Harvard University, established in 1636, is the oldest and one of the most famous institutions in the United States. A statue of John Harvard, College’s first patron, stands in front of University Hall in Harvard Yard and is perhaps the University’s best-known landmark. This Ivy League university carries its legacy from over 375 years not only in the United States but globally as well. Harvard currently has 12 degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The University has grown from nine students with a single master in the mid-1600s to an enrollment of more than 20,000-degree candidates including undergraduate, graduate, and professional students.

With a campus size of 5457 acres, Harvard is based in Massachusetts, Cambridge. Organized around ancient city greens, tree-lined squares, and also the sedgy banks of the Charles River, Cambridge is one among metropolitan Boston’s very important urban centers. Harvard is at the center of Cambridge, giving individuals immediate access to the city’s dense mixture of retailers, restaurants, and diversion. Cambridge is an element of Boston’s comprehensive public transit. With buses, cabs, and a subway stop right in the middle of Harvard sq., you’ll simply get anyplace you would like to travel. Downtown Beantown is simply a 12-minute ride from the field.

Harvard has a diverse student population from over 50 states and 80 countries and currently more than 36,000 students are studying at Harvard out of which 6,699 are enrolled in Harvard College, 13,120 as graduate and professional students, and 16,193 in Harvard Extension School. Harvard has the oldest academic library in the world consisting of 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. Approximately 70 percent of the students receive some sort of financial aid at Harvard, and about 60 percent receive need-based scholarships and pay an average of $12,000 per year.

Harvard has an alumni base of more than 2.79 lakh in the US and 59,000 spread across 202 countries. It has about 2,400 world-class faculty members and more than 10,400 academic appointments in affiliated teaching hospitals. Harvard has 48 Nobel Laureates, 32 heads of state, 48 Pulitzer Prize winners who have been affiliated as students, faculty, or researchers.