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Yale university (Yale University) - one of the most famous universities in the USA, located in New Haven, Connecticut.
Yale is one of the most elite American universities, the so-called. Ivy League.
Yale University is located in New Haven, one of the oldest cities in New England, in the state of Connecticut. New Haven is a port city with a population of 125 thousand people, located 120 kilometers northeast of New York and 200 kilometers southwest of Boston. Yale was founded in 1701; it includes twelve divisions: Yale College, a four-year education which culminates in a bachelor's degree; graduate school in various specialties, including the exact sciences, natural sciences and humanities, as well as 10 professional faculties training specialists in the fields of law, medicine, business, environmental protection, as well as theologians, architects, musicians, artists and actors. The Yale College program, the foundation of the university, is distinguished by its breadth and depth. More than 2,000 courses are offered annually by 65 departments and programs. In accordance with a long-standing tradition, the university's faculty pays exceptional attention to student learning. Many initial and introductory courses are taught by distinguished scientists and university professors.
History of Yale University
The origins of Yale's history go back to 1640, with the efforts of colonial priests to establish a college in New Haven. The ideas that formed the basis for the formation of the university go back to the traditions and principles of education in medieval European universities, as well as the ancient academies of Greece and Rome, where the principle of liberal education (from the Latin liber - free citizen) was first developed. Such education was aimed at intensive development of the student's general intellectual competence, virtue and character. During the Roman Empire, this principle was put into practice through training in seven areas of the so-called. "liberal arts": grammar, rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, astronomy, geometry and music.
The founders of Yale University (Puritan priests) were also guided by the principle of the so-called. collegiality, which subsequently played an important role in the development of higher education in the United States. While colleges in much of Europe and Scotland did not provide on-site housing for students, Yale's founders wanted to create a college dormitory where students could learn from each other while living together on campus. Such ideas reflected the English ideals of the time, embodied by the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge, where students studied, lived and attended church in the company of their tutors. Under such a system, education became not just a training of the mind and preparation for a particular profession, but also an experience aimed at developing various aspects of the student's character, including moral virtue.
While similar ideals were used by Harvard's founders, many of the faculty and professors soon began to doubt the university's success. In the words of the Reverend Solomon Stoddard, speaking during one of the college's Sunday services in 1703, Harvard had become a place of "Enmity and Pride... and Waste... It is not worth going to college to learn how to compliment men and woo women." In 1700, ten ministers met in Branford, Connecticut, to discuss the creation of a new college that would avoid the mistakes made by Harvard. Most of them were Harvard College graduates who were disillusioned with their Harvard education. In 1701, having received a charter from the Colonial General Assembly (issued for the purpose of training generations of "exemplary men"), they formally began work on the creation of the Collegiate School, as Yale University was then called.
Studying at Yale during Colonial America
University building built in 1718.
In 1717, the founders of Yale University purchased land in the small town of New Haven, then home to about 1,000 people. The first building they erected in New Haven was named Yale College. In 1718, the university was renamed in honor of the Welsh merchant Eliahu Yale, who donated the proceeds from the sale of nine bales of goods, 417 books and a portrait of King George I. The Collegiate Church and Connecticut Hall were soon erected, which today can be seen on the campus as one of the oldest buildings at Yale.
By that time, each college class consisted of about 25-30 people; In total, about 100 students studied at the college. Only young men were allowed to study; The average age for entering college was 15-16 years old. The criterion for selecting students into the college was oral examinations, which were taken by the president of Yale College himself. The exams tested knowledge of Latin and Greek, various classical sciences such as logic, rhetoric and arithmetic. Moreover, Latin was the official language of the college, which not only meant instruction in Latin, but also a strict communication regime in which Latin was the only language students were allowed to use in conversations outside the classroom and after classes. The use of English was prohibited by college rules.
The Latin requirement remained in effect for most of Yale's history. In the 1920s, university faculty proposed abandoning it, but the twenty-seventh President of the United States, William Howard Taft, a Yale graduate and member of the Yale Corporation, did not allow Yale to abandon its centuries-old traditions. The teachers achieved changes only in 1931.
