Yale University

Location and Contact Information

The campus is in a medium-sized city.

Overview

Yale University is a private, coeducational university located in New Haven, Connecticut.

Yale has a long history. The school's roots go back to the 1640s, when Colonial clergymen led an effort to establish a college in New Haven to preserve the tradition of European liberal education in the New World.

A charter was granted in 1701 for the Collegiate School. After several name and status changes, Yale gained university status in 1887.

Yale is the third oldest institution of higher education in the United States. It is a member of the Ivy League.

International students have attended ale since the 1830s, when the first Latin American student enrolled. Today international students make up about 8 percent of the total student population.

The university--which is comprised of Yale College, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the professional schools--offers various degrees and programs through the following academic divisions:

• Divinity School
• Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
• Institute of Sacred Music
• Law School
• School of Architecture
• School of Art
• School of Drama
• School of Engineering & Applied Science
• School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
• School of Management
• School of Medicine
• School of Music
• School of Nursing
• School of Public Health
• Yale College

Yale fields more than 35 varsity athletic teams that compete in the Ivy League Conference, the Eastern College Athletic Conference, and the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association. Yale is a NCAA Division I member.

The campus is home to more than 240 clubs and organizations, including several fraternities and sororities.

Yale houses of the world's great libraries--with more than 12 million holdings--and three public museums and galleries: Peabody Museum of Natural History, the University Art Gallery, and the Center for British Art.

Notable Yale alumni include former U.S. Presidents Gerald Ford and Bill Clinton; Harvard Law Professor Harold Dershowitz; Francis S. Collins, director of the Human Genome Project; Paul Krugman, economist and New York Times columnist; award-winning authors Sinclair Lewis, Stephen Vincent Benet, John Hersey and Thornton Wilder; playwrights Wendy Wasserstein and Lynn Nottage; journalist Bob Woodward; Samuel Alito, U.S. Supreme Court Justice; Benjamin Spock, child psychologist guru; Samuel F. B. Morse, inventor of the Morse Code; and Henry Louis Gates, professor and chair of Harvard University's African and African American Studies Department.

Highlights (vs. Other Schools)

• Many students concentrating in religion and philosophy, music, liberal arts, law, conservation and resource management, medicine, mathematics, science, drama and performing arts, and fine arts.
• High SAT scores (combined Verbal and Math).
• Selective admissions.
• High faculty salary.
• Large number of programs of study offered.
• High percentage of students are from out-of-state.
• Good faculty-to-student ratio.
• Large number of students.
• Number of dorm rooms for students.
• High yield: the portion of accepted students who enroll.
• High male/female ratio.

School characteristics:

• The school is private, not-for-profit.
• Academic calender: Semester.
• Carnegie classification: Doctoral/Research Universities, Extensive.

Features of note:

• The school offers a faculty tenure system.
• There are one or more libraries on-campus.
• Campus housing is available.
• Students may study abroad.
• Part-time classes are available.
• ROTC.

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Degrees Awarded (in 2009-2010)

Faculty

Tenure (2009-2010):

Students

Student enrollment was 10,192 in 2009-2010 (11,559 full-time equivalent).

About 50% of the freshmen class in 2009-2010 was male and women were 50% of the class.

Undergrads are 49% of enrolled students, graduate students are 41%, and those seeking first-professional graduate degrees represent 10%.

Students under 25 years old represent 61% of the student body. About 2% of the school is at least 40 years of age.

Admissions Summary (2009-2010)

SAT Test Scores:

Room and Board

Yale provides on-campus housing for 4,600 of its 11,559 (full-time) students (as of 2009-2010). The school requires freshmen to live on campus.

Athletics

School sports include football, basketball, baseball, and track. The school is in the Ivy Group for major sports.

Graduate School Focus

Yale offers graduate (post-Bachelor) studies. The highest degree offered is the Doctorate (Research/Scholarship & Professional Practice).

Graduate offerings include medical degrees.The school's Graduate School Carnegie Classification is Comprehensive Doctoral With Medical/Veterinary.

