"as such. However, an analysis by the Regional Data Cooperative for Greater New Haven, Inc., has shown that due to issues of comparative denominators and other factors, such municipality-based rankings can be considered inaccurate. For example, two cities of identical population can cover widely differing land areas, making such analyses irrelevant. The research organization called for comparisons based on neighborhoods, blocks, or standard methodologies (similar to those used by Brookings, DiversityData, and other established institutions), not based on municipalities. New Haven is a notable center for higher education. Yale University, at the heart of downtown, is one of the city's"
"University of New Haven The University of New Haven (UNH) is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational university located in West Haven, Connecticut, which borders the larger city of New Haven and Long Island Sound. U.S. News & World Report has named the University the 100th best university in the northeastern United States as well as in the top tier of engineering programs nationwide in its annual ""America's Best Colleges"" rankings. Between its main campus in West Haven and its graduate school campus in Orange, Connecticut, the University is situated on approximately 122 acres of land. Combining a liberal arts education with"
"best known features and its largest employer. New Haven is also home to Southern Connecticut State University, part of the Connecticut State University System, and Albertus Magnus College, a private institution. Gateway Community College has a campus in downtown New Haven, formerly located in the Long Wharf district; Gateway consolidated into one campus downtown into a new state-of-the-art campus (on the site of the old Macy's building) and was open for the Fall 2012 semester. There are several institutions immediately outside of New Haven, as well. Quinnipiac University and the Paier College of Art are located just to the north,"
"University of Connecticut The University of Connecticut (UConn) is a public land grant, National Sea Grant and National Space Grant research university in Storrs, Connecticut, United States. It was founded in 1881. The primary 4,400-acre (17.8 km) campus is in Storrs, Connecticut, approximately a half hour's drive from Hartford and 90 minutes from Boston. It is a flagship university that is ranked as the best public national university in New England and is tied for No. 18 in Top Public Schools and No. 56 in National Universities in the 2018 ""U.S. News & World Report"" rankings. UConn has been ranked"
"in September 2007. The university renovated an existing building on the campus, which now serves as home to the Frank H. Netter M.D. School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University, the School of Health Sciences, the School of Nursing, the School of Law, and the School of Education. The 2017 Hallmark Channel Christmas movie ""Romance at Reindeer Lodge"" was primarily filmed on location at a North Haven home. North Haven, Connecticut North Haven is a town in New Haven County, Connecticut on the outskirts of New Haven, Connecticut. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 24,093. North Haven"
"Yale-New Haven Health System Yale New Haven Health System (YNHHS) is a non-profit healthcare system with corporate headquarters in New Haven, Connecticut. It is Connecticut’s largest healthcare system with 2,409 beds, and includes hospitals, physicians and related health services throughout Connecticut and into New York and Rhode Island. Major institutions affiliated with the system include Bridgeport Hospital, Greenwich Hospital, Lawrence+Memorial Hospital, Westerly Hospital, Smilow Cancer Hospital, Yale New Haven Hospital, Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital, Yale New Haven Psychiatric Hospital and Northeast Medical Group. Yale New Haven Health System was formed in 1996 through a partnership between Bridgeport and Yale"
"percent. New facilities include the David A. Beckerman Recreation Center, Soundview residence hall (Celentano Hall), the Henry C. Lee Institute of Forensic Science, and Westside residence hall. Situated on about 75 acres overlooking the Connecticut shoreline the main campus is 90 minutes by train to New York City and 2 ½ hours from Boston. Six satellite campuses are located in New London, CT (on the campus of Mitchell College), Waterbury, CT, Shelton, CT, Newington, CT, Albuquerque, NM, and Prato, Italy. The University of New Haven was founded in 1920 as the New Haven YMCA Junior College, a division of Northeastern"
"of the most powerful ends that ever played football"" for Yale. In the popular TV show ""The Simpsons"", Mr. Burns is a Yale alumnus. Yale University Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine Colonial Colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Chartered by Connecticut Colony, the ""Collegiate School"" was established by clergy to educate Congregational ministers. It moved to New Haven in 1716 and shortly after was renamed Yale College in recognition of a"
"Yale University Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine Colonial Colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Chartered by Connecticut Colony, the ""Collegiate School"" was established by clergy to educate Congregational ministers. It moved to New Haven in 1716 and shortly after was renamed Yale College in recognition of a gift from British East India Company governor Elihu Yale. Originally restricted to theology and sacred languages, the curriculum began to incorporate humanities and sciences"
