Yale University to undergraduate education as the core. Such attention to similar universities in the United States is rare. Yale College (Yale College, Yale University undergraduate that the Department of) 70 professional major focus on general education, only very few undergraduate faculty focus on professional preparation, even the Yale University Engineering Department also encourages and requires students Exploration and study areas outside the engineering disciplines. Yale College about 20 percent of the students for science professionals, 35 percent for social science professionals, 45 percent of the students of the humanities arts professionals. Yale University professor require all undergraduate courses are taught. Yale University in each of the courses directory (Yale Program of Study, or commonly known as Blue Book) has more than 2,000 courses are available.

　　耶魯大學將本科教育視為大學的核心。這種重視在美國同類大學中實屬少見。耶魯學院（Yale College，即耶魯大學本科部）70個專業主要著力于通識教育，僅有極少的幾個本科院系著眼于專業性的準備，甚至于耶魯大學工程系也鼓勵并且要求學生探索和學習工程學科以外的領域。耶魯學院大約有20%的學生為自然科學專業，35%為社會科學專業，45%的學生則為人文藝術專業。耶魯大學要求所有的教授均講授本科課程。每年在耶魯大學的課程目錄中（Yale Program of Study，或通稱Blue Book）有超過2000門課程以供選擇。