Yale university

Yale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 as the Collegiate School, Yale is the third-oldest institution of higher educa­tion in the United States and is a member of the Ivy League. Yale has educated five US president as well as many foreign heads of state. In 1861, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences became the first US school to award the Ph. D.

The university's assets include a $17 billion endowment (the second-largest of any academic institution) and more than a dozen libraries that hold a total of 12.5 million volumes (making it according to Yale, the world's second-largest university library system). Yale has 3,300 faculty members, who teach 5,300 undergradu­ate students and 6,000 graduate students. Yale offers 70 undergraduate majors: few of the undergraduate departments are pre-professional. About 45% of Yale undergraduates major in the arts and humanities, 35% in the social sciences, and 20% in the sciences. All tenured professors teach undergraduate courses, more than 2,000 of which are offered annually. Yale's graduate programs include those in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences -covering 53 disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, biology, physical sciences, and engineering - and those in the Professional Schools of Architecture, Art, Divinity, Drama, Forestry & Environmental Sciences, Law, Management, Medicine, Music, Nursing, and Public Health.

Yale's residential college housing system is modeled after those of Oxford and Cambridge. Each residential college houses a cross-section of the under­graduate student body and has its own facilities, seminars, resident faculty and graduate fellows.

Yale and Harvard have been rivals in academics, rowing, and football for most of their history, competing annually in The Game and the Harvard-Yale Regatta.

У Гарварда сегодня есть девять способностей, а именно: Отделение гуманитарных наук и Науки и его подспособность, Школа Технических и прикладных наук, Подразделение Гарварда Дальнейшего образования, включая Летнюю школу Школы и Гарварда Расширения Гарварда, Медицинский факультет, включая Медицинскую школу и Школу Гарварда Зубной Медицины, Гарвардскую школу права и Школу бизнеса Гарварда. У Гарварда есть несколько спортивных средств.

Систему Библиотеки Гарвардского университета, сосредоточенную в Библиотеке Widener в Ярде Гарварда и включении более чем 80 отдельных библиотек и более чем 15 миллионов объемов, считают четвертой по величине коллекцией библиотеки в мире, после Библиотеки Конгресса, британской Библиотеки, и французского Bibliotheque Nationale. Гарвард описывает свою библиотеку как "крупнейшую академическую библиотеку в мире" и гордится для того, чтобы быть единственной из пяти "мегабиблиотек" в мире, чтобы иметь открытые стеки.

Американские Новости и Лучшие Колледжи "Америки Мирового Отчета 2008" оценили Гарвард как самый отборный студенческий колледж в Соединенных Штатах, и второй в разряде лучших национальных университетов.