Yale University | Undergraduate | Top Universities Yale University Undergraduate Yale University was founded in 1701 as the Collegiate School in the home of Abraham Pierson, its first rector, in Killingworth, Connecticut. In 1716 the school moved to New Haven and, with the generous gift by Elihu Yale of nine bales of goods, 417 books, and a portrait and arms of King George I, was renamed Yale College in 1718. Yale embarked on a steady expansion, establishing the Medical Institution (1810), Divinity School (1822), Law School (1843), Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (1847), the School of Fine Arts (1869), and School of Music (1894). In 1887 Yale College became Yale University. It continued to add to its academic offerings with the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (1900), School of Nursing (1923), School of Drama (1925), School of Architecture (1972), and School of Management (1974).

As Yale enters its fourth century, it's goal is to become a truly global universityeducating leaders and advancing the frontiers of knowledge not simply for the United States, but for the entire world. Richard C. Levin, the president of Yale University, says: The globalization of the University is in part an evolutionary development. Yale has drawn students from outside the United States for nearly... Rankings, stats & media Home | Yale School of Medicine Read more about research at Yale . Photo by Robert Lisak About This Image Technology available at Yale labs is extremely specialized and state of the art. Here, two inverted Olympus microscopes coupled to several laser lines, single-photon detectors, and acousto-optical modulators (among other pieces of equipment), perform an experiment involving single-molecule fluorescence. Explore the labs at Yale School of Medicine: Photo by Robert Lisak About This Image The Yale New Haven Gamma Knife is the only radiosurgery unit in Connecticut dedicated to the treatment of head and neck conditions and is the radiosurgery center with by far the most treating experience in Connecticut. Staffed by a team of specialists with cumulatively greater than 30 years of radiosurgery experience, treatment at our center results in predictable and nationally recognized outcomes.

Here, Veronica Chiang, MD , prepares to surgically remove a brain tumor. Read more about Yale Neurosurgery: Photo by Robert Lisak About This Image More than 1,000 Yale physicians provide primary and specialty care for patients through Yale Medical Group . Yale Medical Group delivers advanced care in more than 100 specialties and subspecialties, and has centers of excellence in such fields as cancer, cardiac care, minimally invasive surgery, and organ transplantation. Here, Karen Santucci, MD (right), talks to a young patient about the importance of bicycle helmets. Read the rest of the article: Photo by Robert Lisak About This Image The Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS) is a doctoral program that enables you to take advantage of all of the resources found at a modern research university. Everything Yale has to offer – faculty, facilities, and campuses - is here in one comprehensive, interdisciplinary graduate program. BBS is one opportunity of many at Yale that allow students and faculty to bridge all aspects of the University, including science, law, engineering, divinity, and the arts.

Here, Thomas Steitz, PhD , Nobel Laureate and a participating professor in the Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology track of BBS, displays one of the many ribosomal models in his office. Read more about the BBS Program: Photo by Robert Lisak About This Image The White Coat Ceremony is a joyous occasion! In the presence of their family and friends, the newly enrolled class is introduced to the Yale School of Medicine community in a ceremony that has marked the beginning of medical school for many years. See more pictures from the White Coat Ceremony: Photo by John Curtis About This Image Yale's core research facilities offer a broad range of instrumentation and capabilities not often found in academia, including: One of only 18 PET scanners in the world that can image the human brain at a resolution of 2.5 millimeters 20 major proteomics and mass spectrometry services, including advanced protein identification and profiling technology A microarray resource that has emerged as one of the leaders in the identification of disease-causing genetics Read more about Yale’s CORE Research Facilities: Photo by Robert Lisak About This Image One of the primary goals of the residency programs at Yale is to enable each resident to develop his or her skills to the highest capacity.