Every Yale student was required to complete a prescribed program of study along with the rest of the student body. To this requirement was added the rule of attending daily prayers and readings from the Holy Scriptures. In addition to lectures, students were required to take part in the so-called. public readings, debates and recitations. Public reading meant a verbatim retelling of material learned by heart; during the debate, the student had to show his knowledge of the material by accepting one side or another of the proposition (judgment, theorem), and defending it in accordance with the prescribed rules of logic; the recitation was the student's own lecture, embellished with tropes and formal rhetoric. Particular attention was paid to oral forms of learning, with an emphasis on eloquence and oratory.
The compulsory use of Latin at Yale College emphasized one of the fundamental missions of the university - the continuation of the intellectual traditions of Europe and antiquity. The disciplines studied by students at Yale and Harvard reflected the curriculum of Cambridge and Oxford, as well as the ancient academies: the seven “liberal arts”, classical literature, etc. "three philosophies" - natural philosophy, ethics and metaphysics. The Puritans saw such a program as a necessary foundation for the Christian ideals they hoped to establish in America through education. The college and church buildings, for example, at Yale University were adjacent to each other and were compatible. At the same time, the intellectual culture of Europe on which the Yale education was based was quite fluid, and soon pitted Puritan ideals against new ideas.
University growth
Yale was unaffected by the American Revolutionary War of 1776–1781, and the university grew significantly during its first hundred years. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, graduate and professional schools were founded - institutes that turned Yale into a true university. In 1810, the Faculty of Medicine was officially established at Yale, followed by the Faculty of Theology in 1822, and the Faculty of Law in 1824. In 1847, postgraduate studies began in the fields of exact, natural and human sciences. In 1861, the Yale Graduate School awarded the doctorate degree for the first time in the United States. In 1869, the Faculty of Art History was founded at Yale, in 1894 - the Faculty of Music, in 1900 - the Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Protection, in 1923 - the Faculty of Nursing, in 1955 - the Theater Faculty, in 1972 - Architectural, and in 1974 - Faculty of Management. Since 1869, graduate students at Yale University have enrolled women. In 1969, Yale began admitting female students to its four-year bachelor's degree program.
College dormitories
In the early years, on the model of medieval English universities such as Oxford and Cambridge, all Yale College students were divided into twelve dormitory colleges, each with about 450 members. This system made it possible to combine the advantages of the informal atmosphere of small colleges with the broad capabilities of a large research university. Each college dormitory consists of several buildings that form a cozy rectangular courtyard with shady trees, a lawn and comfortable benches. This college dormitory, with a dining hall, library, study rooms and meeting hall, occupies an entire city block and creates a unique atmosphere of student life. Here students live, eat, communicate, and engage in academic and extracurricular activities. Each college is headed by a master who lives with the students. Each college also has its own dean and several resident representatives from the university-wide faculty who are actively involved in the lives of students.
There are twelve colleges in total:
- Berkeley
- Branford
- Calhoun
- Davenport
- Timothy Dwight
- Jonathan Edwards
- Morse
- Pierson
- Saybrook
- Silliman
- Ezra Stiles
- Trumbull.
At Yale University
Yale today
Currently, Yale is one of the best universities in the world. It has 11 thousand students from 50 states of America and from more than 110 different countries. The teaching staff of two thousand is distinguished by the highest qualifications in their fields of knowledge. The main campus of the university occupies 170 acres (69 hectares) of land, stretching from the nursing faculty in the heart of New Haven to the shady residential neighborhoods surrounding the theology department. Among Yale's 225 buildings, there are many built by famous architects of their time. The architectural styles represented are varied, from New England Colonial to Victorian Gothic, from Moorish to ultra-modern. Yale's buildings, towers, lawns, courtyards, arches and gates create what one architect called "the most beautiful campus in America." The university also owns more than 600 acres (243 hectares) of land, which contains a variety of sports facilities and wooded areas - all a short bus ride from the city center. Beginning in the 1930s, Yale invested heavily in the development of university facilities: a new art history complex was opened, scientific laboratory buildings, a sports center and student dormitory were erected. In recent years, restoration work has been carried out on historical buildings and college dormitories. Further investment in the development and improvement of the university is planned over the next decade, affecting both students and academic staff.
