# Yale University **Entity class:** Research university ## Definition **Yale University** is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. [[wiki/John Templeton|John Templeton]] studied economics there before his Rhodes Scholarship at Balliol College, making Yale the American educational node immediately preceding the Oxford branch of his institutional genealogy. ## Relationships - **Templeton route:** Yale → [[wiki/Rhodes Scholarship|Rhodes Scholarship]] → [[wiki/Balliol College|Balliol College]] → [[wiki/John Templeton|John Templeton]] → [[wiki/John Templeton Foundation|Templeton philanthropic complex]]. - **British-influence route:** the Yale link is educational biography, not evidence of British control over Yale. - **routes:** [[collections/War With Empire|War With Empire]] and [[wiki/ICE|ICE disambiguation]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [John Templeton Foundation — Sir John Templeton](https://www.templeton.org/about/sir-john-templeton) - [Yale — About Yale](https://www.yale.edu/about-yale)