Graduate School
Facts about Doctoral and MFA Education at Brown
Graduate Programs
47
Doctoral
3
MFA
Graduate Students
1,496
Enrolled Doctoral and MFA Students
98 %
Doctoral
2 %
MFA
47 %
Female
53 %
Male
Admission for 2018-19
Doctoral and master's students only
11,682 %
Applications
2,267
Admitted
821
Matriculants
19 %
Selectivity, Overall
10.5 %
Selectivity, PhD
42 %
International
Funding
Ph.D. students are admitted based on merit and are automatically eligible for University financial support for five years of study, regardless of nationality.
Data as of November 2025; additional data are available on the Office of Institutional Research website.