Founded in 1636, it is a well-known private research institution of higher learning, a member of the Ivy League in the United States, and a university attended by many billionaires around the world, with world-class academic influence in many disciplines
Harvard University, or Harvard University for short, is a world-renowned private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and is a member of the prestigious Ivy League. It has 8 presidents of the United States of America, 133 Nobel Prize winners, 18 Fields Medal winners, and 13 Turing Award winners who have worked or studied here, and it has a high academic status and extensive influence in many fields such as literature, medicine, law, and business, and is recognized as one of the top higher education institutions in the world today.
Harvard is also the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States, which was founded in 1636 by the Massachusetts Colonial Legislature, and was originally named New Civic College, in honor of the Reverend John Harvard, who generously supported the college in its early years. The school was renamed Harvard College in March 1639. In 1780, Harvard College was officially renamed Harvard University. As of 2017, the university has more than 6,700 undergraduates and more than 15,250 master's and doctoral students.
As of 2014, Harvard University has 13 schools, namely Harvard University School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Business School, Harvard University School of Design, Dental Medicine, Harvard University Divinity School, School of Education, Harvard Law School, Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Academy of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University Graduate School, Harvard College, and Radcliffe School for Advanced Studies, with a total of 46 undergraduate majors and 134 graduate programs. Harvard College is responsible for the main body of undergraduate education.
Faculty
As of 2014, Harvard University has about 2,400 faculty members, including many Nobel Prize, Pulitzer, Pritzker Prize, and Fields Medal winners. The university has more than 300 academicians from the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), and the National Academy of Medicine (IOM), among which the academicians of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine rank first in the United States.
Advantageous disciplines
Harvard University has a world-class academic influence in a variety of disciplines, including life sciences, natural sciences, law, medicine, business, and social sciences.
Harvard is taught on a half-year/two-semester basis, with each academic year beginning in early September and ending in mid-May. Undergraduate students are required to complete four designated courses in each semester/half-year year and are required to maintain this enrolment rate in order to maintain their eligibility as full-time undergraduate students. Each major course offers a choice of foundation courses and advanced courses. Students who graduate in the top 4-5% are awarded the highest honour "Summa Laude", the remaining 15% are awarded the title of "Magna Laude" and the remaining 30% are awarded "Laude". Different scholarships and awards are awarded to different departments of the University. However, Harvard and many other American universities have been criticized for "rising grades", and many scholarships and honors have been raised, for example, the number of students at Harvard College who have earned Latin degrees has dropped from 90% in 2004 to 60% in 2005. However, there are also reports that students' motivation and fighting spirit have improved as a result.
