Welcome to Yale University

Welcome to Yale University

Prepared by Inna Kindras. Ukrainian philology.

Yale University is a 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. The University is 312 years old.

Motto: Lux et veritas (light and truth).

Originally chartered as the "Collegiate School", the institution traces its roots to 17th-century to 1640s, when clergymen led an effort to establish a college in New Haven to preserve the tradition of European liberal education in the New World. In 1718, the College was renamed "Yale College" to honor a gift from Elihu Yale, a governor of the British East India Company. International students have made their way to Yale since the 1830s, when the first Latin American student enrolled.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 University comprises three major academic components: Yale College (the undergraduate program), the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and theprofessional schools. In addition, Yale encompasses a wide array of centers and programs, libraries, museums, and administrative support offices. Approximately 11,250 students attend Yale.

To be accepted to study at Yale, interested applicants must apply directly to the school, college, or program where the degree will be awarded: Yale College for undergraduate degrees; the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences for doctoral programs and some master’s degrees; or one of the professional schools.

Professional schools of Yale: School of Architecture, School of Art, Divinity School, School of Drama, School of Engineering & Applied Science, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Law School, School of Management, School of Medicine, School of Music, School of Nursing, School of Public Health, Institute of Sacred Music. Other programs: Non-degree programs, Summer session, World Fellows Program.

In 2006, Yale and Peking University (PKU) established a Joint Undergraduate Program in Beijing, an exchange program allowing Yale students to spend a semester living and studying with PKU honor students.

Yale-educated Presidents since the end of the Vietnam War include Gerald Ford, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush, and others. The President and Fellows of Yale College, also known as the Yale Corporation, is the governing board of the University. Yale's president Richard C. Levin is one of the highest paid university presidents in the United States with a 2008 salary of $1.5 million.

The U.S. News & World Report ranked Yale third among national universities in 2012 in every case behind Princeton and Harvard.

There is an office of International students&scholars, where you can have pre-orientation program sponsored for new Yale College students. It is a four-day program designed to introduce new international students to Yale and to the city of New Haven. Also, you can take part in a program USA/USA (Association for Ukrainian students in the United States of America), where you will be able to get scholarship for studying in Yale.

Nickname: Bulldogs, Yalies. Mascot: Handsome Dan.

To contact our office at [e-mail].

If you have question about coming to Yale contact us [e-mail].

Yale University

Yale Law school – central campus in downtown

Connecticut Hall, oldest building on the Yale campus, built between 1750 and 1753.

Yale is noted for its largely Collegiate Gothic campus.

Yale library.

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