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Introduction to Yale University
Yale University is a private university located in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Founded in 170 1, formerly known as "CollegiateSchool". Yale University, the third university established in American history, is now a member of the Ivy League.

In the Times World University Ranking in 2006, Yale University ranked fourth in the world on average. In 2006, Princeton Review ranked Yale University as the second most difficult university in the United States. Yale University is most famous for its humanities, arts, history and law majors.

Yale University's industry includes $654.38+052 billion in donations (the second university institution in the world) and more than 10 libraries with more than 6543.8+0654.38+0 million books. Yale University has about 3,200 faculty members, 5,200 undergraduates and more than 6,000 graduate students. Yale University is also the university with the largest number of Roche scholarships except Harvard University.

Yale University regards undergraduate education as the core of the university. This kind of attention is rare in similar universities in the United States. The 70 majors in Yale College mainly focus on general education, and only a few undergraduate departments focus on professional preparation. Even the engineering department of Yale University encourages and requires students to explore and study fields outside the engineering discipline. About 20% of students in Yale College major in natural science, 35% in social science and 45% in humanities and arts. Yale University requires all professors to teach their undergraduate courses. Yale University has more than 2,000 courses to choose from in its annual course catalogue (or blue book).

Yale University implements the "residential college" system similar to Oxford University and Cambridge University. Freshmen are randomly assigned to Yale University 12 residential college. Except for a few special circumstances, all students will live in the college for four years (freshmen and sophomores must live in dormitories). Each college has its own complete facilities, including dining room, library, gym, art studio, piano room, camera darkroom, computer room, laundry room, table tennis room and student kitchen. Most colleges also have their own movie theaters or theaters, rock climbing rooms, squash courts and saunas, which are open to our college students 24 hours a day. Each college has a master's degree and a dean, who are responsible for students' social activities and study life respectively. Every week, the dean of each hospital will invite celebrities from all fields to hold a tea party called "Master'sTea", and undergraduates can also participate. There are many celebrities invited from the United States and even the world in politics, business, sports, entertainment and social welfare. /zd/lx