About Harvard
Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders in many disciplines who make a difference globally. The University, which is based in Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts, has an enrollment of over 20,000 degree candidates, including undergraduate, graduate, and professional students. Harvard has more than 360,000 alumni around the world.
Established
Harvard is the oldest institution of higher education in the United States, established in 1636 by vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Faculty
About 2,400 faculty members and more than 10,400 academic appointments in affiliated teaching hospitals
Students
- Harvard College: About 6,700
- Graduate and professional students: About 14,500
- Total: About 21,000
Motto
Veritas (Latin for “truth”)
Real Estate Holdings
5,083 acres
Library Collection
The Harvard Library the largest academic library in the world—includes 20.4 million volumes, 180,000 serial titles, an estimated 400 million manuscript items, 10 million photographs, 124 million archived web pages, and 5.4 terabytes of born-digital archives and manuscripts. Access to this rich collection is provided by nearly 800 library staff members who operate more than 70 separate library units.
Faculties, Schools, and an Institute
Harvard University is made up of 11 principal academic units – ten faculties and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The ten faculties oversee schools and divisions that offer courses and award academic degrees.
Undergraduate Cost And Financial Aid
Families with students on scholarship pay an average of $11,500 annually toward the cost of a Harvard education. More than 65 percent of Harvard College students receive scholarship aid, and the average grant this year is $46,000.
Since 2007, Harvard’s investment in financial aid has climbed by more than 70 percent, from $96.6 million to $166 million per year.
During the 2012-2013 academic year, students from families with incomes below $65,000, and with assets typical for that income level, will generally pay nothing toward the cost of attending Harvard College. Families with incomes between $65,000 and $150,000 will contribute from 0 to 10 percent of income, depending on individual circumstances. Significant financial aid also is available for families above those income ranges.
Harvard College launched a net price calculator into which applicants and their families can enter their financial data to estimate the net price they will be expected to pay for a year at Harvard. Please use the calculator to estimate the net cost of attendance.
The total 2015-2016 cost of attending Harvard College without financial aid is $45,278 for tuition and $60,659 for tuition, room, board and fees combined.
University Professors
The title of University Professor was created in 1935 to honor individuals whose groundbreaking work crosses the boundaries of multiple disciplines, allowing them to pursue research at any of Harvard’s Schools. View the list of University Professors.
Harvard University President
The President of Harvard University is the chief administrator of the university and the ex officio chairman of the Harvard Corporation.[1] Each is appointed by and is responsible to the other members of that body, who delegate to him or her the day-to-day running of the university. The current incumbent is Drew Gilpin Faust, formerly the dean of Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced
Harvard is a famously decentralized university, noted for the "every tub on its own bottom" independence of its various constituent faculties. They set their own academic standards and manage their own budgets. The president, however, plays an important part in university-wide planning and strategy. Each names a faculty's dean (and, since the foundation of the office in 1994, the university's provost), and grants tenure to recommended professors; however, he or she is expected to make such decisions after extensive consultation with faculty members.
Traditionally, as the leader of one of the United States' most prominent universities, Harvard presidents have influenced educational practices nationwide. Charles W. Eliot, for example, originated America's familiar system of a smorgasbord of elective courses available to each student James B. Conant worked to introduce standardized testing; Derek Bok and Neil L. Rudenstine argued for the continued importance of diversity in higher education.
Recently, however, the job has become increasingly administrative, especially as the president has become increasingly responsible for conducting fund-raising campaigns. Some have criticized this trend to the extent it has prevented the president from focusing on substantive issues in higher education.
Each president is a qualified academic professor in some department of the university and will, on occasion, teach courses.
HarvardX
HarvardX is a University-wide strategic initiative, overseen by the Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning (PVAL), to enable faculty to build and create open online learning experiences (free, low-touch, high-touch) for residential and online use, and to enable groundbreaking research in online pedagogies. To date, HarvardX has engaged more than 90 faculty across 10 schools, producing more than 60 open online courses with 3 million global registrants. On-campus, HarvardX has supported nearly 20 blended courses, convened 225 individuals (faculty, undergraduates, graduates, technologies) in developing content, teaching, and conducting research, and built new educational tools and technologies. A leader in advancing the science of learning, HarvardX has produced more than 95 related research publications and produced two major benchmark reports on MOOC learner demographics and behavior.
