Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University (officially The President and Fellows of Harvard College) Harvard University was established in 1636. Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the first corporation chartered in the United States and oldest institution of higher learning in the United States.  Harvard University has around 20,000 students across the College and graduate schools located in Cambridge and Boston. When people refer to Harvard students, often they mean the subset of roughly 6,400 students who attend Harvard College.

The university comprises ten separate academic units with campuses throughout the Boston metropolitan area. Harvard’s 210-acre (85 ha) main campus is centered on Harvard Yard in Cambridge, approximately 3.4 miles (5.5 km) northwest of downtown Boston. The business school and athletics facilities like Harvard Stadium are located across the Charles River in Allston and the medical, dental, and public health schools are located in Longwood.

The college was named after its first benefactor, John Harvard. Although it was never formally affiliated with a church, the college primarily trained Congregationalist and Unitarian clergy. Harvard’s curriculum and students became increasingly secular throughout the eighteenth century and by the nineteenth century had emerged as the central cultural establishment among Boston elites.

Harvard University Rankings in 2010

• BEST 2010 MEDICAL SCHOOLS RANKING IN INTERNAL MEDICINE
• BEST UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY RANKING
• BEST MEDICAL SCHOOLS – PRIMARY CARE RANKINGS
• MEDICAL SCHOOL RANKINGS
• TOP 100 PRIVATE COLLEGES RANKING
• 2010 TOP 100 COLLEGES
• WORLD’S BEST UNIVERSITY RANKINGS
• IVY LEAGUE UNIVERSITIES / SCHOOLS RANKING
• BEST BUSINESS SCHOOLS (MBA PROGRAM) RANKING IN 2010
• BIO CHEMICAL / BIOENGINEERING GRADUATE SCHOOL RANKING
• TOP CHEMISTRY COLLEGE RANKING IN 2010
• ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING GRADUATE SCHOOL RANKINGS
• BEST MARKETING GRADUATE SCHOOL RANKINGS IN 2010

Harvard University Rankings in 2011

• BEST BUSINESS GRADUATE SCHOOL RANKING IN 2011
• TOP 100 LAW SCHOOLS IN 2011
• TOP 100 GRADUATE COMPUTER ENGINEERING SCHOOL RANKINGS IN 2011
• MATERIALS GRADUATE SCHOOL RANKINGS IN 2011
• Political Science Graduate College Rankings In 2011
• WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS IN 2011-2012
• 2011-2012 TOP 200 COLLEGES IN UNITED STATES
•  TOP ENGINEERING GRADUATE SCHOOLS RANKING IN 2011-2012
• TOP 2011 BUSINESS GRADUATE SCHOOL RANKINGS
• BEST LAW SCHOOL RANKING FOR HIRING BY THE NATION’S LARGEST LAW FIRMS

Harvard University Rankings in 2012

Schools of Harvard University

Harvard University Tuition Information

• Tuition — $33,696
• Total including room, board, student service fees — $48,868

Hardvard University News

• Vivid details - Thu, 17 May 2012
  A landmark effort to sequence the genome of the butterfly Heliconius melpomene has revealed that it shares genes that control color patterns with two species that closely mimic its appearance — Heliconius timareta and Heliconius elevatus — suggesting that all three exchange genes as a result of occasional hybridization.

• A maestro and a wordsmith - Thu, 17 May 2012
  Senior Matt Aucoin immersed himself in Harvard’s rich worlds of poetry and music, with a degree in English, a passion for writing and composing, and a future destined for The New Yorker, or the conductor’s chair, or both.

• ‘Voice of public service at Harvard’ - Thu, 17 May 2012
  Calling the Kennedy School "the voice of public service at Harvard," University President Drew Faust welcomed alumni from across seven decades Friday to a special 75th anniversary conference.

• Astral feast - Wed, 16 May 2012
  Supermassive black holes snack infrequently, making the recent discovery of a black hole in the act of feeding all the more interesting to astronomers.

• A costly divide in education - Wed, 16 May 2012
  As part of the John Harvard Book Celebration, Harvard Graduate School of Education Dean Kathleen McCartney spoke about the most effective ways to close the achievement gap between low-income students and their middle and higher-income peers.

• Faculty honored with PBK Teaching Prizes - Wed, 16 May 2012
  The Phi Beta Kappa Alpha Iota Chapter of Massachusetts announced three recipients of the Phi Beta Kappa Prize in Excellence in Teaching for this academic year.

• Hoffman named Trudeau Scholar - Wed, 16 May 2012
  Steven Hoffman, a doctoral candidate in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences’ Health Policy program, has been awarded the prestigious 2012 Trudeau Scholarship.

• Biostatistics honors Begg - Wed, 16 May 2012
  Harvard’s Department of Biostatistics announced that Melissa D. Begg will be the first recipient of the newly established Lagakos Distinguished Alumni Award.

• Chef to receive Healthy Cup Award - Tue, 15 May 2012
  Jamie Oliver, the internationally acclaimed chef of “Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution,” will be honored by the Harvard School of Public Health for his substantial achievements in working to end the childhood obesity epidemic.

• Counter knighted by King of Sweden - Tue, 15 May 2012
  Noted neuroscience professor S. Allen Counter was appointed Knight of the Order of the Polar Star First Class by Carl XVI Gustaf, king of Sweden.