Programs of Study

(Number of degrees in 2009-2010 in parentheses)

ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING (78 awarded)

• Architecture (BArch, BA/BS, MArch, MA/MS, PhD)
• Environmental Design/Architecture

ART STUDIES (11 awarded)

• Art/Art Studies

BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT (205 awarded)

• Business Administration and Management

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING (30 awarded)

• Computer and Information Sciences

CONSERVATION AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (143 awarded)

• Environmental Studies
• Forestry

DRAMA AND PERFORMING ARTS (83 awarded)

• Drama and Dramatics/Theatre Arts

EDUCATION AND TEACHING (5 awarded)

• Urban Education and Leadership

ENGINEERING (165 awarded)

• Archeology
• Biomedical/Medical Engineering
• Chemical Engineering
• Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
• Engineering Physics
• Engineering Science
• Engineering
• Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering

FINE ARTS (97 awarded)

• Art History, Criticism and Conservation
• Fine/Studio Arts

LAW (240 awarded)

• Advanced Legal Research/Studies, Gen (LLM, MCL, MLI, MSL, JSD/SJD)
• Law (LLB, JD)

LIBERAL ARTS (1,265 awarded)

• African Studies
• African-American/Black Studies
• American/United States Studies/Civilization
• Ancient Near Eastern/Biblical Languages, Lit & Linguistics
• Ancient/Classical Greek Language and Literature
• Anthropology
• Area Studies
• Area, Ethnic, Cultural, and Gender Studies
• Chinese Language and Literature
• Chinese Studies
• Classics/Classical Languages, Lit & Linguistics
• Comparative Literature
• Development Economics and International Development
• East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
• East Asian Studies
• Economics
• English Language and Literature
• English Language and Literature/Letters
• Ethnic, Cultural Minority, and Gender Studies
• European Studies/Civilization
• French Language and Literature
• German Studies
• Germanic Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
• History
• Humanities/Humanistic Studies
• International Relations and Affairs
• International/Global Studies
• Italian Language and Literature
• Japanese Language and Literature
• Japanese Studies
• Latin American Studies
• Latin Language and Literature
• Linguistics
• Medieval and Renaissance Studies
• Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies
• Political Science and Government
• Portuguese Language and Literature
• Russian Language and Literature
• Russian Studies
• Semitic Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
• Slavic Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
• Sociology
• South Asian Studies
• Spanish Language and Literature
• Women's Studies

MATHEMATICS (91 awarded)

• Applied Mathematics
• Mathematics and Computer Science
• Mathematics
• Statistics

MEDICAL SUPPORT AND TECHNOLOGY (30 awarded)

• Physician Assistant

MEDICINE (256 awarded)

• Medical Scientist (MS, PhD)
• Medicine (MD)
• Neuroscience
• Public Health, General (MPH, DPH)

MUSIC (156 awarded)

• Music Performance
• Music

NURSING AND EMERGENCY MEDICINE (175 awarded)

• Nursing Administration (MSN, MS, PhD)
• Nursing Science (MS, PhD)
• Nursing/Registered Nurse (RN, ASN, BSN, MSN)

PHOTOGRAPHY AND COMMERCIAL ART (9 awarded)

• Film/Cinema Studies

RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY (228 awarded)

• Divinity/Ministry (BD, MDiv)
• Jewish/Judaic Studies
• Philosophy
• Religion/Religious Studies
• Theology and Religious Vocations
• Theology/Theological Studies

SCIENCE (435 awarded)

• Astronomy
• Astronomy and Astrophysics
• Biochemistry/Biophysics and Molecular Biology
• Biology/Biological Sciences
• Biomathematics and Bioinformatics
• Cell/Cellular Biology and Histology
• Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology
• Chemistry
• Evolutionary Biology
• Genetics
• Geology/Earth Science
• Immunology
• Medical Microbiology and Bacteriology
• Neurobiology and Neurophysiology
• Pathology/Experimental Pathology
• Pharmacology
• Physics
• Physiology

THERAPY AND COUNSELING (150 awarded)

• Cognitive Science
• Psychology