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Yale University

Private university in New Haven, Connecticut

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About

instance of
inception
  • 1701
named after
official name
  • Yale University
native label
  • Yale University
motto text
  • Lux et Veritas (la) · reason for preferred rank: editorial choice
  • Light and Truth
  • אור ואמת (he)
  • Свет и Правда (ru)
legal form
industry
language used
academic calendar type
official color

Location and contact

country
located in the administrative territorial entity
headquarters location
street address
  • Woodbridge Hall, New Haven, CT, 06520
postal code
  • 06520
coordinate location
  • 41.3111, -72.9267
official website

People and numbers

count of students
  • 14,429 · full-time equivalent · 1 September 2021
  • 12,336 · September 2014
  • 5,477 · undergraduate student · September 2014
  • 6,859 · graduate student · September 2014
employees
  • 3,619
admission rate
  • 7% · 2020
admission yield rate
  • 55% · 2020
position held by head of the organization
chairperson

Rankings and recognition

ranking
  • 16 · QS World University Rankings · 2026
  • 9 · Times Higher Education World University Rankings · 2026
  • 14 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2025
Earlier figures (34)
  • 23 · QS World University Rankings · 2025
  • 16 · QS World University Rankings · 2024
  • 18 · QS World University Rankings · 2023
  • 14 · QS World University Rankings · 2022
  • 17 · QS World University Rankings · 2021
  • 17 · QS World University Rankings · 2020
  • 15 · QS World University Rankings · 2019
  • 16 · QS World University Rankings · 2018
  • 15 · QS World University Rankings · 2017
  • 15 · QS World University Rankings · 2016
  • 10 · QS World University Rankings · 2015
  • 8 · QS World University Rankings · 2014
  • 7 · QS World University Rankings · 2012
  • 11 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2024
  • 11 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2023
  • 11 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2022
  • 11 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2021
  • 11 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2020
  • 11 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2019
  • 12 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2018
  • 11 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2017
  • 11 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2016
  • 11 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2015
  • 11 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2014
  • 11 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2013
  • 11 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2012
  • 11 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2011
  • 11 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2010
  • 11 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2008
  • 11 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2007
  • 11 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2006
  • 11 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2005
  • 11 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2004
  • 8 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2003
Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education

