Yale University
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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 alumni among U. S. Presidents include both George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush (Yale College), as well as William Howard Taft (Yale College), Gerald R. Ford (Yale Law School), and Bill Clinton (Yale Law School).[1]
Students and alumni are often referred to as Elis (after Elihu Yale) or Yalies.