Yale University, a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut, is a member of the Ivy League. Yale has produced many notable alumni, including five U.S. presidents, seventeen U.S. Supreme Court Justices, and several foreign heads of state.

Beginning in the 1930s, Yale established its residential colleges: 12 now exist and two more are planned. These residential colleges provide the perfect setting for a program like SIG where our goal is to facilitate a learning community in the most optimal sense. Today, Yale’s buildings, towers, lawns, courtyards, walkways, gates, and arches comprise what one architecture critic has called the most beautiful urban campus in America.

Fun Facts!

• Yale was ranked 3rd in 2012 among national universities by U.S. News and World Reports.
• Founded in 1701, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States.
• In 1861, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences became the first U.S. school to award the Ph.D.