This is accomplished by providing in-depth didactic programs, a wide variety of clinical experiences and outstanding teaching and mentorship. Here, Stanley Rosenbaum, MD , works with a team including residents and nurses in Anesthesiology. Read more about Anesthesiology Residency at Yale: Photo by Robert Lisak About This Image There are many benefits to receiving your care at an academic medical center. As faculty at Yale School of Medicine , we are innovators and researchers, constantly seeking out better treatments for our patients. Many of us are national and international leaders in our fields, providing the most advanced diagnostic and therapeutic approaches and using the most advanced technology. Traditions & History | Yale University Traditions & History Traditions & History Yale has grown and evolved for 300-plus years, passing many milestones and forging traditions along the way. The university traces its roots to the 1640s when colonial clergymen led an effort to establish a local college to preserve the tradition of European liberal education in the New World.

In 1701 the charter was granted for a school “wherein Youth may be instructed in the Arts and Sciences (and) through the blessing of Almighty God may be fitted for Publick employment both in Church and Civil State.” The school officially became Yale College in 1718, when it was renamed in honor of Welsh merchant Elihu Yale, who had donated the proceeds from the sale of nine bales of goods together with 417 books and a portrait of King George I. Take a stroll through Yale’s three centuries of history, and learn about the traditions that have become part of the fabric of our university. Landmarks in Yale’s History 1701 2015 1701 Yale is founded in nearby Saybrook, CT as the Collegiate School to educate students for “Publick employment both in Church and Civil State.” In the over 300 years since its founding, Yale has worked to educate those who would become leaders and contributors to every sector of society. 1716 The Collegiate School trustees vote to move to more hospitable New Haven, fulfilling the dream of one of New Haven’s founders, the Reverend John Davenport, to establish a college there.

1718 The Collegiate School is renamed Yale College in recognition of Elihu Yale’s donation of books and goods. 1732 The Reverend George Berkeley establishes the Berkeley Scholarships for graduate study, the first such scholarships in America. Today, Yale College admits all students without regard to their family’s financial circumstances. 1750 Construction is started on Connecticut Hall, now the oldest building in New Haven and a National Historic Landmark. In 1906 a major renovation restored the original gambrel roof. 1757 The first church within a college in America is founded at Yale. During Yale’s first two centuries, Yale graduates influenced the spread of Christianity by serving as missionaries throughout the world. 1767 Construction is completed on the Pierpont House, the oldest surviving house in New Haven. It was used as the Office of Undergraduate Admissions before becoming the Visitor Center in 1995. A thorough restoration was completed in 2002. 1776 Yale graduates become influential leaders in the American Revolution. Twenty-five Yale men served in the Continental Congress, and four Yale graduates signed the Declaration of Independence—Lyman Hall (B.A. 1747), Philip Livingston (B.A.

1737), Lewis Morris (B.A. 1746), and Oliver Wolcott (B.A. 1747). Other leading Yale patriots included Nathan Hale (B.A. 1773), Noah Webster (B.A. 1778), Joel Barlow (B.A. 1778), and Timothy Dwight (B.A. 1769). 1779 British troops invade New Haven, but the student militia rallies to help defend the city. Edmund Fanning, secretary to the British general and Yale graduate (B.A. 1757), persuades the British to leave New Haven without burning the city. 1792 John Trumbull, artist and one-time aide-de-camp to General Washington, develops the Brick Row campus plan, in collaboration with James Hillhouse (B.A. 1773), making Yale the first planned college campus in America. Their plan was well received in New Haven, America’s first planned city. 1802 Considered the father of modern scientific education in America, Benjamin Silliman, Sr. (B.A.

