<p>Brown offers a vast variety of programs. How come there’s no school of business?</p>
<p>Because Brown doesn't offer pre-professional programs historically, the exceptions being engineering (third oldest program in the country), a limited teacher certification program, and public health (which was held up for years in faculty debates until there was "proof" enough that there existed an academic field of study).</p>
<p>Brown doesn't believe its purpose to be teaching you a job skill, it's to provide a liberal arts education.</p>
<p>Brown doesn't have a busi school but they have a business program called Commerce, Organizations, Entrepreneurship.</p>
<p>COE has some very business like components but since it's focus is entrepreneurship it is structured quite different from a typical business curriculum and benefits from a whole host of resources most business departments would not consider tapping into while it suffers from the lack of dedicated business professors/school.</p>
<p>It's not really the same, though it's a path people considering business elsewhere may want to look at.</p>