President's Welcome

Welcome to Yale. We invite you to visit us at any time and explore the richness of our campus.

When some people think of Yale they think first of its undergraduate school, Yale College. Yale is indeed well known for the strength of its college, where its 5,200 students learn to lead and serve not only through a strong academic curriculum but also by participation in a host of extracurricular activities, from athletics to community service. Yale students are also famous for forming and shaping their own clubs and organizations and over 240 of these now exist, some over a century old and others formed just this year.

Yale is also a major research university. It carries on its education and research on the graduate level in eleven graduate and professional schools: the graduate school of arts and sciences, business, divinity, forestry & environmental studies, law, medicine, nursing and four schools of the arts—architecture, art, drama and music. The university is also home to one of the world's great libraries and three outstanding public museums and galleries—the Peabody Museum of Natural History, the University Art Gallery, and the Center for British Art—all helping to enrich the cultural climate of the university and city.

Yale is a university with honored traditions. In the diversity of its students, its global outlook, and its outstanding research, it is also a university of compelling change. We welcome your interest in the university and in our community. Please browse Yale's web pages for information on all aspects of the university and its students, faculty and staff. If you are in the New Haven area, our Visitor Center offers daily tours of the campus and its architecture and facilities.