There are 9 ways to get from Detroit to Brown University by plane, bus, train, bus (Amtrak, Flixbus), car, or bus (Greyhound)
Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2Rio's travel planner.
Fly Detroit to Theodore Francis Green State Airport
best- Fly from Detroit (DTW) to Theodore Francis Green State Airport (PVD)plane DTW - PVD
5h 37m$68–389Bus, train
- Take the bus from Detroit Bus Station to Toledo Bus Stopbus
- Take the train from Toledo to Bostontrain
- Take the train from Boston to Providencetrain
20h 12m$433–1,337Bus via Toledo
- Take the bus from Detroit to Toledobus
- Take the bus from Toledo Bus Stop to New York Midtownbus
- Take the bus from New York Midtown to Providencebus
20h 20mDrive 697 mi
- Drive from Detroit to Brown Universitycar 697 mi
12h 14m$120–173Fly Detroit to Boston Logan Airport, train
- Fly from Detroit (DTW) to Boston Logan Airport (BOS)plane DTW - BOS
- Take the train from Boston to Providencetrain
5h 36m$488–1,711Bus to Cleveland-Hopkins International Airport, fly to Boston Logan Airport, train
- Take the bus from Detroit Bus Station to Cleveland Bus Stationbus
- Fly from Cleveland-Hopkins International Airport (CLE) to Boston Logan Airport (BOS)plane CLE - BOS
- Take the train from Boston to Providencetrain
7h 57m$178–1,205Fly Detroit to Laguardia Airport, train
- Fly from Detroit (DTW) to Laguardia Airport (LGA)plane DTW - LGA
- Take the train from Ny Moynihan Train Hall At Penn Station to Providencetrain
8h 27m$255–618Fly Detroit to Newark Liberty International Airport, train
- Fly from Detroit (DTW) to Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR)plane DTW - EWR
- Take the train from Ny Moynihan Train Hall At Penn Station to Providencetrain
8h 25m$304–1,141Bus
- Take the bus from Detroit Bus Station to Port Authority Bus Terminalbus Greyhound US0420
- Take the bus from New York to Providencebus Bz 0210
22h 25m$166–258
Detroit to Brown University by bus, train, and foot
Comparing Your Travel Options
The cheapest way to get from Detroit to Brown University is to drive which costs $110 - $180 and takes 12h 14m.
The fastest way to get from Detroit to Brown University is to fly and train which takes 5h 36m and costs $480 - $1,800.
No, there is no direct bus from Detroit to Brown University. However, there are services departing from Woodward & Gratiot and arriving at Providence via Detroit, Toledo Bus Stop and New York Midtown. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 20h 20m.
The distance between Detroit and Brown University is 648 miles. The road distance is 701.1 miles.
The best way to get from Detroit to Brown University without a car is to bus and train which takes 20h 12m and costs $430 - $1,400.
It takes approximately 5h 37m to get from Detroit to Brown University, including transfers.
Detroit to Brown University bus services, operated by Amtrak, depart from Detroit station.
The best way to get from Detroit to Brown University is to fly which takes 5h 37m and costs $65 - $390. Alternatively, you can bus via Toledo, which costs and takes 20h 20m.
Detroit to Brown University bus services, operated by Amtrak, arrive at Toledo station.
Yes, the driving distance between Detroit to Brown University is 701 miles. It takes approximately 12h 14m to drive from Detroit to Brown University.
What companies run services between Detroit, MI, USA and Brown University, RI, USA?
Delta, United Airlines, and two other airlines fly from Detroit (DTW) to Theodore Francis Green State Airport (PVD) every 4 hours. Alternatively, you can take a bus from Woodward & Gratiot to Brown University via Woodward & Baltimore, Detroit, Toledo Bus Stop, New York Midtown, and Providence in around 20h 20m.
