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| Yale University | |
| Motto | אורים ותמים - Lux et veritas (Light and truth) |
| Established | 1701 |
| School type | Private |
| President | Richard C. Levin |
| Location | New Haven, Connecticut, USA |
| Campus | Urban 800+ acres (3.2 km²) |
| Enrollment | 5,350 undergraduate, 6,000 graduate and professional |
| Faculty | 2,300 |
| Mascot | Bulldogs - "Handsome Dan" |
| Athletics | 35 sports teams |
| Homepage | http://www.yale.edu/' class='external' title="http://www.yale.edu/">www.yale.edu |
Yale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701, Yale is the third oldest American collegiate institution (or fourth, if St. John's College, Annapolis is included) and one of the most prestigious in the world. The University has graduated numerous Nobel Prize winners and U.S. Presidents. Its $12.7 billion academic endowment is the second largest of any university, behind only Harvard.
Yale is one of the eight members of the Ivy League. The rivalry between Yale and fellow Ivy Harvard University is long and storied; from academics to rowing to college football, their historic competition is similar to that of Oxford and Cambridge.
Yale's emphasis on undergraduateIn most educational systems, an undergraduate is a post-secondary student pursuing a Bachelor's degree. Students of higher degrees are known as postgraduates (or often simply graduates). In the United States, most undergraduate education takes place at fo teaching is unusual among its peer research universities, and its undergraduates live in a unique residential college system. Yale's graduate schools include strong drama and arts programs and the most selective law schoolYale Law School is one of the professional schools of Yale University, and is the most selective law school in the United States, according to US News. It offers the following degrees: J. It also has a visiting scholars program and is home to a number of in the United States.
Yale traces its beginnings to "An Act for Liberty to Erect a Collegiate School" passed by the General Court of the Colony of Connecticut and dated October 9October 9 is the 282nd day of the year (283rd in Leap years). There are 83 days remaining. Events 1000 Leif Ericson discovers Vinland, becoming the first known European to set foot in North America. 1238 James I of Aragon conquered Valencia and founded th, 1701, which was furthered by a meeting in Branford1820 on the site of the meeting that established Yale University. Branford is a town located in New Haven County, Connecticut. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 28,683. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the to, Connecticut by a group of ten Congregationalist ministers, now known collectively as the Founders, who pooled their books to form the school's first library. The school first opened in the home of its first rector, Abraham Pierson in Killingworth, Connecticut. In 1716, the school moved to New Haven, Connecticut, where it remains to this day.
The college was originally known as the Collegiate School; it adopted the name Yale after Cotton Mather, a friend of the Collegiate School because of his feuds with Harvard, contacted Elihu Yale for help (at the behest of either Rector Andrew or Governor Saltonstall). Yale bestowed a generous gift of nine bales of goods (which the school sold, netting over £560, a substantial sum of money at the time), 417 books, and a portrait of King George I. Yale expanded gradually, establishing the Yale Medical School (1810), Yale Divinity School (1822), Yale Law School (1843), Yale Graduate School of Art s and Sciences (1847), the Yale School of Fine Arts (1869), and Yale School of Music (1894). In the early 20th century, Yale merged with the Sheffield Scientific School .