Presidents of Harvard
Nathaniel Eaton ("schoolmaster," 1637–1639)
Henry Dunster (1640–1654)
Charles Chauncy (1654–1672)
Leonard Hoar (1672–1675)
Urian Oakes (acting president, 1675–1680; president, 1680–1681)
John Rogers (1682–1684)
Increase Mather (acting president, 1685–1686; rector, 1686–1692; president, 1692–1701)
Samuel Willard (acting president, 1701–1707)
John Leverett (1708–1724)
Benjamin Wadsworth (1725–1737)
Edward Holyoke (1737–1769)
Samuel Locke (1770–1773)
Samuel Langdon (1774–1780)
Joseph Willard (1781–1804)
Eliphalet Pearson (acting president, 1804–1806)
Samuel Webber (1806–1810)
John Thornton Kirkland (1810–1828)
Josiah Quincy (1829–1845)
Edward Everett (1846–1849)
Jared Sparks (1849–1853)
James Walker (1853–1860)
Cornelius Conway Felton (1860–1862)
Thomas Hill (1862–1868)
Charles William Eliot (1869–1909)
Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1909–1933)
James Bryant Conant (1933–1953)
Nathan Marsh Pusey (1953–1971)
Derek Curtis Bok (1971–1991)
Neil L. Rudenstine (1991–2001)
Lawrence H. Summers (July 1, 2001 – June 30, 2006)
Derek Curtis Bok (July 1, 2006 – June 30, 2007)
Drew Gilpin Faust (July 1, 2007–present)
Courses Offered
- Accounting and Management (Business)
- African Studies (FAS)
- African and African American Studies (FAS)
- American Studies (FAS)
- Anthropology (FAS)
- Applied Mathematics (FAS)
- Architecture (Design)
- Architecture, Landscape, and Urban Planning (Design)
- Arts in Education (Education)
- Astronomy (FAS)
- Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology (Med School)
- Biological Sciences in Dental Medicine (GSAS)
- Biological Sciences in Public Health (GSAS)
- Biomedical Sciences and Engineering (Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences)
- Biophysics (FAS)
- Biostatistics (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
- Business Economics (Business)
- Business, Government and the International Economy (Business)
- Byzantine Studies (GSAS)
- Cell Biology (Med School)
- Chemical Physics (GSAS)
- Chemistry and Chemical Biology (FAS)
- Classics (FAS)
- Comparative Literature (GSAS)
- Computer Science (Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences)
- Core Program (FAS)
- Division of Continuing Education (Continuing Ed)
- Division of Medical Sciences (FAS)
- Earth and Planetary Sciences (FAS)
- East Asian Languages and Civilizations (FAS)
- Economics (FAS)
- Education Policy and Management (Education)
- Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences)
- Engineering Sciences (Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences)
- English and American Literature and Language (FAS)
- Entrepreneurial Management (Business)
- Environment, Harvard University Center for
- Environmental Health (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
- Environmental Science and Public Policy (FAS)
- Environmental Sciences and Engineering (Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences)
- Epidemiology (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
- Expository Writing Program (FAS)
- Finance (Business)
- Folklore and Mythology (FAS)
- Forestry (FAS)
- Freshman Seminar Program (FAS)
- General Management (Business)
- Genetics (Med School)
- Genetics and Complex Diseases (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
- Germanic Languages and Literatures (FAS)
- Government (FAS)
- Harvard University Native American Program
- Health Care Policy (Med School)
- Health Policy and Management (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
- Health Policy, PhD Program in (FAS)
- Higher Education (Education)
- History and East Asian Languages (FAS)
- History and Literature (FAS)
- History (FAS)
- History of Art and Architecture (FAS)
- History of Science (FAS)
- Human Development and Psychology (Education)
- Immunology and Infectious Diseases (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
- Inner Asian and Altaic Studies (FAS)
- International Development (Government)
- International Education Policy (Education)
- Landscape Architecture (Design)
- Language and Literacy (Education)
- Learning and Teaching (Education)
- Linguistics (FAS)
- Literature (FAS)
- Marketing (Business)
- Mathematics (FAS)
- Medieval Studies Committee (FAS)
- Microbiology and Molecular Genetics (Med School)
- Middle Eastern Studies (GSAS)
- Mind, Brain, and Behavior (FAS)
- Mind, Brain, and Education (Education)
- Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative
- Molecular and Cellular Biology (FAS)
- Music (FAS)
