From Today's Brown Daily Herald

Colleges & Universities Yale University
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<p>Yale has by far the best exchange program with Beida, and was closely involved in China for over 130 years before any other American university was:</p>

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<p>Most likely Yung Wing went to Yale because it was the first true American university, i.e., founding the first arts & sciences graduate school, the first science department, and the first scientific journal as well as awarding the first Ph.D. degree in America, in 1861.</p>