Library
The Yale University Library deserves special mention. Its general and specialized funds contain 11 million units; The library owns unique collections, archives, music recordings, maps and other rare exhibits. It is the third largest library in the United States and the second largest university library in the world. A single computerized catalog brings together more than 40 specialized libraries located in different parts of the campus: from the extraordinary beauty of the Gothic Sterling Library, which houses about half of Yale’s book wealth, to the modern building of the Beinecke collection of rare books and manuscripts, with more than 800,000 unique books. and documents.
Galleries and museums
The cultural and scientific life of the university is unthinkable without its diverse collections. The Yale Art Gallery, founded in 1832 (the current building was built in 1953 by Louis Kahn), is one of America's major public museums. Its two buildings contain collections of ancient and medieval art, Renaissance and Oriental art, and finds from university archaeological expeditions. The exhibition widely includes pre-Colombian and African art, masterpieces of European and American painting from different periods, as well as a rich collection of contemporary art. Directly across the street is the Yale UK Art Center, opened in 1977. It houses the world's largest collection of British art and illustrated books outside the UK. Founded in 1866, the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History houses one of the finest collections of scientific exhibits in North America. These include extensive ornithological and mineral collections, America's second-largest repository of dinosaur remains, and the world's largest complete preserved brontosaurus. Peabody is not just a museum, but an active research and cultural center that combines all areas of activity: exhibition, educational, security, research and teaching. The Yale Art Gallery, the UK Art Center and the Peabody Museum house only a portion of the university's collections. All of Yale's art, from Picasso's masterpieces and the remains of an ancient pterodactyl to the Museum's 1689 viola, is available to visitors. However, the greatest wealth of the university is those who work and study there: students inspired by example, carried away by the talent and teaching skills of their professors and teachers, who, in turn, constantly draw new ideas from communicating with students.
Exact, natural and applied sciences
Because Yale is widely known for its achievements in the humanities, many do not realize that the university is also one of the leading research centers in the United States. Yale's departments of biology, chemistry, molecular biophysics and biochemistry, physics, astronomy, mathematics, computer science, geology and geophysics, environmental science, and others are consistently ranked among the very best university programs in America. Optimal conditions have been created here for training students in fields such as biomedicine, applied chemistry, electrical and other engineering sciences, first-class laboratories are equipped with the latest technology.
Building on its strengths, Yale is investing more than $500 million to expand and improve the science and engineering departments' laboratories and teaching facilities. Over the next decade, the university will make an additional investment of more than $500 million to develop its facilities for research in medicine and biotechnology.
Development of international relations at Yale
Yale University's tradition of international relations dates back to the early nineteenth century, when professors and faculty began undertaking scientific and educational trips abroad. Yale was one of the first universities to welcome international students: the first student from
Yale university(English: Yale University) is a private research university in the United States, the third of nine colonial colleges founded before the Revolutionary War. It is part of the Ivy League, a community of eight most prestigious private American universities. Together with Harvard and Princeton universities, it makes up the so-called “Big Three”.
Yale University is located in New Haven, one of the oldest cities in New England, in the state of Connecticut. New Haven is a port city with a population of 125 thousand people, located 120 kilometers northeast of New York and 200 kilometers southwest of Boston.
More than 2,000 courses are offered annually by 65 departments. Many initial and introductory courses are taught by distinguished scientists and university professors.
History of Yale University
View of the façade of Yale University and the Chapel, Daniel Bowen, 1786
The origins of Yale's history go back to 1640, with the efforts of colonial priests to establish a college in New Haven. The ideas that formed the basis for the formation of the university go back to the traditions and principles of education in medieval European universities, as well as the ancient academies of Greece and Rome, where the principle of liberal education (from the Latin liber - free citizen) was first developed. Such education was aimed at intensive development of the student's general intellectual competence, virtue and character. During the Roman Empire, this principle was put into practice through training in seven areas of the so-called. "liberal arts": grammar, rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, astronomy, geometry and music.
