Yale University

New Haven, CT

Yale says it offers a liberal arts education "that aims to cultivate a broadly informed, highly disciplined intellect without specifying in advance how that intellect will be used....[I]ts main goal is to instill knowledge and skills that students can bring to bear in whatever work they eventually choose." [Source]

General Education Requirements

  • 1. Composition

    NO

    See Note

    No credit given for Composition because the "Writing" requirement may be satisfied by over 150 courses spanning 45 different departments that do not focus primarily on composition and writing instruction.

  • 2. Literature

    NO
  • 3. Foreign Language

    YES
  • 4. U.S. Government or History

    NO
  • 5. Economics

    NO
  • 6. Mathematics

    NO

    See Note

    No credit given for Mathematics because the "Quantitative Reasoning" requirement may be satisfied by science and economics courses.

  • 7. Science

    YES
  • Additional Information

    Notably, the Directed Studies program--an optional freshman-year sequence open only to selected students--offers an integrated study of great books and ideas.

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