1796, faculty 1799–1853), teaches the first modern science course (chemistry) in the United States. 1813 Yale School of Medicine is founded as the “Medical Institution of Yale College.” The Yale System of Medical Education, which is based on the concept that medical students require guidance and stimulation rather than compulsion or competition, was introduced in 1931 and remains distinctive among medical schools. 1822 Yale Divinity School is founded as the “Theological Department.” Religious studies were central to a Yale education from the beginning. In 1746, the first professorship of divinity was created, and the education of all Yale undergraduates continued to be shaped throughout the nineteenth century by such earlier practices as daily chapel services. 1824 Yale Law School is founded. Consistently ranked as the preeminent law school in the country, it trains outstanding practitioners, jurists, judges, and government officials. The Yale Law School has fostered major movements in American law, including the law and economics movement, the law of outer space, and international human rights. 1832 Yale University Art Gallery opens, the first college art museum in the Western Hemisphere.

Established with John Trumbull’s donation of his paintings, including his original series of Revolutionary War scenes, the collection now encompasses over 185,000 works of art from ancient Egypt to the present day. 1836 Yale Literary Magazine, the oldest literary review in the country, is founded. In the twentieth century, Yale emerged at the forefront of approaches to new ways of studying literature. These include New Criticism, comparative literature, and literary deconstruction. 1843 The first collegiate rowing races are held in New Haven Harbor. Other college sports firsts occurring at Yale include the first intercollegiate game of modern baseball (1865), the development of modern football (see 1880), and the first game of basketball played with five-man teams (1897). 1847 The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is founded as the “Department of Philosophy and the Arts,” offering seminars in chemistry and metallurgy, agricultural science, Greek and Latin literature, mathematics, philology, and Arabic. The Department is also the precursor of the Sheffield Scientific School and the School of Engineering, making it one of the first scientific schools in the U.S.

1854 Yung Wing is the first Chinese man to be awarded a degree (B.A.) from an American university. 1861 Yale becomes the first university in the U.S. to award Doctor of Philosophy degrees. Today, Yale awards Ph.D. degrees to students who have completed work in seventy-four departments and programs. 1866 The Peabody Museum of Natural History is established by the philanthropist George Peabody, uncle of Othniel C. Marsh (B.A. 1860), the nation’s first professor of paleontology. Yale’s earliest museum collection was begun in the eighteenth century and consisted of “natural and artificial curiosities” from around the world. 1869 The first university arts institution, the School of the Fine Arts, opens. Established through the generosity of Augustus Russell Street (B.A. 1812), it was the first Yale school open to women, who formed the majority of students in the School’s first four decades. 1876 Edward A. Bouchet, a New Haven native and graduate of the Yale College Class of 1874, is the first African American to earn a Ph.D. in America.

His degree was the sixth doctorate in physics ever awarded in that field. 1878 Yale Daily News is founded, the oldest college daily newspaper. Many famous journalists developed their passion for journalism as reporters and editors on its staff. 1880 While an undergraduate, Walter Camp (B.A. 1880) develops the modern game of football from the rough game of rugby. Camp, now known as the father of American football, introduced the down, the eleven-man team, and the 100-yard field marked off in a gridiron. 1889 Yale students adopt Handsome Dan, a ferocious and enthusiastic fan at early football games. Handsome Dan inspired Cole Porter to write Yale’s famous fight song, “Bulldog, Bulldog.” 1894 Yale School of Music is established. Today, Yale is one of the most active musical campuses in the world, with more than 400 concerts offered each year by visiting performers as well as University faculty and students. The University sponsors numerous choral and instrumental groups, including two symphony orchestras.

1900 Yale’s Forestry School, now the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, is established, the oldest in the country, and the only such school at an Ivy League institution. Gifford Pinchot (B.A. 1889), often referred to as the “Father of the U.S. Forest Service,” and his parents donated the funds to start the school. 1901 Yale commemorates its Bicentennial with ceremonies on campus and with gifts from alumni that supported the construction of University Commons, Woolsey Hall, and Memorial Hall (the Rotunda). 1909 A group of “gentleman songsters” begin gathering weekly at Mory’s and adopt the name Whiffenpoofs. Today, the Yale campus still rings with the sounds of the Whiffenpoofs as well as more than one dozen other organized a cappella singing groups. 1914 Yale Bowl is completed, the largest amphitheater built since the Roman Colosseum. Capacity of the Bowl was later expanded to hold 80,000 fans before being reduced to its present-day capacity of 64,000.

