Yale University

Founded in 1701, Yale is a university with honored traditions. In the diversity of its students, its global outlook, and its outstanding research, it is also a university of compelling change. Today Yale is one of the world’s great research universities, with a total student population of more than 11,000—in Yale College and thirteen graduate and professional schools—and a faculty numbering more than 2,400. For all its size and scope, Yale holds firmly to its traditional emphasis on undergraduate teaching. Yale is perhaps best known for the strength of its college, where its undergraduate students learn to lead and serve through a strong academic curriculum and by participation in a host of extracurricular activities, from athletics to community service. Yale College alone educates 5,300 young men and women each year from all 50 states in the U.S. and from more than 80 other countries.