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| Motto | "אמת" ("Emet", Hebrew for "Truth") |
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| Established | 1948 |
| School type | Private |
| President | Jehuda Reinharz |
| Location | Waltham, Massachusetts, USA |
| Enrollment | 3,051 undergraduate, 1,346 graduate |
| Faculty | 465 |
| Campus | Suburban, 235 acres (1 kmē) |
| Mascot | Ollie, the Owl |
| Homepage | www.brandeis.edu |
Brandeis University is a small, private university in Waltham, Massachusetts. It is located in the southwestern corner of Waltham, 10 miles from Boston. Founded in 1948 on the site of the former Middlesex University, Brandeis is the youngest private research university, as well as the only nonsectarian Jewish-sponsored college or university in the United States. The university is named for the late United States Supreme Court Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis.
As of 2003, the university had approximately 3000 undergraduates, 1300 graduate students and 500 faculty members.
The schools of the University include:
Brandeis is also known as home to the Rose Art Museum , a museumA museum is a non-profit making, permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, and open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits, for purposes of study, education and enjoyment, material evi of modern and contemporary art.
The Brandeis University Press publishes books in a variety of scholarly and general interest fields.
The university's athletic teams ("The Judges") compete in the University Athletic AssociationThe University Athletic Association UAA is an athletic conference which competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) Division III. Member teams are located in Georgia, Illinois, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Ohio and New York (UAA) conference of the NCAA Division III.