extended to international students
Yale announced that it will admit international students to Yale College without regard to financial need, effective immediately, and it will provide sufficient need-based financial aid to cover the cost of attending Yale.
This initiative will ensure that Yale can attract the strongest candidates for undergraduate admission from around the world. Previously, only applicants from the United States and Canada were admitted on a need-blind basis and given sufficient aid to cover their full need. International applicants were allocated financial aid funds from a limited pool.
"Yale College has long prided itself on offering educational opportunity to outstanding students without regard to their ability to pay," Yale College Dean Richard H. Brodhead said. "Today's announcement extends this freedom to students around the world. From now on, when students from any part of the globe have the intelligence, dedication, thoughtfulness, and creativity to be admitted here, Yale will make sure that they can afford to come."
The news about needs-blind admission coincides with the University's announcements about other key international initiatives: Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott will direct the new Yale Center for the Study of Globalization; the University will launch the World Fellows Program for emerging leaders of other countries; and Yale will establish the first of three new interdisciplinary professorships in international studies. (See related story.)
These announcements build on Yale's long tradition of leadership across the globe.
For example, the first native of China ever to graduate from an American college or university earned a B.A. from Yale in 1854. In addition, the University was a pioneer in foreign field work, undertaking one of the first archeological digs of any university in the Middle East in the early 1900s.
Today, the University is massively involved in international and area studies, teaching 52 foreign languages and offering more than 600 courses a year related to international affairs. Many of Yale's advanced professional schools are already at the forefront of internationalizing their student bodies: nearly 40% of students in the School of Music are international students, as are a third in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and a quarter in the School of Management.
Yale has the largest international community in its history, with more than 1,560 international students and 900 international scholars from more than 100 countries. The number of international students at Yale has grown 29% in the last decade.
In recent years, about 8% of Yale College students have come from outside the United States. Due to the ceiling on funds available for financial aid, Yale College did not offer admission to many highly qualified students from around the world.
Among leading U.S. institutions, only Harvard University has in place a policy identical to the one Yale just announced. All other schools ration the amount of aid given to international students.
Yale College currently provides $30 million in financial aid to nearly 40% of its 5,300 undergraduates. The University plans to raise funds to endow this new initiative for international students.
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