1915 One of the first academic programs in public health in the country is founded. The Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the School of Medicine has played a pivotal role in addressing central public health issues. The department’s founders started a tradition of community outreach that continues today around the world through the work of faculty, students, and alumni. 1918 End of World War I. The First Yale Unit, formed in 1916, is considered to be the first naval air reserve unit and the first aerial coastal patrol unit. Lt. David Ingalls (B.A. 1920), a member of the First Yale Unit, flying a Sopwith Camel with the Royal Air Force, was the first naval aviator to become an ace. 1920 Yale students invent the Frisbee, tossing pie plates from the Frisbie Pie Company to each other and calling “Frisbie!” to warn passersby. The spelling was changed when Wham-O began mass-producing the saucers. 1921 Upon its completion, Harkness Memorial Tower is the tallest freestanding masonry tower in the United States.

This icon of the University contains a beautiful 54-bell carillon that is played daily by student and professional carillonneurs. 1923 Yale School of Nursing is founded, succeeding the fifty-year-old Connecticut Training School. It was the first nursing school to have autonomy within a university and to be under university standards and influence rather than under hospital control. 1930 Sterling Memorial Library, designed by architect James Gamble Rogers (B.A. 1889), is completed. With many architectural features reminiscent of the great cathedrals of Europe, Sterling Library is well known for its numerous carvings, ironwork, and lead glass windows illustrating the history of books, writing, and Yale. 1932 Payne Whitney Gymnasium, one of the largest indoor athletic facilities in the world, is completed. 1933 First seven residential colleges are opened. The distinctive system for living and learning, based on the English model at Oxford and Cambridge, expanded to twelve residential colleges by 1963. 1935 Yale Institute of International Studies, the only research center of its kind in the world, is established.

Organized within the Graduate School, it supported faculty research in foreign affairs and created the first interdisciplinary Ph.D. program at Yale. Today, the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies is a focal point for encouraging interdisciplinary, international, and area-focused research and teaching. 1943 The Yale campus is transformed into a military training center, and laboratories are used to conduct research in support of the war effort. Captain Glenn Miller and his band’s weekly broadcasts from Woolsey Hall are heard by citizens and troops around the world. 1955 Yale School of Drama is founded, thirty-one years after the establishment of a Department of Drama in the School of the Fine Arts. The School offers M.F.A. and D.F.A. degrees and operates the Tony Award-winning Yale Repertory Theatre. 1963 The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library opens, devoted entirely to Yale’s exceptional collections of rare books and manuscripts. Designed by Gordon Bunshaft, the building is constructed of translucent marble panes framed in granite and enclosing a six-story freestanding book tower. 1969 Yale College admits women for the first time.

Women have attended other schools at Yale since 1869, when the first women enrolled in the School of the Fine Arts. 1972 Yale School of Architecture is founded, fifty-six years after the establishment of a Department of Architecture in the School of the Fine Arts. The School’s faculty and alumni include leading U.S. and international practitioners responsible for some of the most important architecture and urbanism of our time. 1976 Yale School of Management is founded. SOM focuses on preparing men and women who will be leaders in their businesses, NGOs, entrepreneurial ventures, and communities. In addition to the Master of Business Administration degree (M.B.A.), students may pursue a joint degree with any of eight other Yale professional schools. 1977 Yale Center for British Art, which contains the most comprehensive collection of British art outside the United Kingdom, opens its doors. The Center and its ongoing programs were made possible by the generosity of Yale’s great philanthropist Paul Mellon (B.A. 1929). 2007 Yale's West Campus, located on 136 acres 7 miles west of downtown New Haven, is acquired.