Yale University's first diploma, awarded to Nathaniel Chauncey, 1702
The founders of Yale University (Puritan priests) were also guided by the principle of the so-called. collegiality, which subsequently played an important role in the development of higher education in the United States. While colleges in much of Europe and Scotland did not provide on-site housing for students, Yale's founders wanted to create a college dormitory where students could learn from each other while living together on campus. Such ideas reflected the English ideals of the time, embodied by the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge, where students studied, lived and attended church in the company of their tutors. Under such a system, education became not just a training of the mind and preparation for a particular profession, but also an experience aimed at developing various aspects of the student's character, including moral virtue. While similar ideals were used by Harvard's founders, many of the faculty and professors soon began to doubt the university's success. According to the Rev. Solomon Stoddard, who spoke during one of the college's Sunday services in 1703, Harvard became the place " Hostility and Pride... and Waste... You shouldn't go to college to learn how to compliment men and court women" In 1700, ten ministers met in Branford, Connecticut, to discuss the creation of a new college that would avoid the mistakes made by Harvard. Most of them were Harvard College graduates who were disillusioned with their Harvard education. In 1701, having received a charter from the Colonial General Assembly (issued for the purpose of training generations of "exemplary men"), they officially began work on the creation of the Collegiate School, as Yale University was then called.
Studying at Yale during Colonial America
University building built in 1718.
In 1717, the founders of Yale University purchased land in the small town of New Haven, then home to about 1,000 people. The first building they erected in New Haven was named Yale College. In 1718, the university was renamed in honor of the British merchant Elihu Yale, who donated the proceeds (about £800) from the sale of nine bales of goods, 417 books and a portrait of King George I. The Collegiate Church and Connecticut Hall were soon erected, which can be seen today on the university grounds as one of the oldest buildings at Yale.
By that time, each college class consisted of about 25-30 people; In total, about 100 students studied at the college. Only young men were allowed to study; The average age for entering college was 15-16 years old. The criterion for selecting students into the college was oral examinations, which were taken by the president of Yale College himself. The exams tested knowledge of Latin, Hebrew and Greek, and various classical sciences such as logic, rhetoric and arithmetic. Moreover, Latin was the official language of the college, which not only meant instruction in Latin, but also a strict communication regime in which Latin was the only language students were allowed to use in conversations outside the classroom and after classes. The use of English was prohibited by college rules.
The Latin requirement remained in effect for most of Yale's history. In the 1920s, university faculty proposed abandoning it, but the twenty-seventh President of the United States, William Howard Taft, a Yale graduate and member of the Yale Corporation, did not allow Yale to abandon its centuries-old traditions. The teachers achieved changes only in 1931.
Every Yale student was required to complete a prescribed program of study along with the rest of the student body. To this requirement was added the rule of attending daily prayers and readings from the Holy Scriptures. In addition to lectures, students were required to take part in the so-called. public readings, debates and recitations. Public reading meant a verbatim retelling of material learned by heart; during the debate, the student had to show his knowledge of the material by accepting one side or another of the proposition (judgment, theorem), and defending it in accordance with the prescribed rules of logic; the recitation was the student's own lecture, embellished with tropes and formal rhetoric. Particular attention was paid to oral forms of learning, with an emphasis on eloquence and oratory.
The compulsory use of Latin at Yale College emphasized one of the fundamental missions of the university - the continuation of the intellectual traditions of Europe and antiquity. The disciplines studied by students at Yale and Harvard reflected the curriculum of Cambridge and Oxford, as well as the ancient academies: the seven “liberal arts”, classical literature, etc. "three philosophies" - natural philosophy, ethics and metaphysics. The Puritans saw such a program as a necessary foundation for the Christian ideals they hoped to establish in America through education. The college and church buildings, for example, at Yale University were adjacent to each other and were compatible. At the same time, the intellectual culture of Europe on which the Yale education was based was quite fluid, and soon pitted Puritan ideals against new ideas.