- Website
- delta.com
Flights from Detroit to Theodore Francis Green State Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $65–380
Flights from Detroit to Boston Logan Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 56m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $110–650
Flights from Detroit to Boston Logan Airport via Pittsburgh
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 27m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $110–650
Flights from Cleveland-Hopkins International Airport to Boston Logan Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 56m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $95–600
Flights from Cleveland-Hopkins International Airport to Boston Logan Airport via Detroit
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 54m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $110–600
Flights from Cleveland-Hopkins International Airport to Boston Logan Airport via Laguardia Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 1m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $100–600
Flights from Detroit to Laguardia Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 47m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $120–750
Flights from Detroit to Laguardia Airport via Pittsburgh
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 33m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $130–750
Flights from Detroit to Laguardia Airport via Cleveland-Hopkins International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 56m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $120–750
Flights from Detroit to Newark Liberty International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 44m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $70–440
- Website
- united.com
Flights from Detroit to Theodore Francis Green State Airport via Washington Dulles
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 1m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $75–400
Flights from Detroit to Boston Logan Airport via Toronto
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 17m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $110–650
Flights from Cleveland-Hopkins International Airport to Boston Logan Airport via Newark Liberty International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 54m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $100–600
Flights from Cleveland-Hopkins International Airport to Boston Logan Airport via Washington Dulles
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 58m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $110–600
Flights from Detroit to Laguardia Airport via Washington Dulles
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 49m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $140–800
Flights from Detroit to Newark Liberty International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 54m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $70–440
Flights from Detroit to Newark Liberty International Airport via Washington Dulles
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $80–460
Flights from Detroit to Newark Liberty International Airport via Toronto
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 9m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $75–450
- Website
- aircanada.com
Flights from Detroit to Boston Logan Airport via Toronto
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 17m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $110–650
Flights from Detroit to Newark Liberty International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 54m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $70–440
Flights from Detroit to Newark Liberty International Airport via Toronto
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 9m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $75–450
- Website
- jetblue.com
Flights from Detroit to Boston Logan Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $110–650
Flights from Cleveland-Hopkins International Airport to Boston Logan Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 56m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $95–600
- Website
- aa.com
Flights from Detroit to Theodore Francis Green State Airport via Reagan Washington
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 29m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- $75–400
Flights from Detroit to Laguardia Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $120–750
- Website
- southwest.com
Flights from Detroit to Theodore Francis Green State Airport via Baltimore
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 37m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, Sunday, Tuesday, and Wednesday
- Estimated price
- $70–400
Flights from Cleveland-Hopkins International Airport to Boston Logan Airport via Baltimore
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 52m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, Sunday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $100–600
- Website
- flyfrontier.com
Flights from Detroit to Laguardia Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 44m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- $150–450
Rome2Rio's guide to Amtrak
Contact Details
- Phone
- +1 800-872-7245
- Website
- Amtrak
Train from Toledo to Boston
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 53m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $420–700
- Website
- Amtrak
Train from Boston to Providence
- Ave. Duration
- 34 min
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- $23–40
- Website
- Amtrak
Train from Boston to Providence
- Ave. Duration
- 34 min
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- $23–40
- Website
- Amtrak
Train from Boston to Providence
- Ave. Duration
- 34 min
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- $23–40
- Website
- Amtrak
Train from Ny Moynihan Train Hall At Penn Station to Providence
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 31m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- $100–160
- Website
- Amtrak
Train from Ny Moynihan Train Hall At Penn Station to Providence
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 31m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- $100–160
- Website
- Amtrak
Train from Boston to Providence
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 5m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $7–14
- Website
- Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
- Website
- MBTA: World Cup 2026
- Adult
- $7–14
Train from Boston to Providence
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 5m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $7–14
- Website
- Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
- Website
- MBTA: World Cup 2026
- Adult
- $7–14
Train from Boston to Providence
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 5m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $7–14
- Website
- Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
- Website
- MBTA: World Cup 2026
- Adult
- $7–14
Rome2Rio's guide to Amtrak Acela
Contact Details
- Phone
- +1 800-872-7245
- Website
- Amtrak
Train from Boston to Providence
- Ave. Duration
- 34 min
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $9–600
- Schedules at
- Amtrak Acela
- Website
- Amtrak
- Business Class
- $9–440
- First Class
- $100–600
Train from Boston to Providence
- Ave. Duration
- 34 min
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $9–600
- Schedules at
- Amtrak Acela
- Website
- Amtrak
- Business Class
- $9–440
- First Class
- $100–600
Train from Boston to Providence
- Ave. Duration
- 34 min
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $9–600
- Schedules at
- Amtrak Acela
- Website
- Amtrak
- Business Class
- $9–440
- First Class
- $100–600
Train from Ny Moynihan Train Hall At Penn Station to Providence
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $40–700
- Schedules at
- Amtrak Acela
- Website
- Amtrak
- Business Class
- $40–480
- First Class
- $180–700
Train from Ny Moynihan Train Hall At Penn Station to Providence
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $40–700
- Schedules at
- Amtrak Acela
- Website
- Amtrak
- Business Class
- $40–480
- First Class
- $180–700
Rome2Rio's guide to Greyhound USA
Contact Details
- Phone
- +1 214-849-8100
- [email protected]
- Website
- Greyhound
Bus from Detroit Bus Station to Toledo Bus Stop
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 5m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $10–16
- Website
- Greyhound
Bus from Detroit Bus Station to Cleveland Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $28–45
- Website
- Greyhound
Bus from Detroit Bus Station to Port Authority Bus Terminal
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 15m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $130–200
- Website
- Greyhound
- Phone
- +1 888-378-3823
- [email protected]
- Website
- Barons Bus
Bus from Detroit Bus Station to Toledo Bus Stop
- Ave. Duration
- 1h
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $5–40
- Website
- Barons Bus
Rome2Rio's guide to Amtrak
Contact Details
- Phone
- +1 800-872-7245
- Website
- Amtrak
Bus from Detroit to Toledo
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 5m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Website
- Amtrak
- Phone
- +1 (855) 626-8585
- Website
- Flixbus USA
Bus from Toledo Bus Stop to New York Midtown
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 5m
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- $100–160
- Schedules at
- Flixbus USA
Bus from New York Midtown to Providence
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $28–45
- Schedules at
- Flixbus USA
- Phone
- 1-800-343-9999
- Website
- Peter Pan
Bus from New York to Providence
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $35–65
- Website
- Peter Pan
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