Yale University's School of Architecture was established in the early 18th century. It focuses on building design and construction, with an emphasis on hands-on learning. The school values architecture as a collaborative art that improves communities. It takes a broad approach by exposing students to diverse viewpoints rather than promoting a single style. Financial aid is available based on need. International students must meet additional application requirements including English proficiency exams. First-year tuition and fees are approximately $59,000 while subsequent years are around $57,500.
2. Yale ‘s History
Yale’s roots can be traced back to the 1640s, when colonial clergymen
led an effort to establish a college in New Haven to preserve the
tradition of European liberal education in the New World. This vision
was fulfilled in 1701, when the charter was granted for a school
“wherein Youth may be instructed in the Arts and Sciences [and]
through the blessing of Almighty God may be fitted for Publick
employment both in Church and Civil State.” In 1718 the school was
renamed “Yale College” in gratitude to the Welsh merchant Elihu Yale,
who had donated the proceeds from the sale of nine bales of goods
together with 417 books and a portrait of King George I.
3. Yale University comprises three major academic
components: Yale College (the undergraduate program), the
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and the professional
schools. In addition, Yale encompasses a wide array of centers
and programs, libraries, museums, and administrative support
offices. Approximately 11,250 students attend Yale.
4. The Sustainable Food Project,
established at Yale in 2001,
oversees a dining program with a
seasonal menu, manages a model
college farm (shown here) just a
10-minute walk from central
campus, and supports
educational endeavors
concerning food and agriculture.
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6. Today, Yale has matured into one of the world’s great universities. Its 11,000
students come from all fifty American states and from 108 countries. The 3,200-
member faculty is a richly diverse group of men and women who are leaders in their
respective fields. The central campus now covers 310 acres (125 hectares) stretching
from the School of Nursing in downtown New Haven to tree-shaded residential
neighborhoods around the Divinity School. Yale’s 260 buildings include contributions
from distinguished architects of every period in its history. Styles range from New
England Colonial to High Victorian Gothic, from Moorish Revival to contemporary.
Yale’s buildings, towers, lawns, courtyards, walkways, gates, and arches comprise what
one architecture critic has called “the most beautiful urban campus in America.” Yale's
West Campus, located 7 miles west of downtown New Haven on 136 acres, was
acquired in 2007 and includes 1.6 million square feet of research, office, and
warehouse space that provides opportunities to enhance the University’s medical and
scientific research and other academic programs. The University also maintains over
600 acres (243 hectares) of athletic fields and natural preserves just a short bus ride
from the center of town.
7. Branford Court, typical of
Yale’s enclosed courtyards,
provides space for planned
and spontaneous residential
college activities. The
residential college system,
established in 1931, isthe
heart of the Yale
undergraduate experience.
Every student is assigned to
one of the twelve colleges,
which serve as a “home base”
for four years. Here, students
share meals, spend free time,
receive academic counseling,
and enjoy access to a broad
range of extracurricular
programs.
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9. Welcome
“As Yale enters its fourth century, our goal is to become a truly global
university—educating leaders and advancing the frontiers of
knowledge not simply for the United States, but for the entire world.”
“The globalization of the University is in part an evolutionary
development. Yale has drawn students from outside the United States
for nearly two centuries, and international issues have been
represented in its curriculum for the past hundred years and more.
But creating the global university is also a revolutionary
development—signaling distinct changes in the substance of teaching
and research, the demographic characteristics of students, the scope
and breadth of external collaborations, and the engagement of the
University with new audiences.”
10. Scholarships & Fellowships
Yale University is committed to an affordable education for students from
every background. Diversity defines the Yale experience for those who teach
and study here, and it raises our reputation for excellence worldwide. We
invite you to learn more about ways you can help support our students.
Scholarships are vital in Yale College, where students are admitted regardless
of means and nearly 60 percent receive financial aid. Spendable gifts and new
endowed funds to meet this continuing need are a priority for the University.
Fellowships play a critical part in Yale’s professional schools, where many
students rely on a combination of financial aid and student loans to pay for
their education. Donor support is vital to reduce their burden of debt
following graduation.
The Graduate School pays the full cost of educating its Ph.D. candidates, and
giving to fellowships there can have a major impact on Yale’s academic
mission. In the course of a typical program, a student can require more than
$270,000 in tuition and stipends.
Please visit our Gift Guide to see a range of giving opportunities to benefit
students at Yale.
11. To be accepted to study at Yale,
interested applicants must apply directly
to the school, college, or program where
the degree will be awarded: Yale College
for undergraduate degrees; the
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences for
doctoral programs and some master’s
degrees; or one of the professional
Professional schools
schools. School of Architecture
School of Art
Divinity School
School of Drama
School of Engineering & Applied Science
School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
Law School
School of Management
School of Medicine
School of Music
School of Nursing
School of Public Health
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12. My ideal program~~The school of architecture DEAN’S LETTER
Architecture's relationship to the wider world school of architecture is
My ideal program~~The it serves continually evolves but always there
at its core an unchanging belief that the act of building is in and of itself a great and ennobling
undertaking. In too many schools students and teachers now seem disinterested in
building, distracted by cyberspace and a search for ways to transform the art of building into
something else. Architecture is not a branch of information science; it is not a kind of
electronics.
