The Levin years by the numbers
Here is a look at some of the figures that define Richard C. Levin’s term as president of Yale, 1993-2013.
18% | International students university-wide, up from 12% in 1993. |
118 | Nations represented by international students, up from 86 in Levin’s inaugural year. |
$120 million | Financial aid budget in 2012, nearly quintupled from $24.19 million in 1993. |
$0 | Required parental contribution from Yale College students whose families earn less than $65,000. |
80% | First-time homeowners among the more than 1,000 staff and faculty who have taken advantage of the Yale Homebuyer Program. (Half are minority group members.) |
250,000 | Hours that Presidential Public Service Fellows have logged in service to municipal and non-profit agencies in New Haven. The program was established by Levin in 1994. |
$345 million | National Institutes of Health funding supporting research at the School of Medicine, up from $138 million in 1993. |
15 cents | Cost of the Yale-patented AIDS drug Zerit for patients in Africa, thanks to the University’s 2001 decision to reduce the medication’s price. |
50 | For-credit language courses at Yale, plus non-credit courses in an additional 30–35 languages. |
$761 million | Investment in renovation of Yale’s 12 residential colleges. |
20 | Number of trips Levin has made to China since 2001. |
200-plus | Participants in the Yale World Fellows program, representing 79 countries, since its inception in 2002. |
0 | Days of work stoppage during latest two contract negotiations with Yale’s unions. |
$8.1 million | Yale’s annual voluntary payment to the City of New Haven, up from $4.2 million in 2005. Yale is now the city’s fifth-largest taxpayer. |
500,000 | Square feet of laboratory space on West Campus’ 136 acres. |
42 | Open Yale Courses available worldwide; the site has had millions of visitors from 228 countries. |
3,500 | Alumni and friends who volunteered at nearly 250 sites in 40 states and 20 countries during the 2012 Global Day of Service, a program established in 2008. |
800 | Approximate number of additional students who can be enrolled at Yale College when the two new residential colleges are built. |
80 | New endowed funds established at School of Architecture through efforts by Levin and Dean Robert A.M. Stern; more than twice the number established in the preceding century. |
$100,000 | Yearly savings from School of Medicine’s shift to an entirely electronic curriculum by providing every student with an iPad. |
75.8% | Students campus-wide who receive financial aid from Yale. |
$3.881 billion | Total raised in the five-year Yale Tomorrow campaign, which had a goal of $3.5 billion. |
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