University growth
Yale was unaffected by the American Revolutionary War of 1776–1781, and the university grew significantly during its first hundred years. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, graduate and professional institutes were founded that transformed Yale into a true university. In 1810, the Faculty of Medicine was officially established at Yale, followed by the Faculty of Theology in 1822, and the Faculty of Law in 1824. In 1847, postgraduate studies began in the fields of exact, natural and human sciences. In 1861, the Yale Graduate School awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy for the first time in the United States. In 1869, the Faculty of Art History was founded at Yale, in 1894 - the Faculty of Music, in 1900 - the Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Protection, in 1923 - the Faculty of Nursing, in 1955 - the Theater Faculty, in 1972 - Architectural, and in 1974 - Faculty of Management.
Since 1869, graduate students at Yale University have enrolled women. In 1969, Yale began enrolling female students in its four-year undergraduate program.
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College dormitories
Directly across the street is the Yale UK Art Center, opened in 1977. It houses the world's largest collection of British art and illustrated books outside the UK. Founded in 1866, the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History houses one of the finest collections of scientific artifacts in North America. These include extensive ornithological and mineral collections, America's second-largest repository of dinosaur remains, and the world's largest complete preserved brontosaurus. Peabody is not just a museum, but an active research and cultural center that combines all areas of activity: exhibition, educational, security, research and teaching. The Yale Art Gallery, the UK Art Center and the Peabody Museum house only a portion of the university's collections. All of Yale's art, from Picasso's masterpieces and the remains of an ancient pterodactyl to the Museum's 1689 viola, is available to visitors. However, the greatest wealth of the university is those who work and study there: students inspired by example, carried away by the talent and teaching skills of their professors and teachers, who, in turn, constantly draw new ideas from communicating with students.
Musical groups
Vocal groups of university students have received international recognition: Schola Cantorum and Yale Voxtet. Conductor and organist David Hill (since July 2013) is chief conductor Schola Cantorum Yale University. The ensemble was created in 2003 by conductor Simon Carrington, toured in most European countries (in Russia in June 2016), China, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Turkey; has numerous entries. Schola Cantorum specializes in the performance of ancient and modern academic music. The main guest conductor of this ensemble is Masaaki Suzuki.
Exact, natural and applied sciences
Because Yale is widely known for its achievements in the humanities, many do not realize that the university is also one of the leading research centers in the United States. Yale's departments of biology, chemistry, molecular biophysics and biochemistry, physics, astronomy, mathematics, computer science, geology and geophysics, environmental science, and others are consistently ranked among the very best university programs in America. Optimal conditions have been created here for training students in fields such as biomedicine, applied chemistry, electrical and other engineering sciences, first-class laboratories are equipped with the latest technology. Three observatories were organized at Yale University: directly on the university campus, in South Africa, the Yale-Columbia Southern Observatory, and in Argentina.
Building on its strengths, Yale is investing more than $500 million to expand and improve the science and engineering departments' laboratories and teaching facilities. Over the next decade, the university will make an additional investment of more than $500 million to develop its facilities for research in medicine and biotechnology.
Development of international relations at Yale
Yale University's tradition of international relations dates back to the early nineteenth century, when professors and faculty began undertaking scientific and educational trips abroad. Yale was one of the first universities to welcome foreign students: the first Latin American student came here in the 1830s, and the first Chinese student to receive a university education on American soil came to Yale in 1850. Today Yale is actively involved in various international programs and research.
The university teaches more than 50 foreign languages and more than 600 courses related to international relations in one way or another. The Yale Center for International Studies, a leader in this field for four decades, currently offers six undergraduate majors and four graduate majors. The Center for Applied Linguistics Research, the Center for Globalization Studies, and the International Finance Center support and develop the growing interest in international programs and enrich the activities of Yale's professional faculties.
Yale is proud of the increase in the number of its international students. Some faculties have more than thirty percent of foreign graduate students; Sixteen percent of all Yale College students came from other countries. The Yale Global Scholars Program will bring to Yale each academic year future outstanding individuals from around the world who will make significant contributions to the development of their countries; More than 1,500 foreign scientists from more than 100 countries come to live and work at Yale every year.
