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Brandeis Blue - #0070FF

Brandeis University is an American private research university with a liberal arts focus. It is located in Waltham, Massachusetts, nine miles (14 km) west of Boston. The university has an enrollment of approximately 3,500 undergraduate and 2,100 graduate students.

Brandeis was founded in 1948 as a nonsectarian Jewish-sponsored coeducational institution on the site of the former Middlesex University. The university is named for Louis Brandeis (1856-1941), the first Jewish Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

In 1954 Brandeis inaugurated a graduate program and became fully accredited. In 1985, Brandeis was elected to membership in the Association of American Universities, an association that focuses on graduate education and research. Wien International Scholarship is a scholarship instituted by Brandeis University for international undergraduate students. The Wien International Scholarship was established in 1958 by Lawrence A. and Mae Wien.