Clark University, a teaching and research institution, was founded in 1887 as the first independent, all-graduate university in the United States. It is one of only three New England universities, with Harvard and Yale, to be a founding member of the prestigious Association of American Universities, which includes the nations research universities.
Clark University is proud of its record of educational highlights. Its first president was G. Stanley Hall, founder of the American Psychological Association, who earned the first PhD in psychology in this country at Harvard. Clark played a prominent role in the development of psychology as a distinguished discipline in the United States. Sigmund Freud introduced psychoanalysis to the U.S. in his famous Clark Lectures, in 1909.
Famous researchers who have held Clark appointments: Albert A. Michelson, the first U.S. Nobel Prize winner in the sciences; Robert Goddard, father of the space age and the inventor of rocket technology.