The facility includes over 400,000 square feet of research/lab space and includes office and warehouse space, in addition to a full-service child care center and a central utilities plant. 2011 The National University of Singapore (NUS) and Yale University announce that they will establish Yale-NUS College, an autonomous college of NUS. The College provides a new model of liberal arts education for Asia that will prepare high potential students — from Singapore, the rest of Asia and beyond — for leadership and engaged citizenship in today's complex and rapidly changing world. 2014 Construction begins on two new residential colleges, thanks in part to a $250 million gift commitment to the university by Charles B. Johnson, a 1954 graduate of Yale College. The colleges will be the first additions to the residential college system since 1961 and will allow Yale College to admit 200 more students per class. 2015 A $150 million path-breaking gift by Blackstone founder and Yale alumnus, Stephen A. Schwarzman ’69 B.A. will create a world-class, state-of-the-art campus center by renovating the historic Commons and Memorial Hall.

1701 Yale is founded in nearby Saybrook, CT as the Collegiate School to educate students for “Publick employment both in Church and Civil State.” In the over 300 years since its founding, Yale has worked to educate those who would become leaders and contributors to every sector of society. 1716 The Collegiate School trustees vote to move to more hospitable New Haven, fulfilling the dream of one of New Haven’s founders, the Reverend John Davenport, to establish a college there. 1718 The Collegiate School is renamed Yale College in recognition of Elihu Yale’s donation of books and goods. 1732 The Reverend George Berkeley establishes the Berkeley Scholarships for graduate study, the first such scholarships in America. Today, Yale College admits all students without regard to their family’s financial circumstances. 1750 Construction is started on Connecticut Hall, now the oldest building in New Haven and a National Historic Landmark. In 1906 a major renovation restored the original gambrel roof. 1757 The first church within a college in America is founded at Yale. During Yale’s first two centuries, Yale graduates influenced the spread of Christianity by serving as missionaries throughout the world.

1767 Construction is completed on the Pierpont House, the oldest surviving house in New Haven. It was used as the Office of Undergraduate Admissions before becoming the Visitor Center in 1995. A thorough restoration was completed in 2002. 1776 Yale graduates become influential leaders in the American Revolution. Twenty-five Yale men served in the Continental Congress, and four Yale graduates signed the Declaration of Independence—Lyman Hall (B.A. 1747), Philip Livingston (B.A. 1737), Lewis Morris (B.A. 1746), and Oliver Wolcott (B.A. 1747). Other leading Yale patriots included Nathan Hale (B.A. 1773), Noah Webster (B.A. 1778), Joel Barlow (B.A. 1778), and Timothy Dwight (B.A. 1769). 1779 British troops invade New Haven, but the student militia rallies to help defend the city. Edmund Fanning, secretary to the British general and Yale graduate (B.A. 1757), persuades the British to leave New Haven without burning the city.

1792 John Trumbull, artist and one-time aide-de-camp to General Washington, develops the Brick Row campus plan, in collaboration with James Hillhouse (B.A. 1773), making Yale the first planned college campus in America. Their plan was well received in New Haven, America’s first planned city. 1802 Considered the father of modern scientific education in America, Benjamin Silliman, Sr. (B.A. 1796, faculty 1799–1853), teaches the first modern science course (chemistry) in the United States. 1813 Yale School of Medicine is founded as the “Medical Institution of Yale College.” The Yale System of Medical Education, which is based on the concept that medical students require guidance and stimulation rather than compulsion or competition, was introduced in 1931 and remains distinctive among medical schools. 1822 Yale Divinity School is founded as the “Theological Department.” Religious studies were central to a Yale education from the beginning. In 1746, the first professorship of divinity was created, and the education of all Yale undergraduates continued to be shaped throughout the nineteenth century by such earlier practices as daily chapel services.

