Residential colleges of Yale University
Yale University has a system of fourteen residential colleges with which all Yale undergraduate students and many faculty are affiliated. Inaugurated in 1933, the college system is considered the defining feature of undergraduate life at Yale College, and the residential colleges serve as the residence halls and social hubs for most undergraduates. Construction and programming for eight of the original ten colleges were funded by educational philanthropist Edward S. Harkness. Yale was, along with Harvard, one of the first universities in the United States to establish a residential college system.
The campuses of Davenport College (above) and Pierson College (below), Yale's two Georgian Revival colleges
The Memorial Quadrangle, completed in 1920, was the colleges' residential template.
Edward Harkness, who funded the construction of eight colleges in 1930
The Berkeley Oval, a student dormitory torn down for Berkeley College
Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701, Yale is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution.
Charter creating the Collegiate School, which became Yale College, October 9, 1701
A front view of "Yale-College" and the college chapel, printed by Daniel Bowen in 1786
Coat of arms of the family of Elihu Yale, after whom the university was named in 1718
Connecticut Hall, oldest building on the Yale campus, built between 1750 and 1753
