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Yale College Student Body Characteristics
Total number of undergraduate students: 5,247
- 88% of undergraduates live in University housing.
- 99% of Freshman return for their sophomore year.
- 95% graduate within five years; 96% graduate within six years.
- 85% are from out-of-state.
Yale's Commitment to Undergraduate Teaching
- Student:faculty ratio in Yale College 7:1
- Student:faculty ratio in Engineering 1:1
- All tenured professors of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences teach undergraduate courses.
- 75% of courses enroll fewer than 20 students
- 29% of courses enroll fewer than 10 students
Resources and Facilities
- $300 million residential college renewal project
- $500 million currently for new science facilities
- A 900-acre campus with over 200 buildings
- Over a dozen libraries totaling 12.5 million volumes
- Sterling Memorial Library - second largest university library in the country
- Payne Whitney Gymnasium - second largest gymnasium in the world
Yale College Graduates – One Year after Graduation*
- Overall Employment – 74%
- Education - 19%
- Business & Finance – 19%
- Industry – 7%
- Government & Public Service – 6%
- Arts & Sciences Graduate Study – 7%
- Business School - 1 %
- Law School – 4%
- Medical School– 7%
*45% of Yale College alumni plan to pursue graduate study 1-2 years after graduation
Yale Graduates Who Have Made a Difference
- U.S. Presidents William Howard Taft, Gerald Ford, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush
- Maya Lin, designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
- Dr. Benjamin S. Carson, Sr., Director of the Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins and author of three best selling books: Gifted Hands, Think Big, and The Big Picture
- Marian Wright Edelman, founder of The Children's Defense Fund
- Philip S. Deloria, Director, American Indian Law Center, expert on the rights of indigenous peoples
- U.S. Senators and Governors including Hillary Clinton, Joseph Lieberman, John Kerry, Amy Klobuchar, James Jeffords, Howard Dean, Tony Knowles, and George Pataki
- Entertainers Jodie Foster, Angela Bassett, Sigourney Weaver, Sam Waterston, Ed Norton and Meryl Streep
- Chris Lee, former President of TriStar Pictures and Columbia Pictures
- Gary Trudeau, creator of "Doonesbury"
- Ming Tsai, host of "Simply Ming" on PBS
- Supreme Court Justices Byron White, Potter Stewart, and Clarence Thomas
- Indra Nooyi, President and Chief Financial Officer of PepsiCo
- Professional and Olympic athletes, including Virginia Gilder (Olympic rower), Chris Dudley (NBA), Calvin Hill (NFL), Ron Darling (MLB), and Christine Ernst (Olympic rower)
- Dr. Patricia Nez Henderson, Vice-President of the Black Hills Center for American Indian Health
- Michiko Kakutani, New York Times book critic
- Twelve Nobel Laureates, most recently John Fenn (Chemistry, 2002), Raymond Davis (Physics, 2002), George Akerlof (Economics, 2001), David Lee (Physics, 1996), Eric Wieschaus (Physiology and Medicine, 1995), and Alfred Gilman (Physiology and Medicine, 1994)
Equal Opportunity Statement
The University is committed to basing judgments concerning the admission, education, and employment of individuals upon their qualifications and abilities and affirmatively seeks to attract to its faculty, staff, and student body qualified persons of diverse backgrounds. In accordance with this policy and as delineated by federal and Connecticut law, Yale does not discriminate in admissions, educational programs, or employment against any individual on account of that individual's sex, race, color, religion, age, disability, status as a special disabled veteran, veteran of the Vietnam era or other covered veteran, or national or ethnic origin; nor does Yale discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity or expression.