1824 Yale Law School is founded. Consistently ranked as the preeminent law school in the country, it trains outstanding practitioners, jurists, judges, and government officials. The Yale Law School has fostered major movements in American law, including the law and economics movement, the law of outer space, and international human rights. 1832 Yale University Art Gallery opens, the first college art museum in the Western Hemisphere. Established with John Trumbull’s donation of his paintings, including his original series of Revolutionary War scenes, the collection now encompasses over 185,000 works of art from ancient Egypt to the present day. 1836 Yale Literary Magazine, the oldest literary review in the country, is founded. In the twentieth century, Yale emerged at the forefront of approaches to new ways of studying literature. These include New Criticism, comparative literature, and literary deconstruction. 1843 The first collegiate rowing races are held in New Haven Harbor.

Other college sports firsts occurring at Yale include the first intercollegiate game of modern baseball (1865), the development of modern football (see 1880), and the first game of basketball played with five-man teams (1897). 1847 The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is founded as the “Department of Philosophy and the Arts,” offering seminars in chemistry and metallurgy, agricultural science, Greek and Latin literature, mathematics, philology, and Arabic. The Department is also the precursor of the Sheffield Scientific School and the School of Engineering, making it one of the first scientific schools in the U.S. 1854 Yung Wing is the first Chinese man to be awarded a degree (B.A.) from an American university. 1861 Yale becomes the first university in the U.S. to award Doctor of Philosophy degrees. Today, Yale awards Ph.D. degrees to students who have completed work in seventy-four departments and programs. 1866 The Peabody Museum of Natural History is established by the philanthropist George Peabody, uncle of Othniel C. Marsh (B.A. 1860), the nation’s first professor of paleontology.

Yale’s earliest museum collection was begun in the eighteenth century and consisted of “natural and artificial curiosities” from around the world. 1869 The first university arts institution, the School of the Fine Arts, opens. Established through the generosity of Augustus Russell Street (B.A. 1812), it was the first Yale school open to women, who formed the majority of students in the School’s first four decades. 1876 Edward A. Bouchet, a New Haven native and graduate of the Yale College Class of 1874, is the first African American to earn a Ph.D. in America. His degree was the sixth doctorate in physics ever awarded in that field. 1878 Yale Daily News is founded, the oldest college daily newspaper. Many famous journalists developed their passion for journalism as reporters and editors on its staff. 1880 While an undergraduate, Walter Camp (B.A. 1880) develops the modern game of football from the rough game of rugby. Camp, now known as the father of American football, introduced the down, the eleven-man team, and the 100-yard field marked off in a gridiron.

1889 Yale students adopt Handsome Dan, a ferocious and enthusiastic fan at early football games. Handsome Dan inspired Cole Porter to write Yale’s famous fight song, “Bulldog, Bulldog.” 1894 Yale School of Music is established. Today, Yale is one of the most active musical campuses in the world, with more than 400 concerts offered each year by visiting performers as well as University faculty and students. The University sponsors numerous choral and instrumental groups, including two symphony orchestras. 1900 Yale’s Forestry School, now the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, is established, the oldest in the country, and the only such school at an Ivy League institution. Gifford Pinchot (B.A. 1889), often referred to as the “Father of the U.S. Forest Service,” and his parents donated the funds to start the school. 1901 Yale commemorates its Bicentennial with ceremonies on campus and with gifts from alumni that supported the construction of University Commons, Woolsey Hall, and Memorial Hall (the Rotunda).

1909 A group of “gentleman songsters” begin gathering weekly at Mory’s and adopt the name Whiffenpoofs. Today, the Yale campus still rings with the sounds of the Whiffenpoofs as well as more than one dozen other organized a cappella singing groups. 1914 Yale Bowl is completed, the largest amphitheater built since the Roman Colosseum. Capacity of the Bowl was later expanded to hold 80,000 fans before being reduced to its present-day capacity of 64,000. 1915 One of the first academic programs in public health in the country is founded. The Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the School of Medicine has played a pivotal role in addressing central public health issues. The department’s founders started a tradition of community outreach that continues today around the world through the work of faculty, students, and alumni. 1918 End of World War I. The First Yale Unit, formed in 1916, is considered to be the first naval air reserve unit and the first aerial coastal patrol unit. Lt. David Ingalls (B.A.

