Yale University is an American private Ivy League research
university located in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 in the
Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of
higher education in the United States. Incorporated as the Collegiate
School, the institution traces its roots to 17th-century clergymen who
sought to establish a college to train clergy and political leaders for
the colony. In 1718, the College was renamed Yale College to honor a
gift from Elihu Yale, a governor of the British East India Company. In
1861, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences became the first U.S.
school to award the PhD[7] Yale became a founding member of the
Association of American Universities in 1900. Yale College was
transformed, beginning in the 1930s, through the establishment of
residential colleges: 12 now exist and two more are planned. Yale
employs over 1,100 faculty to teach and advise about 5,300 undergraduate
and 6,100 graduate and professional students. Almost all tenured
professors teach undergraduate courses, more than 2,000 of which are
offered annually. (form Wikipedia). |
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