- Negotiation, Organizations, and Markets (Business)
- Neurobiology (Med School)
- Nutrition (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
- Oral Medicine, Infection, and Immunity, Department of (Dental)
- Organismic and Evolutionary Biology (FAS)
- Organizational Behavior (Business)
- Pathology (Med School)
- Pediatric Dentistry (Dental)
- Philosophy (FAS)
- Physics (FAS)
- Political Economy and Government (Government)
- Population and International Health (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
- Programs in Professional Education (Education)
- Psychology (FAS)
- Public Administration in International Development (Government)
- Public Administration (Mid-Career Master) (Government)
- Public Administration (Two-Year Program) (Government)
- Public Policy (GSAS)
- Public Policy (Government)
- Public Policy and Urban Planning (Government)
- Regional Studies: East Asia (FAS)
- Regional Studies: Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia (FAS)
- Religion, Committee on the Study of (FAS)
- Risk and Prevention (Education)
- Romance Languages and Literatures (FAS)
- Sanskrit (FAS)
- School Leadership (Education)
- Slavic Languages and Literatures (FAS)
- Social and Behavioral Sciences (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
- Social Medicine, Division of (Med School)
- Social Policy (GSAS)
- Social Policy (Government)
- Social Studies (FAS)
- Sociology (FAS)
- Statistics (FAS)
- Strategy (Business)
- Teacher Education Program (Education)
- Technology in Education (Education)
- Technology and Operations Management (Business)
- Urban Planning and Design (Design)
- Visual and Environmental Studies (FAS)
- Women, Gender, and Sexuality (FAS)
- Women's Studies in Religion (Divinity)
About Harvard
Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders in many disciplines who make a difference globally. The University, which is based in Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts, has an enrollment of over 20,000 degree candidates, including undergraduate, graduate, and professional students. Harvard has more than 360,000 alumni around the world.
Established
Harvard is the oldest institution of higher education in the United States, established in 1636 by vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Faculty
About 2,400 faculty members and more than 10,400 academic appointments in affiliated teaching hospitals
Students
- Harvard College: About 6,700
- Graduate and professional students: About 14,500
- Total: About 21,000
Motto
Veritas (Latin for “truth”)
Real Estate Holdings
5,083 acres
Library Collection
The Harvard Library the largest academic library in the world—includes 20.4 million volumes, 180,000 serial titles, an estimated 400 million manuscript items, 10 million photographs, 124 million archived web pages, and 5.4 terabytes of born-digital archives and manuscripts. Access to this rich collection is provided by nearly 800 library staff members who operate more than 70 separate library units.
Faculties, Schools, and an Institute
Harvard University is made up of 11 principal academic units – ten faculties and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The ten faculties oversee schools and divisions that offer courses and award academic degrees.
Undergraduate Cost And Financial Aid
Families with students on scholarship pay an average of $11,500 annually toward the cost of a Harvard education. More than 65 percent of Harvard College students receive scholarship aid, and the average grant this year is $46,000.
Since 2007, Harvard’s investment in financial aid has climbed by more than 70 percent, from $96.6 million to $166 million per year.
During the 2012-2013 academic year, students from families with incomes below $65,000, and with assets typical for that income level, will generally pay nothing toward the cost of attending Harvard College. Families with incomes between $65,000 and $150,000 will contribute from 0 to 10 percent of income, depending on individual circumstances. Significant financial aid also is available for families above those income ranges.
Harvard College launched a net price calculator into which applicants and their families can enter their financial data to estimate the net price they will be expected to pay for a year at Harvard. Please use the calculator to estimate the net cost of attendance.
The total 2015-2016 cost of attending Harvard College without financial aid is $45,278 for tuition and $60,659 for tuition, room, board and fees combined.
