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Yale University is situated 90 minutes from New York in the city of New Haven, Connecticut.

Whether you’re in town for an admissions information session or simply want to join one of the many activities happening here, we invite you to explore our campus and community. Take a guided tour, attend a concert, or stroll through our scenic and historic Old Campus.

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Yale Campus Tours: All Your Options on How to Tour Yale University

(Updated October 2022, Originally Posted March 2021) Whether you’re visiting New Haven as a tourist or as a prospective student, touring Yale’s incredible campus in the heart of the city is one of the best (and free) activities to do here. Catch a glimpse into what life is like as a student at this world-class institution and soak in the bustling atmosphere of thriving campus life.  Yale’s official campus tours are the perfect opportunity to find out what student life is like, what campus clubs are available and what special features each college has to offer.

Here are 4 key pieces of advice for taking a tour at Yale University:

• Get there early to ensure you have a spot on the tour!
• Dress appropriately for outdoor touring.
• Go to the restrooms in the Visitor Center or the Office of Undergraduate Admissions before your tour begins. The 60-75 minute tours don’t have pit stops!
• Speak to your student guides. They are super friendly and are happy to answer your questions about their experiences.

Tour as a prospective student

Take in the sights of Yale’s campus through the eyes of a residing student and see if you can imagine yourself becoming one! September through May, Monday through Saturday, you can tour the residential colleges, libraries, green spaces and historical landmarks all while chatting with your student guide.

The university also offers specialized science and engineering tours that are led by students studying in those fields. Find out about the exciting programs, projects and research currently taking place in their labs.

All the sessions for prospective Yalies start at the Office of Undergraduate Admissions (38 Hillhouse Ave). If you’re walking there from New Haven Green, stop at the Blue State Coffee on Wall Street, a student hot spot opposite Silliman College, for a drink to go!

Alongside tours, there are many admissions events that you can join throughout the year including visiting a class and requesting an on-campus interview. Check out the admissions website for schedules and registration.

Tour as a visitor

From the Visitor Center on one side of New Haven Green (149 Elm Street), you can take your spot on one of the campus tours.  The tour starts with a very informative and playful video that gives a broad overview of what this university has to offer its students.  This 60-minute walking tour covers central campus and shares plenty of interesting details about Yale’s 300-year history as well as what life is like through the eyes of the student guide. Take a look in one of the 14 residential colleges, the impressive record-breaking libraries and walk the paths previously taken by Yale’s many famous alumni.

One of the best parts of the walking tours is getting to hear from the student guides!  Take advantage of your time to ask them questions and hear about their classes, extra-curriculars and student life in New Haven. Wondering where to go next for a snack or directions around the downtown area? Your guide will be happy to help!

Tours during the current COVID pandemic (updated July 2022)

Yale University once again offers in person tours! COVID-19 vaccination is required for visitors 5 and older.

You can book a tour online to register for a campus tour.

Whether it’s in person or virtual, Yale University is an impressive place to visit. When you get the chance, I highly recommend enjoying the sights in person! Even if it’s not through an official tour, Yale’s campus is a beautiful place to walk through all year round.

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Please note: This post is for informational purposes only. Yale Tours are handled by Yale University and are subject to change according to the season. Please visit their website (listed above) if there is any questions.

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Yale resumes campus tours for prospective students.

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The Yale Visitor Center and the Yale Undergraduate Admissions Office this month resumed campus tours for prospective students nearly 19 months after they were halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

During the fall semester, the one-hour tours led by Yale undergraduates will focus on exterior campus spaces, including outside areas of Sterling Memorial Library and the Schwarzman Center, as well as Beinecke Plaza and Yale’s Old Campus.

And to ensure visitor safety, the visitor center has implemented protocols that adhere to public health guidelines. For instance, all visitors must register in advance and submit proof of vaccination, and participants must be masked. Prospective students are allowed to bring two vaccinated guests with them, and tours are capped at 20 visitors.

More than 800 visitors have participated in tours since they resumed on Oct. 4, said Nancy Franco, director of the Yale Visitor Center.