"benefits, including uncompensated, under-compensated and charity care. Yale-New Haven Health System Yale New Haven Health System (YNHHS) is a non-profit healthcare system with corporate headquarters in New Haven, Connecticut. It is Connecticut’s largest healthcare system with 2,409 beds, and includes hospitals, physicians and related health services throughout Connecticut and into New York and Rhode Island. Major institutions affiliated with the system include Bridgeport Hospital, Greenwich Hospital, Lawrence+Memorial Hospital, Westerly Hospital, Smilow Cancer Hospital, Yale New Haven Hospital, Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital, Yale New Haven Psychiatric Hospital and Northeast Medical Group. Yale New Haven Health System was formed in 1996"
"Notre Dame High School (West Haven, Connecticut) Notre Dame High School (NDWH) is a private, Roman Catholic, all-male college preparatory school located in West Haven, Connecticut, a coastal suburb of New Haven, Connecticut. Notre Dame High School was founded in 1946 by the Congregation of Holy Cross, the same religious institute that established the University of Notre Dame. The school's name derives from the French ""Notre Dame"", meaning ""Our Lady"". Situated on a hill, the school originally comprised several buildings, one of which is Harugari Hall (now in the possession of the neighboring University of New Haven). Announced in 2007,"
"New Haven, the university holds of athletic facilities, including the Yale Golf Course. In 2008, Yale purchased the former Bayer Pharmaceutical campus in West Haven, Connecticut, the buildings of which are now used as laboratory and research space. Yale also owns seven forests in Connecticut, Vermont, and New Hampshire—the largest of which is the Yale-Myers Forest in Connecticut's Quiet Corner—and nature preserves including Horse Island. Yale is noted for its largely Collegiate Gothic campus as well as several iconic modern buildings commonly discussed in architectural history survey courses: Louis Kahn's Yale Art Gallery and Center for British Art, Eero Saarinen's"
"and Senior Federal District Judge Kimba Wood. Connecticut College Connecticut College (Conn College or Conn) is a private liberal arts college located in New London, Connecticut. It is a residential, four-year undergraduate institution with nearly all of its approximately 1,815 students living on campus. The college was founded in 1911 as ""Connecticut College for Women"" in response to Wesleyan University closing its doors to women in 1909; it shortened its name to ""Connecticut College"" in 1969 when it began admitting men. Students choose courses from 41 majors, including an interdisciplinary, self-designed major. ""Forbes"" ranked Connecticut College 81st in its 2016"
"year. The UConn women's basketball team holds the record for the longest consecutive winning streak in NCAA college basketball at 111 games, a streak that ended in 2017. The UConn Huskies football team has played in the Football Bowl Subdivision since 2002, and has played in four bowl games. New Haven biennially hosts ""The Game"" between the Yale Bulldogs and the Harvard Crimson, the country's second-oldest college football rivalry. Yale alumnus Walter Camp is deemed the ""Father of American Football"", and he helped develop modern football while living in New Haven. Other Connecticut universities which feature Division I sports teams"
"able to accomplish this by housing 6 centers of excellence: The New Haven Chargers are the athletic teams that represent the University of New Haven, located in West Haven, Connecticut, in NCAA Division II intercollegiate sports. The Chargers' 17 athletics teams, 7 for men and 10 for women, compete as members of the Northeast-10 Conference. New Haven has been a member of the NE-10 since 2008. In 2016-2017, the women's volleyball and baseball team won Northeast-10 Conference championships. Overall 12-of-16 teams qualified for postseason play, while six teams (men's & women's cross country, volleyball, baseball, women's lacrosse and softball) advanced"
"University of Connecticut, Cornell University, Denison University, Dickinson College, Duke University, Fordham University, George Mason University, George Washington University, Georgetown University, Goucher College, Hamilton College, High Point University, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Hofstra University, James Madison University, University of Kentucky, Kenyon College, University of Maryland, University of Massachusetts, University of Michigan, Mount Holyoke College, New York University, New York Institute of Technology, University of New Hampshire, University of North Carolina, Parsons School of Design, Pennsylvania State University, Rhode Island School of Design, University of Richmond, Savannah College of Art and Design, Syracuse University, Temple University, Towson University, Tufts University,"