Finances

endowment
  • $41,383,300,000 · 30 June 2022
Earlier figures (2)
  • $42,282,900,000 · 30 June 2021
  • $31,201,686,000 · 30 June 2020
total revenue
  • $6,841,256,079 · 2024
Earlier figures (13)
  • $6,315,023,788 · 2023
  • $7,410,414,729 · 2022
  • $7,616,500,018 · 2021
  • $5,595,177,145 · 2020
  • $5,551,534,852 · 2019
  • $5,089,937,007 · 2018
  • $4,678,330,813 · 2017
  • $4,807,997,730 · 2016
  • $5,461,672,525 · 2015
  • $4,477,633,568 · 2014
  • $3,688,471,185 · 2013
  • $3,627,023,737 · 2012
  • $3,488,705,694 · 2011
total assets
  • $55,210,972,740 · 2024
Earlier figures (13)
  • $54,308,947,172 · 2023
  • $54,599,818,948 · 2022
  • $56,104,600,801 · 2021
  • $44,696,382,000 · 30 June 2020
  • $40,533,606,066 · 2019
  • $39,065,768,707 · 2018
  • $36,620,475,385 · 2017
  • $34,103,002,387 · 2016
  • $34,133,509,535 · 2015
  • $32,031,841,267 · 2014
  • $28,911,175,542 · 2013
  • $28,321,347,357 · 2012
  • $27,801,734,697 · 2011
donations
  • $1,419,967,393 · 2024
Earlier figures (13)
  • $1,328,427,356 · 2023
  • $1,427,195,501 · 2022
  • $1,680,260,285 · 2021
  • $1,356,612,031 · 2020
  • $1,312,238,680 · 2019
  • $1,024,899,090 · 2018
  • $1,080,694,163 · 2017
  • $963,188,552 · 2016
  • $910,761,374 · 2015
  • $878,354,797 · 2014
  • $846,509,395 · 2013
  • $863,987,731 · 2012
  • $1,239,645,403 · 2011
funder
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $199,998 · award rationale: to provide analysis of extensive open source and commercial satellite imagery of Russia's atrocities in Ukraine to civil society organizations working to ensure accountability for these crimes · 2023
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $44,000 · award rationale: to support the Grantee's work in undertaking research towards the development of the UN CESCR General Comment on drugs policies · 2023
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $400,000 · award rationale: to support the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy in developing a collaborative, multi-stakeholder process of workshops and advocacy that aims to develop consensus around reforms to the trade ecosystem that is better suited to address contemporary challenges, including the promotion of greater global equity, sustainable development, and climate justice · 2023
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $450,000 · award rationale: to support the MacMillan Center to host two scholars from Southeast Asia for a research fellowship · 2022
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $150,000 · award rationale: to support the Yale Law School - Information Society Project's Majority World Initiative to create and support an academic community of practice of Global South scholars to enable them contribute to social media global platform accountability debates · 2022
7 more
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $100,000 · award rationale: to support the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization · 2021
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $125,000 · award rationale: to provide support to the Yale Law School - Information Society Project to protect internet users rights · 2021
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $200,000 · award rationale: to document, examine, and influence in real-time, the policy decisions and actions related to the 2020 coronavirus pandemic (COVID–19) and their effect on the most vulnerable and marginalized populations · 2020
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $149,091 · award rationale: to support policy advocacy on diversion programs and decriminalization of sex work · 2019
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $24,954 · award rationale: to provide a space for a multi-disciplinary dialogue meeting that can clarify a human rights evidence-base for gestational surrogacy, which would promote and protect the rights, needs and well-being of all parties involved in gestational surrogacy · 2018
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $150,512 · award rationale: to host a conference with high level experts around a post-UNGASS and post-prohibition era drug policy agenda to chart a path forward for reform · 2016
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $19,960 · award rationale: to conduct a policy and legal analysis that outlines the legal strategies that Native American tribes in the United States could utilize, on the basis of tribal sovereignty claims, to gain greater access to affordable hepatitis C treatment · 2016

Structure and memberships

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athletics program

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  • Yale University
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  • 128.36.0.0/16 · since 15 August 1983
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  • Yale University
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  • Template:Yale · object of statement has role: Wikimedia navigational template
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social media followers
  • 698,500 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 5695032 · 9 February 2023
  • 398,000 · YouTube channel ID: UCSh-dNnqe1agUSzPM01LgBA · 15 March 2025
Earlier figures (6)
  • 610,179 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 5695032 · 21 February 2022
  • 550,552 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 5695032 · 5 January 2021
  • 361,000 · YouTube channel ID: UCSh-dNnqe1agUSzPM01LgBA · 23 March 2024
  • 338,000 · YouTube channel ID: UCSh-dNnqe1agUSzPM01LgBA · 17 February 2023
  • 299,000 · YouTube channel ID: UCSh-dNnqe1agUSzPM01LgBA · 17 March 2022
  • 234,000 · YouTube channel ID: UCSh-dNnqe1agUSzPM01LgBA · 2 July 2021
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  • 5365 · subject named as: Osborn Botanical Laboratory.
  • 34278 · subject named as: Yale University
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  • 2028815 · subject named as: ЙЕЛЬСКИЙ УНИВЕРСИТЕТ
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  • 073277886 · subject named as: Yale university (New Haven, Conn.). School of architecture
  • 026433540 · subject named as: Yale university (New Haven, Conn.)
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  • yale · Instagram numeric ID: 1701574
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  • n79043367 · subject named as: Yale University
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  • 5755 · subject named as: Yale University
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  • yale · language of work or name: English
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  • 86700 · subject named as: Yale University
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  • Yale · has characteristic: verified account or profile · number of subscribers: 503,098 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 5695032 · since 1 May 2007
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  • UCSh-dNnqe1agUSzPM01LgBA · subject named as: YaleUniversity · number of works: 3,092 · number of subscribers: 209,000 · number of viewers/listeners: 24,613,243 · 9 December 2020
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  • 19634767 · subject named as: 耶鲁大学 (Yale University)
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