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 college apprenticeship in the United States. The academy was renamed Yale College 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 constituent schools: the original undergraduate college, the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and twelve professional schools. While the university is governed by the Yale Corporation, each school's faculty oversees its curriculum and degree programs. In addition to a central campus in downtown New Haven, the University owns athletic facilities in western New Haven, including the Yale Bowl, a campus in West Haven, Connecticut, and forest and nature preserves throughout New England. The university's assets include an endowment valued at $25.6 billion as of September 2015, the second largest of any educational institution in the world.

Yale Institute understudies seek after an impelled expressions class with true blue majors and are sorted out into a strategy of private colleges. All aptitude admonish school classes, included than 2,000 of which are offered each year. The Yale College Library, bound each one of the twelve schools, holds included than 15 performing craftsman volumes and is the third-greatest educated library in the United States. Outside of insightful studies, affirmation try intercollegiately as the Yale Bulldogs in the NCAA Division I Ivy Group.

Yale has graduated many notable alumni, including five U.S. Presidents, 19 U.S. Supreme Court Justices, 13 living billionaires,and many foreign heads of state. In addition, Yale has graduated hundreds of members of Congress and many high-level U.S. diplomats, including former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and current Secretary of State John Kerry. 52 Nobel laureates, 230Rhodes Scholars, and 118 Marshall Scholars have been affiliated with the University.