Harvard University

Harvard University is one of the most prestigious universities in the world. It is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was established on September 8, 1636 as Harvard College and it was the first university in the British colonies in North America. 

 

Harvard is constantly on the first place in the Academic Ranking of World Universities, also known as Shanghai Ranking. The motto of the university is Veritas which in English means Truth.






Harvard was originally established by the Massachusetts legislature and soon thereafter named for John Harvard who was its first benefactor.

 
 John Harvard statue

The current President of Harvard is Drew Gilpin Faust.

Now it's time for some numbers. Harvard's $37.6 billion financial endowment is the largest of any academic institution. The academic staff consists of 4,671 people. There were 21,000 student of Harvard so far,among which there are 6700 undergraduates and 14500 postgraduates.


   
The oldest building on the campus

The university is organized into eleven separate academic units, which are ten faculties and the Radcliffe Institute for Advance Study and the campuses are organized throughout the Boston metropolitan area. It is the 85 ha of land.The main campus is centered on Harvard Yard in Cambridge, approximately 5 km nortwest of Boston. There are also athletic facilities, including Harvard Stadium, the bussiness school, medical, dental and public health schools.

Harvard Yard

  Harvard Stadium

The nominal cost of attendance to Harvard is high but it offers generous financial aid packages.

Harvard operates several arts, cultural, and scientific museums, alongside the Harvard Library, which is the world's largest academic and private library system, comprising 79 individual libraries with over 18 million volumes.


Among the Harvard postgraduates there are Nobel laureates, e.g. T.S. Eliot, Theodore Roosevelt, Barack Obama; Pulitzer Prize winners, e.g. Henry Adams, Henry James, John F. Kennedy and many other noble people, like for example George Bush.

Task: Choose a university at which you would like to study and provide the arguments why you've chosen that one.