University Professors
The title of University Professor was created in 1935 to honor individuals whose groundbreaking work crosses the boundaries of multiple disciplines, allowing them to pursue research at any of Harvard’s Schools. View the list of University Professors.
Harvard University President
The President of Harvard University is the chief administrator of the university and the ex officio chairman of the Harvard Corporation.[1] Each is appointed by and is responsible to the other members of that body, who delegate to him or her the day-to-day running of the university. The current incumbent is Drew Gilpin Faust, formerly the dean of Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced
Harvard is a famously decentralized university, noted for the "every tub on its own bottom" independence of its various constituent faculties. They set their own academic standards and manage their own budgets. The president, however, plays an important part in university-wide planning and strategy. Each names a faculty's dean (and, since the foundation of the office in 1994, the university's provost), and grants tenure to recommended professors; however, he or she is expected to make such decisions after extensive consultation with faculty members.
Traditionally, as the leader of one of the United States' most prominent universities, Harvard presidents have influenced educational practices nationwide. Charles W. Eliot, for example, originated America's familiar system of a smorgasbord of elective courses available to each student James B. Conant worked to introduce standardized testing; Derek Bok and Neil L. Rudenstine argued for the continued importance of diversity in higher education.
Recently, however, the job has become increasingly administrative, especially as the president has become increasingly responsible for conducting fund-raising campaigns. Some have criticized this trend to the extent it has prevented the president from focusing on substantive issues in higher education.
Each president is a qualified academic professor in some department of the university and will, on occasion, teach courses.
HarvardX
HarvardX is a University-wide strategic initiative, overseen by the Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning (PVAL), to enable faculty to build and create open online learning experiences (free, low-touch, high-touch) for residential and online use, and to enable groundbreaking research in online pedagogies. To date, HarvardX has engaged more than 90 faculty across 10 schools, producing more than 60 open online courses with 3 million global registrants. On-campus, HarvardX has supported nearly 20 blended courses, convened 225 individuals (faculty, undergraduates, graduates, technologies) in developing content, teaching, and conducting research, and built new educational tools and technologies. A leader in advancing the science of learning, HarvardX has produced more than 95 related research publications and produced two major benchmark reports on MOOC learner demographics and behavior.
Presidents of Harvard
Nathaniel Eaton ("schoolmaster," 1637–1639)
Henry Dunster (1640–1654)
Charles Chauncy (1654–1672)
Leonard Hoar (1672–1675)
Urian Oakes (acting president, 1675–1680; president, 1680–1681)
John Rogers (1682–1684)
Increase Mather (acting president, 1685–1686; rector, 1686–1692; president, 1692–1701)
Samuel Willard (acting president, 1701–1707)
John Leverett (1708–1724)
Benjamin Wadsworth (1725–1737)
Edward Holyoke (1737–1769)
Samuel Locke (1770–1773)
Samuel Langdon (1774–1780)
Joseph Willard (1781–1804)
Eliphalet Pearson (acting president, 1804–1806)
Samuel Webber (1806–1810)
John Thornton Kirkland (1810–1828)
Josiah Quincy (1829–1845)
Edward Everett (1846–1849)
Jared Sparks (1849–1853)
James Walker (1853–1860)
Cornelius Conway Felton (1860–1862)
Thomas Hill (1862–1868)
Charles William Eliot (1869–1909)
Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1909–1933)
James Bryant Conant (1933–1953)
Nathan Marsh Pusey (1953–1971)
Derek Curtis Bok (1971–1991)
Neil L. Rudenstine (1991–2001)
Lawrence H. Summers (July 1, 2001 – June 30, 2006)
Derek Curtis Bok (July 1, 2006 – June 30, 2007)
Drew Gilpin Faust (July 1, 2007–present)
Courses Offered
- Accounting and Management (Business)
- African Studies (FAS)
- African and African American Studies (FAS)
- American Studies (FAS)
- Anthropology (FAS)
- Applied Mathematics (FAS)
- Architecture (Design)
- Architecture, Landscape, and Urban Planning (Design)
- Arts in Education (Education)
- Astronomy (FAS)
- Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology (Med School)
- Biological Sciences in Dental Medicine (GSAS)
