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This article is devoted to the colleges within the Yale University. Thus, the system of colleges is presented by the 12 residential colleges. The system of colleges was instituted by the graduate of the Yale University Edward. E. Harkness.

Nowadays, each college has the following arrangement Dean, Master, Affiliated faculty, Resident Fellows. Each college is featured with the distinctive architecture. College provides its own seminars and social events. The students of each college are engaged with the different college and overseas programs, as all the colleges have great connections with the other educational institutions both native and foreign ones.

The following residential colleges are presented within the structure of the Yale University: Berkeley College, Branford College, Calhoun College, Davenport College, Ezra Stiles College, Jonathan Edwards College, Morse College, Pierson College, Saybrook College, Silliman College, Timothy Dwight College, Trumbull College. The names of colleges are given to them in the honor of the alumni studied in the Yale University, or important figures of the history on Yale University.

In 1998, the era of the renovations has become to all the colleges within the Yale University, and in the majority of buildings, it has been already completed. Nowadays, all the colleges are provided with all the modern facilities and conveniences.