Yale University

Yale University is private university in New Haven.It is one of the Ivy League schools. It was founded in 1701 and is the third oldest university in the United States. Yale was originally chartered by the colonial legislature of Connecticut as the Collegiate School and was held at Killingworth and other locations.Since its founding in 1701, Yale has been dedicated to expanding and sharing knowledge, inspiring innovation, and preserving cultural and scientific information for future generations.

Yale is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the country and ranks No. 5 on the Top Colleges list this year. The 1,153-acre campus in New Haven, CT, is home to 440 buildings and four museums, including the Peabody Museum of Natural History and the Collection of Musical Instruments. 

Undergraduate students can choose from more than 2,000 courses and 81 majors. The most popular majors are economics, political science, history and psychology. The library is one of the largest in the country and houses more than 15 million volumes. Yale boasts an endowment of $19.3 billion. Fifty-one percent of freshmen receive grants from the school averaging nearly $43,000. The Yale-Harvard sports rivalry dates back to 1875, when the two opposing teams donned Yale Blue and Harvard Crimson and thus invented the tradition of wearing school colors. The school’s bulldog mascot, named Handsome Dan, first walked across the football field in 1889. Five U.S. presidents graduated from Yale: George H.W. Bush ('48), George W. Bush ('68), Bill Clinton ('73, Law), Gerald Ford ('41, Law) and William Howard Taft (1878). U.S. vice president Joe Biden addressed the graduating class of 2015 during Class Day, part of Commencement.

Yale’s reach is both local and international. It partners with its hometown of New Haven, Connecticut to strengthen the city’s community and economy. And it engages with people and institutions across the globe in the quest to promote cultural understanding, improve the human condition, delve more deeply into the secrets of the universe, and train the next generation of world leaders.

Yale University is a large research university with a wide array of programs, departments, schools, centers, museums, and many affiliated organizations.