Yale University is a research university in New Haven, Connecticut. It was founded in 1701 as the Collegiate School and was renamed Yale College in 1718. Its fact sheet, based on 2025 data, lists 15,657 students across 15 schools.
Forestry is taught at the Yale School of the Environment (YSE), established in 1900 as The Yale Forest School with a founding gift from the family of Gifford Pinchot. It took its present name in 2020 and at the same time created the Forest School at the Yale School of the Environment. The school says it offers 14 master’s and three doctoral programmes and hosts more than 20 centres, programmes and initiatives. The Yale Forests manage 10,777 acres of forestland used for teaching and research. Related units include The Forests Dialogue, the Tropical Resources Institute and the Quiet Corner Initiative, which the school says partners with private landowners, natural resource managers and forest industry professionals.