Benjamin Franklin College
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Benjamin Franklin College is one of fourteen residential colleges at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Named after Benjamin Franklin, who received an honorary degree from Yale in 1753, the co
Benjamin Franklin, namesake of the college
Yale Harkness Tower
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 defi
Benjamin Franklin College
…Benjamin Franklin College is one of fourteen residential colleges at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Named after Benjamin Franklin, who received an honorary degree from Yale in 1753, the college opened to…
The campuses of Davenport College (above) and Pierson College (below), Yale's two Georgian Revival colleges
Edward Harkness, who funded the construction of eight colleges in 1930
The Berkeley Oval, a student dormitory torn down for Berkeley College
Pierson College library after its 2004 renovation