At Yale we continue to believe in architecture as the most palpable of all the arts and the
most public, the art of the here and now, the art of making and preserving fixed places that are
the settings for the interaction of people and ideas over time. At Yale, we hold the act of
building paramount: the logical manipulation of environmental closure in the service of
particular functions and symbolic purposes. This is our overwhelming preoccupation; this is the
quintessence of architecture as an art and as a profession. We are wary of trends masquerading
as ideas. In a time of hyper-specialization Yale remains committed to a broad and deep
generalism. To be effective, an architect must recognize and respond to a host of factors
that taken in their totality describe the architectural problem which a building represents: a
building is not the solution but a solution. We embrace the complexities and the contradictions
of the contemporary, recognizing that today's issues are not for architects to tackle in a vacuum.
Architecture is a collaborative art, embracing local community groups, as in the affordable house
that is our annual First Year Building Project, and environmentalism represented by our on-going
collaboration in design and research with the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
New Haven, one of America's most representative cities, remains a principal canvas of our
investigations into urban issues, but we also turn our attentions to New York and to a number of
13. My ideal program~~The school of architecture
DEAN’S LETTER
The fundamental philosophical breadth of our approach is not only curricular and geographical
but also artistic; we refuse to promote a single conception, artistic or otherwise, of what
architecture is or might become. We recognize our obligation to the historic moment in which
we study and teach and build, but we also recognize that that moment, however unique, is
neither singular nor unchanging nor disconnected from the past or the future. Some would
argue that in our postmodern era architecture has shifted from an objective to a subjective
realm, and that, as a consequence, authority for judgment has passed from traditional measures
of function, history, context or even technology to one dominated by psychological criteria,
giving rise to a mood architecture obliged only to appeal to the tastes of clients or a limited
coterie of aficionados. We are not so sure but we certainly recognize the psychological approach
to our art needs to be examined along with those of other specialized, deterministic
methodologies. Architecture is never one thing; it is a constellation of possibilities. A university
is about open questions and not about definitive answers.
Many architecture schools function as academies, fostering a certain "true" way, insistent about
one mode of aesthetic expression and one way of doing architecture, straight-jacketing students
in isms and ideologies. But today's "ism" has a way of becoming tomorrow's "wasm". Singular
systems of design are no substitute for methodologies; our responsibility is to see architecture
from many sides; most of all, our responsibility is to think problems through. We do not
celebrate a false, single-minded unity or even pretend that consensus can always be achieved;
rather we hold open the doors of perception to the wide world of diversity. We welcome debate,
even disagreement.
14. My ideal program~Financial
Aid
Admission to the School of Architecture is determined without regard to a student’s
ability to pay the full cost of his or her education. The School’s financial aid policies are
designed to maximize the financial assistance to all students with demonstrated need,
as determined by the Financial Aid Office.
A student’s financial need, considered to be the total cost of education less the
student’s resource contribution, is first met with an established level of self-help. For
students with financial need beyond the established level of self-help, the School of
Architecture will award a need-based scholarship. Awarded need-based scholarship is
determined by the higher of the two following methods of calculation.
An Individual Resource Scholarship is intended for students who do not wish to or
who are unable to provide parental resource information. In an effort to equitably
award available need-based scholarship among qualified students, the award amount
for Individual Resource Scholarships has an upper limit and in some cases, therefore,
may not fully cover a student’s financial need. A Family Resource Scholarship is
intended for students who wish to and are able to provide parental resource
information. For a student with limited family resources, a Family Resource Scholarship
may yield a higher scholarship award than an Individual Resource Scholarship.
Submitting parental resource information will not affect the calculation of an
Individual Resource Scholarship award.
15. My ieal program~Requirements for International Students
All international student applicants for the 2012–2013 academic year at the Yale
School of Architecture must complete the General Test of the Graduate Record
Examination (GRE) Program.
In addition, all applicants whose native language is not English are required to take the
Internet-based test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL iBT), a test that includes a
section on spoken English (see Standardized Examinations in the chapter Admissions).
Any transcripts, letters of reference, or other application material written in a
language other than English must be accompanied by a certified translation.
In order to receive visa documentation, international students must submit proof that
income from all sources will be sufficient to meet expenses for that year of study. Each
student accepting admission to the School must submit an International Student
Certification of Finances Form for I-20 Visa Application. This form is due April 15 with
acceptance of the admission offer. It must be completed and signed by the parents
(and spouse, if applicable) of an international applicant, and must include all bank and
tax information.
16. My ideal program~~The school of architecture
~~~~FEES
•First-Year •All other
M.Arch. I students
•Tuition •$39,450 •$39,450
•Fees •940 •940
•Yale Health Plan
Hospitalization/S
pecialty
•1,522* •1,522*
Coverage
•Room and Board •12,780 •11,680
•Books/Personal
•4,100 •3,900
Expenses
•______ •______
•$58,792 •$57,492
![Yale ‘s History
Yale’s roots can be traced back to the 1640s, when colonial clergymen
led an effort to establish a college in New Haven to preserve the
tradition of European liberal education in the New World. This vision
was fulfilled in 1701, when the charter was granted for a school
“wherein Youth may be instructed in the Arts and Sciences [and]
through the blessing of Almighty God may be fitted for Publick
employment both in Church and Civil State.” In 1718 the school was
renamed “Yale College” in gratitude to the Welsh merchant Elihu Yale,
who had donated the proceeds from the sale of nine bales of goods
together with 417 books and a portrait of King George I.](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)