Yale School of the Environment

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Yale School of the Environment (YSE) is a professional school of Yale University. It was founded to train foresters, and now trains environmental students through four 2-year degree programs, two 10-month mid-career programs, and a 5-year PhD program. Still offering forestry instruction, the school has the oldest graduate forestry program in the United States.

Yale School of Forestry, Class of 1904

Kroon Hall, as seen from Prospect Street

Sage Hall, completed in 1924

The school's main buildings, bottom center, on Science Hill

Yale University

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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