Yale
University
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ABOUT
Yale
University is a private research university and a member of the prestigious Ivy
League, a group of America’s most celebrated higher education institutions. Situated
in New Haven, Connecticut, the first planned city in America, Yale was founded
by English Puritans in 1701, making it the third-oldest higher education
institution in the United States.
Today,
the city, which is part of the New York metropolitan area, is very much
dominated by Yale, though it’s also billed as the “Cultural Capital of
Connecticut”. According to the New York Times, New Haven is also extremely
picturesque, with “art almost everywhere you look”.
Yale
University’s central campus spans 260 acres and includes buildings from the
mid-18th century. The university is organized into 14 schools: the original
undergraduate college, the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and 12 professional
schools.
Undergraduates
follow a liberal arts curriculum which allows you to think and learn across
disciplines before deciding upon a major. Perhaps its most distinctive feature,
Yale undergraduates are organized into a social system of residential colleges,
which allows them to experience the cohesiveness and intimacy of a small school
while still enjoying the cultural and scholarly resources of a large
university.
A
recently unveiled portrait of Barack Obama was by a Yale alumnus, and strolling
across the Yale campus, you’ll find that you’re surrounded by public art. Be it
in courtyards or plazas, lobbies or lecture halls, art at Yale inspires
reflection and offers aesthetic pleasure.
College
life is similarly rich, reflecting the diversity of cultures and nationalities
on campus. There’s always a packed arts calendar which includes exhibitions at
world-class museums and galleries. There’s also a Tony Award-winning theater,
Yale Cabaret – a theater-restaurant run by students – and hundreds of student
groups, ranging from the serious to the silly.
On top
of this, you’ll also find the usual array of top quality sports facilities, a
golf course and centers for tennis, polo, sailing, ice hockey, and more as well
as competitive sports, with over 30 men’s and women’s varsity teams.
To
study at Yale is to join great company: four Yale graduates signed the American
Declaration of Independence, and the university has educated five US
presidents: William Howard Taft, Gerald Ford, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton
and George W. Bush. It is rightly regarded as one of America and the world’s
most prestigious universities, with competition to be admitted as fierce as it
gets.
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