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About Brandeis University

Brandeis University is a private research university with a liberal arts focus and it's located in Waltham, which is a city in the US state of Massachusetts, in Middlesex County, with a population estimated at a number of more than 59 000 inhabitants, during the 2000 census.

Brandeis was established in 1948, as a nonsectarian coeducational institution on the site of the former Middlesex University, its founders including Israel Goldstein, George Alpert, C. Ruggles Smith, Albert Einstein, and Abram L. Sachar. It was named after Louis Dembitz Brandeis, the first Jewish Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

The university currently has an enrollment of approximately 3 200 undergraduate and 2 100 graduate students, and offers a total of 43 majors and 47 minors, in various areas of study.

Athletics

Brandeis' athletic teams call themselves the Brandeis Judges and they compete in the University Athletic Association (UAA) conference of the NCAA Division III, with 10 varsity teams for both men and women, and 1 co-ed varsity team. Their distinctive colors are blue and white and their mascot is Ollie the Owl (named for Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.).

Notable Alumni

Among Brandeis University's noteworthy graduates we also find: Ilan Berman - Vice President of the American Foreign Policy Council, David Oshinsky - Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, professor, Philip Rubin - Cognitive scientist, CEO and senior scientist, Haskins Laboratories, and Alan Taylor - Pulitzer-Prize-winning historian, professor at UC Davis.