Thank you for your interest in Yale University as a possible location for your production.

Yale University invites production companies to explore its diverse array of interior and exterior filming locations.  This site presents some of the University's filming locations as well as other important information such as policies, guidelines and information about filming in New Haven and the State of Connecticut.

Yale's Campus Includes a Wide Range of
Architecture and Landscapes Old and New

Styles range from New England Colonial to High Victorian Gothic, from Georgian to contemporary.

Yale's buildings, towers, lawns, courtyards, walkways, gates, and arches, on a central campus that covers 310 acres, comprise what one architecture critic has called "the most beautiful urban campus in America." More than 260 buildings include contributions from distinguished architects of every period in Yale's history. The University also maintains over 2,600 acres of athletic fields and natural preserves.

Yale Film History

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants II
Mona Lisa Smile
In Bloom aka The Life Before Her Eyes
Jeopardy! College Championship
Everybody’s Fine
Sherman’s Way
Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (Kank) A Bollywood Feature Film

Television and Commercial Photography

Yale will consider requests to shoot for television, or commercial photography, provided that all requirements of the Film and Photography Guidelines are met and the filming does not interfere with the educational mission of the University.  Production companies must work directly with the Licensing Office, a division of the Office of the Secretary, and their work is subject to fees.