- Biological Sciences in Public Health (GSAS)
- Biomedical Sciences and Engineering (Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences)
- Biophysics (FAS)
- Biostatistics (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
- Business Economics (Business)
- Business, Government and the International Economy (Business)
- Byzantine Studies (GSAS)
- Cell Biology (Med School)
- Chemical Physics (GSAS)
- Chemistry and Chemical Biology (FAS)
- Classics (FAS)
- Comparative Literature (GSAS)
- Computer Science (Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences)
- Core Program (FAS)
- Division of Continuing Education (Continuing Ed)
- Division of Medical Sciences (FAS)
- Earth and Planetary Sciences (FAS)
- East Asian Languages and Civilizations (FAS)
- Economics (FAS)
- Education Policy and Management (Education)
- Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences)
- Engineering Sciences (Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences)
- English and American Literature and Language (FAS)
- Entrepreneurial Management (Business)
- Environment, Harvard University Center for
- Environmental Health (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
- Environmental Science and Public Policy (FAS)
- Environmental Sciences and Engineering (Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences)
- Epidemiology (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
- Expository Writing Program (FAS)
- Finance (Business)
- Folklore and Mythology (FAS)
- Forestry (FAS)
- Freshman Seminar Program (FAS)
- General Management (Business)
- Genetics (Med School)
- Genetics and Complex Diseases (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
- Germanic Languages and Literatures (FAS)
- Government (FAS)
- Harvard University Native American Program
- Health Care Policy (Med School)
- Health Policy and Management (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
- Health Policy, PhD Program in (FAS)
- Higher Education (Education)
- History and East Asian Languages (FAS)
- History and Literature (FAS)
- History (FAS)
- History of Art and Architecture (FAS)
- History of Science (FAS)
- Human Development and Psychology (Education)
- Immunology and Infectious Diseases (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
- Inner Asian and Altaic Studies (FAS)
- International Development (Government)
- International Education Policy (Education)
- Landscape Architecture (Design)
- Language and Literacy (Education)
- Learning and Teaching (Education)
- Linguistics (FAS)
- Literature (FAS)
- Marketing (Business)
- Mathematics (FAS)
- Medieval Studies Committee (FAS)
- Microbiology and Molecular Genetics (Med School)
- Middle Eastern Studies (GSAS)
- Mind, Brain, and Behavior (FAS)
- Mind, Brain, and Education (Education)
- Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative
- Molecular and Cellular Biology (FAS)
- Music (FAS)
- Negotiation, Organizations, and Markets (Business)
- Neurobiology (Med School)
- Nutrition (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
- Oral Medicine, Infection, and Immunity, Department of (Dental)
- Organismic and Evolutionary Biology (FAS)
- Organizational Behavior (Business)
- Pathology (Med School)
- Pediatric Dentistry (Dental)
- Philosophy (FAS)
- Physics (FAS)
- Political Economy and Government (Government)
- Population and International Health (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
- Programs in Professional Education (Education)
- Psychology (FAS)
- Public Administration in International Development (Government)
- Public Administration (Mid-Career Master) (Government)
- Public Administration (Two-Year Program) (Government)
- Public Policy (GSAS)
- Public Policy (Government)
- Public Policy and Urban Planning (Government)
- Regional Studies: East Asia (FAS)
- Regional Studies: Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia (FAS)
- Religion, Committee on the Study of (FAS)
- Risk and Prevention (Education)
- Romance Languages and Literatures (FAS)
- Sanskrit (FAS)
- School Leadership (Education)
- Slavic Languages and Literatures (FAS)
- Social and Behavioral Sciences (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
- Social Medicine, Division of (Med School)
- Social Policy (GSAS)
- Social Policy (Government)
- Social Studies (FAS)
- Sociology (FAS)
- Statistics (FAS)
- Strategy (Business)
- Teacher Education Program (Education)
- Technology in Education (Education)
- Technology and Operations Management (Business)
- Urban Planning and Design (Design)
- Visual and Environmental Studies (FAS)
- Women, Gender, and Sexuality (FAS)
- Women's Studies in Religion (Divinity)
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