Yale University
Yale, founded in 1701, is known as
an American private Ivy League research university in New
Haven, Connecticut.
Yale University is the third-oldest institution of
higher education in the United States and was named Yale
College in 1718 in recognition of a gift from Elihu Yale,
who was governor of the British East India Company.
Yale was originally established to train
Congregationalist ministers in theology and by 1777 its
curriculum began to include humanities and science.
By the 19th century the school
incorporated graduate and professional instruction awarding
the first Ph.D. in the United States in 1861.
Yale University has a traditional
affiliation with Vassar College, a private coeducational
college in New York and one of the
Seven Sisters
colleges - an association of seven liberal arts colleges
in the Northeastern United States which are historically
women's colleges. One
of the seven private women’s colleges is
Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts.