unitid 130794 · New Haven, CT · private nonprofit 4-year · city (midsize)
Yale University
Private university in New Haven, Connecticut, US
- founded
- 1701
- enrollment 2023
- 16,416
- predominant degree
- Bachelor's
- website
- yale.edu
- motto
- “Light and Truth”
Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States. It is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. wikipedia rev 1364151575 ↗
scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within private nonprofit 4-years
The record
admission rate
4%
1st pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
undergraduates
6,758
95th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
Pell share
20%
undergrads on Pell grants
21st pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
completion
96%
finish within 150% time
97th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
sticker cost / yr
$88,300
99th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
avg net price / yr
$23,777
after aid, aided students
58th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
median earnings, 10 yr
$100,533
after entry, Title IV students
97th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
median grad debt
$12,975
6th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
what families actually pay
Cost
Sticker price is a fiction for most families — net price is what aided students pay after grants, by family income.
Average net price by family income, 2023–24 aid cohort
Families earning under $30k paid $17,633 per year after aid.
Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of private nonprofit 4-years (all incomes).
Who enrolls, by family income
family income mix not reported
- Median family income
- $44,004
- First-generation students
- 25%
- In-state tuition & fees
- $67,250
earnings · debt · programs
Outcomes
Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid
Ten years out, the median graduate earns 7.7× the median graduate debt.
Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.
What programs pay — top fields of study
| program | grads | earn 5 yr | debt |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business Administration, Management and Operations. | 555 | $213,202 | — |
| Law. | 224 | — | — |
| Economics. | 182 | $131,171 | $13,250 |
| Computer and Information Sciences, General. | 164 | $271,466 | $12,750 |
| Natural Resources Conservation and Research. | 157 | $95,750 | — |
| Public Health. | 151 | $94,970 | — |
| Music. | 125 | — | — |
| Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions. | 113 | $129,385 | — |
| Political Science and Government. | 107 | $123,834 | $15,000 |
| Medicine. | 107 | — | — |
| Theological and Ministerial Studies. | 102 | $70,739 | — |
| Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing. | 101 | $128,563 | — |
— is privacy suppression at small programs, never zero. Earnings are median, 5 years after completing.
annual scorecard files, 1996–2026
Trajectory
Line breaks are years where the measure wasn't collected — a gap is not a zero.
Admission rate
Price per year
- sticker
- net
Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry
Undergraduates
wikidata · 13,619 people recorded
Memory
Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
Field fingerprint — share of recorded alumni by field
Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade
People without a recorded gender are excluded; decades with fewer than 5 recorded alumni are dropped.
Wikipedia attention
monthly article views since 2015
most recorded occupationsresearcher (2,584) · university teacher (2,183) · writer (911) · politician (721) · lawyer (701) · historian (660) · basketball player (547) · journalist (493)
Nobel laureates who studied here
- Sinclair Lewis Literature 1930
- George Whipple Medicine 1934
- Ernest Lawrence Physics 1939
- John Franklin Enders Medicine 1954
- Dickinson W. Richards Medicine 1956
- Joshua Lederberg Medicine 1958
- Lars Onsager Chemistry 1968
- Murray Gell-Mann Physics 1969
- Alfred G. Gilman Medicine 1994
- Eric F. Wieschaus Medicine 1995
- David Lee Physics 1996
- William Vickrey Economics 1996
- George Akerlof Economics 2001
- Raymond Davis Jr. Physics 2002
- John Fenn Chemistry 2002
- Edmund Phelps Economics 2006
- Peter Diamond Economics 2010
- Richard Henderson Chemistry 2017
- William Nordhaus Economics 2018
- John B. Goodenough Chemistry 2019
- Philip H. Dybvig Economics 2022
- Douglas Diamond Economics 2022
- James A. Robinson Economics 2024
- Joel Mokyr Economics 2025
The portrait wall
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George H. W. Bush
194 wikis · Public domain
Gerald Ford
175 wikis · Public domain
Meryl Streep
132 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Alexei Navalny
130 wikis · CC BY 3.0
Sinclair Lewis
119 wikis · Public domain
Jodie Foster
117 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dick Cheney
113 wikis · Public domain
JD Vance
110 wikis · Public domain
John Kerry
109 wikis · Public domain
Cyril Ramaphosa
99 wikis · CC BY 4.0
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
94 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
Ernest Lawrence
93 wikis · Public domain
Murray Gell-Mann
92 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
Edward Norton
90 wikis · CC BY 4.0
James Fenimore Cooper
90 wikis · Public domain
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Provenance
- U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, 2026-06 release. Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Suppressed values are null, never imputed.
- Annual Scorecard files 1996-2026. A null in early years usually means the measure was not yet collected, not zero.
- Coordinates and locale describe the campus address, not where students live.
- Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
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