| | '''Yale University,''' located in New Haven, [[Connecticut]], is the third oldest university in the United States (after [[Harvard]] and [[College of William and Mary|William and Mary]]). Its endowment of $16 billion is second to Harvard overall (although Princeton has more per student). | | '''Yale University,''' located in New Haven, [[Connecticut]], is the third oldest university in the United States (after [[Harvard]] and [[College of William and Mary|William and Mary]]). Its endowment of $16 billion is second to Harvard overall (although Princeton has more per student). |
| − | There are numerous components, including the undergraduate '''Yale College''' and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, as well as world famous professional schools of Law, Medicine, Architecture, Art, Divinity, Drama, Engineering & Applied Science, Forestry & Environmental Studies. Management, Music, and Public Health, along with many research centers. | + | There are numerous components, including the undergraduate '''Yale College''' and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, as well as world-famous professional schools of Law, Medicine, Architecture, Art, Divinity, Drama, Engineering & Applied Science, Forestry & Environmental Studies. Management, Music, and Public Health, along with many research centers. |
| | Yale was heavily oriented toward undergraduates until 1919, when under President Arthur Hadley (1899-1921) and James Angell (1921–37) it moved rapidly to become a full-scale university. It isolated the undergraduates into separate residential "colleges" taught primarily by a separate faculty, while the big-name professors concentrated on research and gradate-level professional training. | | Yale was heavily oriented toward undergraduates until 1919, when under President Arthur Hadley (1899-1921) and James Angell (1921–37) it moved rapidly to become a full-scale university. It isolated the undergraduates into separate residential "colleges" taught primarily by a separate faculty, while the big-name professors concentrated on research and gradate-level professional training. |