"of the city of West Haven. In 2007, the Connecticut Supreme Court decided in Miron v. University of New Haven Police Department (SC 17596) that employers had the right to give critical job reviews. University of New Haven Police The University of New Haven Police is the university police department of the University of New Haven, which has an campus in West Haven, Connecticut. Its 16 officers are state certified and sworn law enforcement officers, protecting the campus area 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. They protect approximately 6500 students, that live in on campus residence halls, and"
"Connecticut College Connecticut College (Conn College or Conn) is a private liberal arts college located in New London, Connecticut. It is a residential, four-year undergraduate institution with nearly all of its approximately 1,815 students living on campus. The college was founded in 1911 as ""Connecticut College for Women"" in response to Wesleyan University closing its doors to women in 1909; it shortened its name to ""Connecticut College"" in 1969 when it began admitting men. Students choose courses from 41 majors, including an interdisciplinary, self-designed major. ""Forbes"" ranked Connecticut College 81st in its 2016 overall list, 45th in the Northeast, 68th"
"College (at Long Wharf) combined resources with the former Greater New Haven State Technical College in North Haven. Gateway Community College Gateway Community College (GCC) is a public community college with is main campus in New Haven, Connecticut and an automotive technology campus in North Haven, Connecticut. As of February 17, 2010, GCC had the highest credit enrollment among Connecticut's community colleges, with 7416 students enrolled in for-credit classes. It was formed in 1992 by the merger of South Central Community College in New Haven and the Greater New Haven State Technical College in North Haven. Gateway Community College was"
"Haven, Connecticut in 1718, where it has remained to the present day. Brown University was the first college in the nation to accept students of all religious affiliations, and is the seventh oldest U.S. institution of higher learning. It was founded in Providence, Rhode Island in 1764. Dartmouth College was founded five years later in Hanover, New Hampshire with the mission of educating the local American Indian population as well as English youth. The University of Vermont, the fifth oldest university in New England, was founded in 1791, the same year that Vermont joined the Union. In addition to four"
"Southern Connecticut State University Southern Connecticut State University (also known as Southern and frequently abbreviated as Southern Connecticut, Southern Connecticut State, and SCSU) is a state university in Connecticut. Part of the Connecticut State University System, it was founded in 1893 and is governed by the Connecticut Board of Regents for Higher Education. SCSU is located in the West Rock neighborhood of New Haven, Connecticut. On September 11, 1893, New Haven State Normal School, a two-year teacher training school, was established. The Skinner School, a two-story building, was used as the first campus. It was situated on State Street at"
"New Haven Academy New Haven Academy is a four-year, ninth through twelfth grade high school in New Haven, CT. New Haven Academy was founded by Gregory Baldwin and Meredith Gavrin in 2003 as an interdistrict magnet school and part of the New Haven Public School district. The school provides a college preparatory education modeled for Collaborative Education (ICE), a New York City school. Enrollment in the 2017-2018 year is approximately 280. New Haven Academy is a member of the Coalition of Essential Schools (CES). New Haven Academy has a partnership with Facing History and Ourselves. Ninth and tenth graders take"
"University in Princeton, New Jersey; Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut – all ranked amongst the top 3 U.S. national universities as per ""U.S. News & World Report"" as of 2018 – reside in the region, as well as New York University and The Rockefeller University, both located in Manhattan; all of the above have been ranked amongst the top 35 universities in the world. Rutgers University, a global university located southwest of Manhattan in New Brunswick, New Jersey, is by far the largest university in the region. New York Institute of Technology is located on two campuses, one in"
"Worthington Hooker School Worthington Hooker School is a neighborhood school in the East Rock neighborhood of New Haven, Connecticut. It is part of the New Haven public school system. The school is named after former Yale University professor and physician Dr. Worthington Hooker (1806–1867). The school serves students from kindergarten through eighth grade in two separate buildings, an elementary school (K-2) and a middle school (3-8). The student body of around 450 students includes a very high percentage of children of Yale University professor's students, and as such, is much more multi-cultural than other New Haven public schools. The school"
"Connecticut, and New Haven, Connecticut. (See also History of Connecticut industry.) 1831 saw the establishment of Wesleyan University which was to become one of the United States' leading liberal arts institutions. The institution replaced an earlier institution on the same site, Partridge's American Literary, Scientific and Military Academy, which had moved to Norwich, Vermont and later became Norwich University. The two main buildings of the original campus were built by the people of Middletown with the intent of attracting an academic institution to the city. In 1841, Middletown established the state's first public high school, which at first enrolled all"
