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Yale University
Yale University
is an American
private
Ivy League
research university
in
New Haven, Connecticut
. Founded in 1701 in
Saybrook Colony
as the Collegiate School, the University is the
third-oldest institution
of
higher education
in the
United States
. The school was renamed Yale College in 1718 in recognition of a gift from
Elihu Yale
, who was governor of the
British East India Company
. In 1731, received a further gift of land and slaves from Bishop Berkeley. Established to train
Congregationalist
ministers in theology and
sacred languages
, by 1777 the school's curriculum began to incorporate humanities and sciences and in the 19th century gradually incorporated graduate and professional instruction, awarding the first
Ph.D.
in the United States in 1861 and organizing as a university in 1887.
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