在2006英国泰晤士报专上教育增刊的世界大学排名,耶鲁大学在总平均排名世界第四。美国Princeton Review在2006把耶鲁大学在全美最难进的大学里排第二。耶鲁以人文、艺术、历史、及法律最有名;耶鲁的理工科在美国一流名校里算是比较弱的。
In 2006 the British Times higher education supplement in the world university rankings, Yale University in the overall average ranking fourth in the world. U.S. Princeton Review in 2006 at Yale University in the United States into the most difficult of the University ranked second. Yale to the humanities, arts, history, law and the most famous; Yale's first-class science and engineering schools in the United States, is relatively weak.