“ We are so happy to join the Office of Undergraduate Admissions in welcoming prospective students back to campus,” Franco said. “The small size of these outdoor tours means we can offer a curated, COVID-safe glimpse of campus life.”

While many have chosen to join the in-person campus tours, the visitor center and undergraduate admissions office will also continue to offer extensive virtual tours and remote programming for prospective students and guests.

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The Mead Visitor Center  is the front door of the University and welcomes its visitors from around the world. It is located at  149 Elm Street New Haven, CT 06511 , across the street from the New Haven Green.

Visitors can make reservations for guided tours led by Yale College undergraduates.

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Yale University Virtual Tours offer five different tour experiences you can choose from: Campus, Science, Engineering, Athletics, and Residential Colleges. Take one or all of these tours and experience Yale from wherever you are!

Take a virtual tour of Yale Campus .

If you will like to take a more formalized tour, please reserve your spot with the  Yale Visitor Center  tours.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Do i need to register in advance of a campus tour.

Yes, registration is required for our public campus tours. Register here for a Visitor Center campus tour .

All groups of 10 or more are required to schedule a private tour. To schedule a private tour for your group, please submit a tour request by emailing  [email protected] or calling 203-432-2300 .

Do you offer tours for prospective students?

The Yale Undergraduate Admissions office offers campus tours that are specifically designed for prospective students. Please visit the Admissions website for additional information .

Can groups arrange for campus tours?

Yes. The Visitor Center welcomes special group tours. There is a charge of $50 per guide and one guide is appropriate for up to 25 people. Groups of 10 or more are required to schedule a private tour. All private tour company groups, regardless of size, are required to schedule a private tour.  Please request your tour by calling 203-432-2300 .

What time are campus tours?

Visitor Center tours take place at 1:00 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Reservations are required .

The Visitor Center will be closed on Friday March 29, 2024 in observance of the Good Friday official Yale holiday.

Please see the Yale Undergraduate Admissions website for their schedule of tours .

How long does a campus tour take?

The Yale campus tour takes approximately one hour. 

Can accommodations be made for listening devices?

The Yale Visitor Center wants to make certain that individuals with special needs will be able to access all of the programs and tours scheduled through the center.

If you or a member of your group believe that they will require a specific accommodation, please notify the Visitor Center as soon as possible.

Accommodations such as assistive listening devices and interpreters may be arranged by contacting the office at 203-432-2302 . Please make this request at least two weeks in advance of the date needed.

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Yale students win global health innovation competition

Yigh team triumphs in emory competition.

Members of a team from the Yale Institute for Global Health (YIGH) pose with judges after winning the prestigious Emory Morningside Global Health Case Competition. From left: judge Phil Jacobs of Pendleton Consulting; judge Susan Maloney, MD, of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); William Zhang, MPH '24 (chronic disease epidemiology); Felicia Annan-Mills, MPH '25 (social and behavioral sciences); Lindsay Walker, MS '26; Noemi Guerra, BS '24; Teimur Kayani, MD ’24, MPH ’25 (chronic disease epidemiology); and judge Kashmira Date of Johnson & Johnson.

A team of students from the Yale Institute for Global Health (YIGH) won the annual Emory Morningside Global Health Case Competition, which took place March 21-23 on the Emory University campus in Atlanta. It was the second time in three years that a team representing YIGH has won this prestigious event, the largest of its kind in the world.

The competition featured 31 teams from around the world that were asked to come up with innovative, multidisciplinary solutions to real-world global health problems. This year, the case challenge was “Tackling India’s Twindemic: Accelerating integrated diabetes mellitus-tuberculosis care to end TB.”

“In winning the Emory case competition, this talented group of Yale students, drawn from across the university, demonstrated the critical, creative, and strategic thinking that is needed to address the world’s most pressing health challenges,” said Dr. Michael Cappello, MD , interim director of YIGH and professor and chair of the Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH). “The Yale Institute for Global Health is proud to have sponsored the team’s participation in Atlanta, which we hope will further inspire their continued efforts to make the world a better place.”

