Yale University

Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. It was founded in 1701 as the Collegiate School, moved to New Haven in 1716 and took the name of benefactor Elihu Yale in 1718. It is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States. Yale College undergraduates live in a residential college system of fourteen colleges.

Beyond Yale College, the university has fourteen graduate and professional schools. They include the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Law School, the School of Medicine, the School of Management, the School of Public Health, the Jackson School of Global Affairs, the School of the Environment, the Divinity School, the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the School of Nursing. Its arts schools are Architecture, Art, Music and the David Geffen School of Drama. Research resources include the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the Peabody Museum of Natural History and Yale New Haven Hospital.

Yale enrolls about 15,000 students, and more than half are graduate and professional students. International students make up about a fifth of enrollment and come from more than 120 countries. More than 60 Nobel laureates have been affiliated with the university. Its alumni include George H.W. Bush, Hillary Clinton and Meryl Streep.

Yale is known for the JD and for PhDs in the humanities, social sciences and biomedical sciences. It also awards professional master's degrees in the environment, management, public health and the arts. PhD students typically receive full funding for five or more years. Yale runs on semesters. New Haven is a small coastal city, and most graduate students live within walking distance of campus.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, Yale University lists 182 graduate programs across 46 subjects: 73 master's programs and 92 doctoral programs, with the widest choice in public health, biology and area studies. Yale University holds rank 8 in the GSN Overall University Ranking.