'''Yale University,''' located in New Haven, Connecticut, is the second oldest university in the United States, and the first university in the United States to award a Ph. D. degree. It is a member of the Ivy League, and, with Harvard and Princeton, part of the group known as the Big Three or HYP, which are associated both with academic excellence and with social prestige. | '''Yale University,''' located in New Haven, Connecticut, is the second oldest university in the United States, and the first university in the United States to award a Ph. D. degree. It is a member of the Ivy League, and, with Harvard and Princeton, part of the group known as the Big Three or HYP, which are associated both with academic excellence and with social prestige. |