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Yale University

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New Haven, United States
10th in World University Rankings 2025
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About Yale University

Basic information and contact details for Yale University

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Yale University is a private Ivy League research university which is the third-oldest higher education institution in the US.

Yale traces its history back to 1701, when it was founded as the Collegiate School in Saybrook, Connecticut, which moved to New Haven 15 years later.

In 1718 it was renamed Yale College, in honour of Welsh benefactor Elihu Yale, and it was the first university in the US to award a PhD, in 1861.

Yale’s central campus covers 260 acres of New Haven, and includes buildings dating back to the mid-18th century.

The university is made up of 14 schools, and students follow a liberal arts curriculum, covering humanities and arts, sciences and social sciences before choosing a departmental major. Students also receive instruction in writing skills, quantitative reasoning and foreign languages.

Unusually for the US, Yale students are housed in residential colleges on the model of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. There are 12 historic colleges, and construction of two more started in 2014.

Around one in five students is international, and more than half of all undergraduates receive scholarships or grants from the university.

Yale has an endowment that exceeds $25 billion (£17.3 billion), making it the second-richest educational institution in the world, and a library that holds more than 15 million volumes, making it the third-largest in the US.

Yale alumni and sports teams are known as “Bulldogs”, and many Yale graduates have gone on to notable careers in politics, the arts and science.

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. Twenty Yale alumni have won Nobel prizes, including economist Paul Krugman, while 32 have won the Pulitzer Prize.

Other notable alumni include US secretaries of state Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, and actress Meryl Streep.

Yale’s campus includes many famous buildings, such as the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, the Peabody Museum of Natural History and the Sterling Memorial Library.

New Haven is a city of about 130,000 people, located two and a half hours south of Boston, and an hour and a half north of New York. It has many shops, museums and restaurants, and is close to beaches, hiking trails and historic attractions.

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Rankings

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World University Rankings 2025
20406080100
Overall 94.1
Teaching 93.7
Research Environment 95
Research Quality 97.8
Industry 86.5
International Outlook 82.3
88909294201620172018201920202021202220232024202587.488.287.691.391.791.690.891.494.294.1

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Ranking positions 2016 to 2025
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Key Student Statistics

A breakdown of student statistics at Yale University

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Student gender ratio
53 F : 47 M (1)
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International student percentage
22% (1)
student per staff
Students per staff
6.2 (1)
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Student total
14401 (1)

Based on data collected for the (1) World University Rankings 2025

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Subjects Taught at Yale University

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Physical Sciences=12th

  • Chemistry
  • Geology, Environmental, Earth and Marine Sciences
  • Physics and Astronomy
  • Mathematics and Statistics

Computer Science24th

  • Computer Science

Social Sciences11th

  • Sociology
  • Politics and International Studies

Life Sciences6th

  • Agriculture and Forestry
  • Biological Sciences

Clinical and Health=6th

  • Medicine and Dentistry
  • Other Health

Law9th

  • Law

Business and Economics11th

  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Business and Management
  • Accounting and Finance

Arts and Humanities10th

  • Languages, Literature and Linguistics
  • History, Philosophy and Theology
  • Archaeology
  • Art, Performing Art and Design
  • Architecture

Engineering18th

  • General Engineering
  • Chemical Engineering
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Psychology7th

  • Psychology