"Haven is featured in the Princeton Review’s 2017 “Best 381 Colleges” guidebook. Only about 15 percent of America’s 2,500 four-year colleges are profiled in “The Best 381 Colleges” guidebook. The previous two years, the University was included in the Princeton Review's “Best in the Northeast” list. In the 2016 U.S. News & World Report rankings, the University of New Haven was tied for 95th in the regional universities (north) category. It is the seventh consecutive year the University was named a top tier comprehensive university by �U.S. News & World Report. In 2015, the University of New Haven's College of"
"out of eight Ivy League schools, New England contains the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Tufts University, four of the original Seven Sisters, the bulk of educational institutions that are identified as the ""Little Ivies"", one of the eight original Public Ivies, the Colleges of Worcester Consortium in central Massachusetts, and the Five Colleges consortium in western Massachusetts. The University of Maine, the University of New Hampshire, the University of Connecticut, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, the University of Rhode Island, and the University of Vermont are the flagship state universities in the region. At the pre-college level, New"
"Greater New Haven Greater New Haven is the metropolitan area whose extent includes those towns in the U.S. state of Connecticut that share an economic, social, political, and historical focus on the city of New Haven. It occupies the south-central portion of the state in a radius around New Haven. The region is known for its educational and economic connections to Yale University, oceanside recreation and the beach-community feel of the shoreline towns east of New Haven, and the trap rock landscapes stretching north from New Haven. The New Haven metropolitan statistical area (MSA) is the set of municipalities containing"
"greater part of New Haven County, surrounding the city of New Haven, the district's population center, regional hub of southern Connecticut, and home to Yale University. The district is the most diverse region of Connecticut, with many Irish, Italian, Polish, Jewish, Greek, Asian, and African-American communities. More recently, New Haven as a growing population of Ecuadorians. Since reapportionment, the 3rd District now also includes the entirety of the Naugatuck Valley, a crucial component of the former 5th district. While the district does take in some of Connecticut's wealthy coastal towns such as Guilford, most of the coastal towns in the"
"campus in downtown New Haven, the University owns athletic facilities in western New Haven, a campus in West Haven, Connecticut and forest and nature preserves throughout New England. The university's assets include an endowment valued at $29.4 billion as of October 2018, the second largest endowment of any educational institution in the world. The Yale University Library, serving all constituent schools, holds more than 15 million volumes and is the third-largest academic library in the United States. Yale College undergraduates follow a liberal arts curriculum with departmental majors and are organized into a social system of residential colleges. Almost all"
"Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Although the school's primary sports mascot is a bulldog named Handsome Dan, the yale can be found throughout the university campus. The mythical beast occupies two quadrants of the coat of arms of the Yale Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), playfully representing the intellectual curiosity and inquiry of the FAS faculty. The yale is also depicted on the official banner of the president of the university, which, along with a wooden mace capped by a yale's head, is carried and displayed during commencement exercises each spring. Yales can be seen above the gateway"
"Connecticut and other states, international tribunals and adjudicative bodies, administrative processes, and private arbitration. The Yale Law School has greatly expanded its clinical programs in recent years, adding eight new clinics during the 2016-2017 academic year. Yale Law School Yale Law School (often referred to as Yale Law or YLS) is the law school of Yale University, located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Established in 1824, Yale Law offers the J.D., LL.M., J.S.D., M.S.L., and Ph.D. degrees in law. The school's small size and prestige make its admissions process the most selective of any law school in the United"
"are Quinnipiac University, Fairfield University, Central Connecticut State University, Sacred Heart University, and the University of Hartford. The name ""Connecticut"" originated with the Mohegan word ""quonehtacut"", meaning ""place of long tidal river"". Connecticut's official nickname is ""The Constitution State"", adopted in 1959 and based on its colonial constitution of 1638–1639 which was the first in America and, arguably, the world. Connecticut is also unofficially known as ""The Nutmeg State,"" whose origin is unknown. It may have come from its sailors returning from voyages with nutmeg, which was a very valuable spice in the 18th and 19th centuries. It may have"