Yale University | New England By The Numbers

16 Supreme Court justices who attended Yale 5 U.S. presidents who graduated from Yale: William Howard Taft, Gerald Ford, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush 16 bulldogs that have served as Handsome Dan over the years since the mascot was adopted in 1889 417 books donated by Elihu Yale to help expand the college library in 1718 12,000,000 volumes now in Yale’s 22 libraries 12 books published about the Yale-Harvard football rivalry 300 estimated number of songs written by Cole Porter while studying at Yale (1909-13) 1,052 students once enrolled in professor Peter Salovey’s Psychology and Law class, called “the most popular course in Yale College history” $15.2 billion size of Yale’s endowment, second only to Harvard’s $25.9 billion