Famous graduates
William Taft
John Calhoun
Henry Stimson
John Kerry
Mario Monti
Josiah Gibbs
Harvey Cushing
Sinclair Lewis
Meryl Streep
Politicians
Five US presidents graduated from Yale University:
- Taft, William Howard - 27th President of the United States (1909-1913), 10th Chief Justice of the United States (1921-1930);
- Ford, Gerald Rudolph - 38th President of the United States (1974-1977), 40th Vice President of the United States (1973-1974);
- Bush, George Herbert Walker - 41st President of the United States (1989-1993), 43rd Vice President of the United States (1981-1989);
- Clinton, William Jefferson - 42nd President of the United States (1993-2001);
- Bush, George Walker - 43rd President of the United States (2001-2009).
Other US government officials:
- Wolcott, Oliver - 2nd US Secretary of the Treasury (1795-1800);
- Calhoun, John Caldwell - 7th Vice President of the United States (1825-1832), 16th Secretary of State (1844-1845);
- Taft, Alfonso - 31st US Secretary of War (1876), 34th US Attorney General (1876-1877);
- Clayton, John - 18th US Secretary of State (1849-1850);
- Evarts, William - 27th US Secretary of State (1877-1881);
- McVey, Franklin - 45th US Secretary of the Treasury (1909-1913);
- Stimson, Henry - 46th US Secretary of State (1929-1933), 45th and 54th US Secretary of the Army (1911-1913 and 1940-1954);
- Gray, Gordon - 2nd US Secretary of the Army (1948-1950), 5th National Security Advisor to the President of the United States (1958-1961);
- Acheson, Dean - 51st US Secretary of State (1949-1953);
- Lovett, Robert - 4th US Secretary of Defense (1951-1953);
- Fowler, Henry Hammill - 58th US Secretary of the Treasury (1965-1968);
- Vance, Cyrus - 57th US Secretary of State (1977-1980);
- Baldrige, Malcolm - 27th US Secretary of Commerce (1981-1987);
- Meese, Edwin - 75th Attorney General of the United States (1985-1988);
- Brady, Nicholas Frederick - 68th US Secretary of the Treasury (1988-1993);
- Rubin, Robert Edward - 70th US Secretary of the Treasury (1995-1999);
- Ashcroft, John David - 79th United States Attorney General (2001-2005);
- Clinton, Hillary - 67th US Secretary of State (2009-2012), 44th First Lady of the US (1993-2001), candidate for US President from the Democratic Party in the 2016 elections;
Yale University in the USA (Yale University) is considered one of the most influential educational institutions around the world. It was here that famous personalities studied: George Bush, Bill Clinton and others. Yale University graduates include influential politicians, company directors, lawyers, scientists, and other famous creative personalities.
Yale University was founded by former graduates in 1701 who were disillusioned with the education of the time. Initially, only boys could study at Yale until the mid-20th century. Moreover, until 1930, education was conducted exclusively in Latin, and it was also forbidden to speak English outside of class. Also, students were required to attend church meetings and study the Bible. The idea of the university was, first of all, to teach the student moral principles. But, unfortunately, today the university has deviated from this course. For example, at the university there is an LGBT department for gays and lesbians, which scientifically promotes unnatural homosexual relationships to the masses.
Today Yale is the main attraction of New Haven, Connecticut, which occupies a huge area and hundreds of buildings. On the territory of the university there are historical buildings, towers, arches, and other attractions built by famous architects. Also, most of the land of the educational institution (which is about 243 hectares) is filled with parks, sports grounds, and dormitory buildings.
Old part of Yale University
The university has all kinds of faculties. Medical, Faculty of Theology, Law, Natural Sciences and Humanities, Arts, Music, Faculty of Forestry, Theater, Architecture, Faculty of Management. Each of which has its own centers, laboratories and other specialized institutions. In general, the university curriculum includes 3,800 courses and 10 faculties. The peculiarity of studying at Yale is that the Liberal Arts education policy is used. When a student himself, during a certain period of study, chooses which specialty he will study in the future.