“This win makes two in the last three years, so it’s very significant,” added YIGH Deputy Director Michael Skonieczny . “We’re really excited and proud of what the team has achieved. The case competition is a great venue for students to work together. The value is that this is pertinent training for them. What excites me is the kind of experience and skills it builds.”

The winning YIGH team, which earned $6,000 for first prize, consisted of Lindsay Walker, MSN ’26, the team’s captain; William Zhang, MPH ’24 (chronic disease epidemiology); Felicia Annan-Mills, MPH ’25 (social and behavioral sciences); Noemi Guerra, BS ’24; and Teimur Kayani, MD ’24, MPH ’25 (chronic disease epidemiology).

In winning the Emory case competition, this talented group of Yale students, drawn from across the university, demonstrated the critical, creative, and strategic thinking that is needed to address the world’s most pressing health challenges. Dr. Michael Cappello, MD, YIGH Interim Director

Their solution – called Akanksha, a Sanskrit word meaning ambition – focused on screening for latent TB among diabetic populations in India and empowering community health workers.

Screening would be done by clinic health workers, using an antigen-specific TB skin test (TBST), which Walker said is more reliable than the PPD tuberculin skin test (TST), and less expensive and less prone to instability than interferon gamma release assay (IGRA) blood tests. (The Serum Institute of India has developed its own version of TBST, called Cy-TB.)

Walker said that during their research, the team was inspired by community health workers in India, called accredited social health activists (ASHAs). “These workers travel to remote places, visit people in their homes, and work with clinics to provide health screening and education,” she said. “They are historically underpaid, and recently there have been news stories highlighting their fight for increased wages and recognition as government employees.”

The Yale team chose to implement their project in the city of Guntur, in the state of Andhra Pradesh, because of its dedicated ASHA community, government clinics with comprehensive primary healthcare services, and expanding urban population. Their plan would provide mobile phones to ASHAs; reinforce workers’ training on a government patient data mobile app and an educational app for TB, train workers to read TBSTs, and involve them in TB treatment initiation and adherence.

In addition, “We supplemented ASHAs income to their requested level with our funding,” Walker said. “We created a detailed budget and cost-benefit analysis, and delivered our presentation in a concise and compelling manner.”

Kayani elaborated further: Once a patient tests positive for latent TB, ASHAs would deliver a once-weekly regimen for 12 weeks of isoniazid and rifapentine, a recently developed medication combination he said is far more patient-friendly than the traditional methods of once-daily isoniazid or rifampin for 3-4 months. ASHAs would then perform virtual observed direct therapy through the team-provided phones for medication adherence via Ni-kshay, a government-sponsored TB tracking and educational app.

From the Yale community, Walker cited the assistance of Jason Abaluck , professor of economics at the School of Management, in helping the team calculate and present a cost-benefit analysis; and Dr. Luke Davis, MD , YSPH associate professor of epidemiology (microbial diseases), who shared his knowledge of the developing TBST and its growing interest for use in high risk countries.

The Yale team advanced to the Emory competition by triumphing over four other teams on February 17 at the YIGH Global Health Competition. There, students had to pitch innovative solutions for managing non-communicable diseases amid the current humanitarian crisis in Sudan. Their winning solution, Cooling as a Solution (CaaS), centered around deploying “EcoFrost” coolers for transporting diabetes medication and “Frio Wallets” to help maintain the insulin temperature for up to four weeks. In both competitions, teamwork was paramount.

“One key element to the Yale team’s success, I believe, was our team cohesion and ability to leverage and complement our individual strengths,” Zhang said. “Both at the YIGH Global Health Competition and at Emory, our team adopted a lean and iterative process to ideation, held fast under time pressure, and was impressively nimble at thinking on-the-spot in Q&As. I’m proud that everyone challenged themselves, that we learned and had fun, and that we created lasting connections through this opportunity.”

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• Michael Cappello, MD Department Chair and Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases); Professor of Pediatrics (Infectious Disease) and Microbial Pathogenesis; Interim Director, Yale Institute for Global Health; Associate Director, MD-PhD Program
• Michael Skonieczny Deputy Director Yale Institute for Global Health