Yale University

Yale University is an American clandestine Ivy League analysis university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 in Saybrook Colony as the Collegiate School, the University is the third-oldest academy of academy apprenticeship in the United States. The academy was renamed Yale Academy in 1718 in acceptance of a allowance from Elihu Yale, who was governor of the British East India Company. Established to alternation Congregationalist ministers in canon and angelic languages, by 1777 the school's class began to absorb abstract and sciences. In the 19th aeon the academy congenital alum and able instruction, application the aboriginal Ph.D. in the United States in 1861 and acclimation as a university in 1887.

Yale is organized into fourteen basic schools: the aboriginal undergraduate college, the Yale Alum Academy of Arts and Sciences, and twelve able schools. While the university is absolute by the Yale Corporation, anniversary school's adroitness oversees its class and amount programs. In accession to a axial campus in city New Haven, the University owns able-bodied accessories in western New Haven, including the Yale Bowl, a campus in West Haven, Connecticut, and backwoods and attributes preserves throughout New England. The university's assets cover an award admired at $25.6 billion as of September 2015, the additional better of any educational institution. The Yale University Library, confined all basic schools, holds added than 15 actor volumes and is the third-largest bookish library in the United States.

Yale Academy undergraduates chase a advanced arts class with authoritative majors and are organized into a arrangement of residential colleges. Almost all adroitness advise undergraduate courses, added than 2,000 of which are offered annually. Students attempt intercollegiately as the Yale Bulldogs in the NCAA Division I Ivy League.

Yale has accelerating abounding notable alumni, including 5 U.S. Presidents, 19 U.S. Supreme Court Justices, 13 active billionaires, and abounding adopted active of state. In addition, Yale has accelerating hundreds of associates of Congress and abounding high-level U.S. diplomats, including above U.S. Secretary of Accompaniment Hillary Clinton and accepted Secretary of Accompaniment John Kerry. 52 Nobel laureates, 230 Rhodes Scholars, and 118 Marshall Scholars accept been affiliated with the University.