Yale University is an American private, Ivy League university that is located in New Haven, Connecticut and was founded in 1971 in the Colony of Connecticut and is the third oldest higher education institution in the United States. Yale University was originally incorporated as the Collegiate School with roots that trace back to the 17th century clergymen who wanted to establish a college where clergymen could be trained as well as political leaders for the colony. In 1861, Yale University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences was the first United States university to award the Ph.D. Today, Yale University employs over 1,100 faculty members and has 5,300 undergraduate students and 6,100 graduate students. The university has a $16.3 billion endowment, which is the second largest endowment for any academic institution and the second largest academic library in the world. Yale University has graduated 49 Nobel Laureates, 5 United States Presidents, 19 United States Supreme Court Justices and several foreign heads of state. MORE

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