1920), a member of the First Yale Unit, flying a Sopwith Camel with the Royal Air Force, was the first naval aviator to become an ace. 1920 Yale students invent the Frisbee, tossing pie plates from the Frisbie Pie Company to each other and calling “Frisbie!” to warn passersby. The spelling was changed when Wham-O began mass-producing the saucers. 1921 Upon its completion, Harkness Memorial Tower is the tallest freestanding masonry tower in the United States. This icon of the University contains a beautiful 54-bell carillon that is played daily by student and professional carillonneurs. 1923 Yale School of Nursing is founded, succeeding the fifty-year-old Connecticut Training School. It was the first nursing school to have autonomy within a university and to be under university standards and influence rather than under hospital control. 1930 Sterling Memorial Library, designed by architect James Gamble Rogers (B.A. 1889), is completed.

With many architectural features reminiscent of the great cathedrals of Europe, Sterling Library is well known for its numerous carvings, ironwork, and lead glass windows illustrating the history of books, writing, and Yale. 1932 About Yale | Yale and the World Yale and the World About Yale Yale: A Global ​University Founded in 1701, Yale University consists of three major components: Yale College, the four-year undergraduate school; the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; and thirteen professional schools. Yale College, the heart of the University, provides instruction in the liberal arts and sciences, and offers a curriculum of remarkable breadth and depth. While Yale is located in historic New Haven, Connecticut, a port city about 120 kilometers northeast of New York City, the University’s engagement goes beyond the United States dating from the earliest years of the nineteenth century, when faculty members first pursued study and research abroad. Today, Yale has become a truly global university – educating leaders and advancing the frontiers of knowledge not simply for the United States, but for the entire world. View the timeline of Yale’s history .

The Yale Office of International Affairs The Yale Office of International Affairs (OIA) is a university-wide resource that serves as the global liaison for all students, faculty, staff, and organizations involved in international activities and initiatives. Combining regional expertise with administrative capabilities, OIA fosters connections within the Yale community and abroad, while further strengthening Yale’s position as a leading global university that is inspiring the minds that inspire the world. International Framework Yale’s International Agenda organizes the ambitions and interests of Yale’s deans and faculty around three overarching goals: To prepare students for leadership and service in an increasingly interdependent world. To attract the most talented students and scholars to Yale from around the world. To position Yale as a global university of consequence, through the increasing scope of research collaborations, teaching programs, international projects, and public engagement. From 2005 to 2008, the schools and other units of Yale instituted the strategies in the first Internationalization of Yale: The Emerging Framework, achieving the results described in the Progress Report on Internationalization of Yale: 2005-08.

International Statistics Number of international students: Yale University - 2,477 (20% of total student body) Yale College - 598 (10% of undergraduate student body) Number of Countries and Territories Students Represent: 117 Top 10 countries where students come from: China, Canada, India, South Korea, United Kingdom, Germany, Singapore, Mexico, Brazil, Italy Number of International Scholars: 2,457 Top 10 countries where scholars come from: China, India, Germany, South Korea, Italy, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Japan, Spain See more facts related to Yale University. International Historical Facts Considered the father of modern scientific education in America, in 1805 Benjamin Silliman B.A. 1796, M.A. 1799 was the first science professor in the United States to be sent abroad on a scientific mission. Yale became the first academic institution in the Western hemisphere where Sanskrit could be studied when in 1841 Salisbury was appointed Professor of Arabic and Sanskrit Language and Literature. In 1854, he endowed a permanent chair in Sanskrit.

Yung Wing was the first person from China to earn a degree from an American university. In the 1870s, he founded the Chinese Education Mission, an organization that brought Chinese students to the United States, many of whom went on to play major roles in the modernization of China. Yale has a history of cultivating Chinese educators, with the following notable examples: Tang Guo’an, Zhang Yuquan, Zhou Yichun, and Cao Yunxiang, four of the first six presidents of former president Hu Jintao’s alma mater, Tsinghua University, studied at Yale; Li Denghui (Class of 1899) served as the first president of Fudan University; and Yan Yangchu (Class of 1918) founded the Mass Education Movement to promote literacy among the Chinese population. Kan’ichi Asakawa earned his doctorate degree from Yale in 1902, and in 1907 was hired as an instructor in Japanese history and appointed as curator of the East Asia Library at Yale. When he was promoted to full professor he became the first Japanese professor at a major U.S. university.

Asakawa’s career at Yale spanned nearly half a century, and he is remembered as a pioneer in Japanese Studies having also built the foundation for Japanese research collections at Yale and at the Library of Congress. In 1911, Bingham organized and directed the Yale Peruvian Expedition, which rediscovered the lost mountaintop ruins of the Inca settlement of Machu Picchu. Bingham taught South American and Latin American history at Yale from 1907 to 1924. Albert Ernst Rudolph Goetze, who taught at Yale from 1936 to 1965, discovered tablets of the earliest Babylonian law code, thereby ushering in a new phase in the study of ancient legal codes. Explore an illustrated timeline of Yale’s history >> Bringing the World to Yale Yale is extensively involved in international studies, offering over fifty foreign languages and more than 600 courses related to international affairs. On campus, the academic study of and engagement with the international world is also facilitated through the numerous centers that make international affairs pervasive throughout the University’s curriculum.

For example: The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale is the University’s focal point for encouraging and coordinating teaching and research on global affairs, regions, and cultures around the world. The Center offers a number of master’s and undergraduate degree programs, supports extensive research activity, and houses councils for region and area studies that offer hundreds of lectures, conferences, workshops, and events each year. The Jackson Institute is the home for Yale’s master’s degree in Global Affairs and new undergraduate Global Affairs major as well as courses open to all students and taught by Yale faculty and distinguished practitioners. The Center for Language Study, the Center for the Study of Globalization, and the International Center for Finance augment the growing set of international programs and activities in Yale’s professional schools. Explore Yale’s full list of International Centers and Initiatives . Yale in the World On-campus engagement is coupled by international experiences available to all students. In 2012 the Institute of International Education noted that more Yale undergraduates have an international experience than those at any other Ivy or AAU institution.

Yale College’s Center for International & Professional Experience (CIPE) assists students so that all undergraduates have the opportunity to study, work, or conduct independent research abroad; more than 1,300 go abroad each year. The Yale School of Management was one of the first major business schools to require all first-year students to travel abroad on faculty-led trips. The Yale School of Architecture incorporates an overseas trip into the curriculum as part of every student’s final-year studio course. The Yale Medical School, School of Nursing, and School of Public Health have programs that bring students around the world for clinical work and research. The University supports and facilitates faculty research and collaborations with colleagues and institutions around the world, creating opportunities for multi-disciplinary, transatlantic research, and education. For example, There are several joint labs and centers in China that focus on law, genetics and agrobiology research. In Latin America, there are the Peru-Yale Center for the Study of Machu Picchu and the Inca Culture in Cusco, in addition to the Yale-Universidad de Chile International Program in Astronomy Education and Research, which gives Yale faculty and students access to one of the world’s most important observatories.

The Global Network for Advanced Management that the Yale School of Management launched with over 20 other partner schools around the world fosters substantive ties and exchanges amongst these leading global business schools. Collaborations also exist with Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico, University College London in the United Kingdom, University of Tokyo in Japan, National University of Singapore (NUS) in Singapore, the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) in Brazil, as well as Pantheon-Assas University (Paris II) and École Normale Supérieure (ENS) in France.

Question: Yale University is in which state of the USA?
Answer: Connecticut