
Yale University
Yale University is also known as YU according to AbbreviationFinder.org. Founded in 1701 and located in the historic city of New Haven in the state of Connecticut. More than 2,000 undergraduate courses are offered each year in nearly sixty-five faculties and academic programs, forming a curriculum of extraordinary variety and depth. The faculty on the faculty are dedicated to teaching undergraduate students, a commitment for which Yale has long been recognized.
History
Yale’s roots can be traced to the 1640s when a group of members of the colonial clergy took the initiative to establish a college in New Haven to preserve the European tradition of liberal education in the New World. This vision was fulfilled in 1701 when the school was awarded the concession. In 1718 the name of the school changed to Yale College in appreciation of the Welsh merchant Elihu Yale who donated the proceeds from the sale of nine bundles of products, 417 books, and a painting of King George I.
Yale College survived intact the American Revolutionary War (1776 – 1781) and at the end of its first hundred years had grown rapidly. The nineteenth and twentieth centuries brought the establishment of graduate and professional schools that would make Yale a true university.
The Yale School of Medicine was licensed in 1810, followed by the School of Theology in 1822, the School of Law in 1824, and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 1847 (which, in 1861, awarded the first Ph. D. (Ph.D. in the United States), followed by the schools of Art in 1869, Music in 1894, Forest Engineering and Environmental Studies in 1900, Nursing in 1923, Drama in 1955, Architecture in 1972, and Administration in 1974. The University began admitting women at the graduate level in 1869 and at the undergraduate level in 1969.
Residential Colleges
Yale College was transformed in the early 1930s by the establishment of residential colleges. Using medieval English universities such as the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge as a model, this distinctive system divides the undergraduate population into twelve separate communities, each with around 450 members. This allows Yale to offer its students the intimacy of a small college setting while offering the vast resources of a large research university. Each school is located around an interior courtyard and occupies up to an entire city block.
It also provides a welcoming community where residents live, eat, socialize, and practice a variety of academic and extracurricular activities. Each college has a preceptor teacher and a dean, in addition to a number of resident faculty members called fellows. Each college also has its own cafeteria, library, seminar rooms, recreation rooms, and other facilities.
Currently
Yale University has matured into one of the best universities in the world. Its 11,000 students come from all fifty American states and 110 different countries. The female and male faculty, many of them leaders in their respective fields, represent a rich demographic diversity. The central campus now covers 170 acres (69 hectares) stretching from the Nursing School in Downtown New Haven to the residential, tree-lined streets around the College of Theology. Yale’s 225 buildings include contributions from distinguished architects from all periods of its history.
Architectural styles range from New England Colonial to Victorian High Gothic, Moorish Renaissance to contemporary. Yale’s buildings, towers, landscaping, courtyards, sidewalks, gates, and arches create what one architecture critic has called “the most beautiful urban campus in America.” The University also maintains nearly 600 acres (243 hectares) of athletic fields and nature reserves.
Kentucky University
University of Kentucky. Educational institution for the teaching and learning of Higher Education, known as UK, is a public institution, different specialties are studied in them.
History
The university was founded in 1865, it is the educational institution of the state in number of students, with 27,226 students. The tuition fee at the University of Kentucky (UK) for a foreigner during the year 2012 – 2013 is € 13,643 and for a Kentucky resident it is € 6,645.28. A student will pay approximately € 6,688 to live on campus. To live off campus, a student will pay approximately € 6,688.
The institution admits 69% of candidates. The SAT average for admitted students is 1650. Of the admitted students, 75% have received a score greater than 500 and 25% have received a score greater than 630 on the math section of the SAT. In the writing section of the SAT test, 75% of admitted students have received a score greater than 490 and 25% have received a score greater than 620. The total number of students enrolled is 27,226. Of the enrolled students, 5% of the candidates are foreigners.