopher Michael Sandel, Olympic Silver Medalist fencer Tim Morehouse, social and psychoanalytic theorist Nancy Chodorow, author Mitch Albom, filmmaker Jonathan Newman, music producer Jon Landau, computer scientist Leslie Lamport and Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz.

Brandeis is ranked in the top tier of the nation's universities. Universities’ graduates depart is to pursue careers in a wide array of fields, and advanced studies in the nation's leading graduate and professional schools. 

Brandeis was tied for 34th among national universities in the United States in the U.S. News & World Report rankings 2015. Forbes listed Brandeis as 36th nationally for research and the 37th for entrepreneurship 2016. Times ranks it 185th globally while USA Today ranks it among the top 10 in the country for economics in 2016.

The most popular majors in Brandeis are Biology/Biological Sciences, Economics and Psychology. The university has a strong liberal arts focus and a quarter of its students come from outside the United States.

The university is also home to the Heller School, ranked as one of the top 10 policy schools in the United States.

The schools of the University include:

• The Brandeis University College of Arts and Sciences;
• The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences;
• The Heller School for Social Policy and Management;
• Rabb School of Summer and Continuing Studies;
• Brandeis International Business School.