Reading room at the university
The most famous attraction at Yale University is the library, which has about 11 million books, various archives, records, and historical exhibits. It is believed to be the third largest library in the United States. In first place so far remains the Library of the US Congress, which has about 33 million books.
Library at Yale University
Admission to Yale University
Tuition at the university is paid and amounts to about 38-40 thousand dollars. in year. Read also what it is. Expenses for food and accommodation can range from 7-11 thousand dollars. in year. But it is worth noting that 40-50% of students receive scholarships or other benefits. Like other famous educational institutions in the world, Yale University is open to international students. On average, about 10% of all students are foreigners.
The oldest university in the United States, founded in 1701 by Harvard graduates.
Located on the northeastern coast of the United States, in the port city of New Haven, Connecticut.
It is included in the Ivy League (an association of the 8 best universities in America), as well as in the “Big Three” of the best universities in the USA, along with and.
The university's educational program is distinguished by its breadth, depth and academic content.
In the first decades of the existence of the university (which was then called Yale), a small number of students studied within its walls - about a hundred (25-30 people per course).
The university president himself took the oral entrance exams.
The main subjects for admission were foreign languages - Greek, Hebrew, Latin, and knowledge of logic, rhetoric and arithmetic was also tested.
Latin was the official internal language college, and English was officially prohibited within the walls of the institution.
From the end of the 17th century, after the end of the American War of Independence, the university began to actively develop academically.
New buildings began to be built, new faculties were opened. Medical, law, and graduate schools were opened. By the end of the 19th century, faculties of art and music, as well as the faculty of environmental protection and forestry, were opened.
Yale graduates were Nobel laureates, US presidents (George Bush, Bill Clinton, etc.), famous figures of science and art (Hollywood stars Meryl Streep, Jodie Foster, Paul Newman, David Duchovny).
Yale's symbol (as well as the mascot of its sports teams) is traditionally considered to be an image of a bulldog named Handsome Dan.
Yale University Faculties
Currently, in addition to the faculties listed above, The university also has departments:
- architecture;
- dramas;
- applied sciences and engineering;
- management;
- healthcare;
- theology.
Features of Yale University
Present-day Yale occupies a huge area on which hundreds of buildings are located, and some of them are active historical monuments that are landmarks of the city and state.
Here is located second largest library in the USA, which houses more than 11 million books and valuable historical documents.
A significant part of the territory is filled with parks and sports grounds.
A special place in Yale's infrastructure is occupied by campuses - student dormitories(here they are called colleges).
The model for Yale's student dormitories was similar administrative buildings in English universities and.
In total, the university has 12 college dormitories with a population of 400-500 people each.
Each of these colleges represented by several buildings forming a cozy courtyard with trees, lawns and benches.
It has its own dining rooms, meeting rooms, libraries, and rooms for academic studies.
Students spend all their time here, socializing, visiting interest clubs, student communities and sports sections.
There are also so-called “secret” student societies - organizations to which only initiates and a select few are allowed access.
It is believed that some of these societies have (or have had) a serious influence on US politics.
The university has about 11,000 students from America and around the world. Foreign students here make up approximately 10-15% of the total number.
At Yale, much attention is paid to sports.
The university has many sports teams representing football, hockey, rowing, basketball, volleyball, sailing and many other sports.
Yale's traditional rival is Harvard..
The university's football team (we are talking about the American version of football) has its own stadium for games with a capacity of 60,000 spectators.
Yale students claim that it was they who invented the game “Frisbee.”
How to get into Yale
To enroll in this university, an applicant (in addition to having a certificate of education with good grades) must first visit the official website of Yale University. There he fills out an application form for admission (processing costs $75).
In addition, you will need to pass several test exams and receive passing grades for them.
At Yale, more than half of the students receive scholarships.
The annual scholarship amount is approximately $35,000.
Approximately 10% of Yale students study completely free.
If the applicant knows English well, expresses his views competently, is independent in his judgments, has been involved in social or entrepreneurial activities and has a passing test score - welcome to Yale University, USA, Connecticut.
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