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Pierson College is a residential college at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Opened in 1933, it is named for Abraham Pierson, a founder and the first rector of the Collegiate School, the college later known as Yale. With just under 500 undergraduate members, Pierson is the largest of Yale's residential colleges by number of ...
Pierson College (PC) is a residential college founded in 1933 at Yale University. The College takes its name from Abraham Pierson (1646-1707), one of the founders of the Collegiate School, which later became Yale University – a statue of Abraham Pierson stands on Yale’s Old Campus.
The campuses of Davenport College (above) and Pierson College (below), Yale's two Georgian Revival colleges. Yale University has a system of fourteen residential colleges with which all Yale undergraduate students and many faculty are affiliated.
Pierson was founded and built in 1933, and was extensively renovated in 2004. Today, it is one of the largest residential college at Yale with approximately 500 students. Pierson’s spacious courtyard, lined with red bricks and white columns, can take on many different functions, including makeshift sports arena, dance floor, and tanning station.
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Modern, leerlinggericht en goed onderwijs. Daar staat het ds. Pierson College voor. Leerlingen kunnen bij ons een vmbo-t, havo of een atheneumopleiding volgen. Met ruim 1600 leerlingen zijn we een grote school, maar toch een school waar je gezien en gekend wordt. Onze school heeft een open christelijk karakter.
Abraham Pierson (1646 – March 5, 1707) was an American Congregational minister who served as the first rector, from 1701 to 1707, and one of the founders of the Collegiate School — which later became Yale University.
