Harvard University

Harvard University is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636, it is the oldest institution of higher education in the United States. It is named after John Harvard, its first benefactor. Harvard consists of Harvard College, twelve graduate and professional schools and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. It holds the largest university endowment in the world.

Graduate schools include the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Business School, Harvard Law School, Harvard Medical School, the T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the Kennedy School, the Graduate School of Design, the Graduate School of Education, the Divinity School, the School of Dental Medicine and the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Engineering is concentrated in the Science and Engineering Complex in Allston. The Harvard Library is the largest academic library system in the country. Affiliated hospitals include Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston Children's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Harvard enrolls about 25,000 students, and graduate and professional students make up well over half. International students account for more than a quarter of enrollment and come from about 150 countries. More than 150 Nobel laureates have been affiliated with Harvard as students, faculty or staff. Its alumni include John F. Kennedy, Barack Obama and W.E.B. Du Bois.

PhDs are awarded through the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, which typically funds doctoral students for five years. Professional programs include the JD, MBA, MPP, MPH and MArch, and many joint degrees span schools. Harvard runs on semesters. Graduate students live and work in Cambridge and Boston, and the medical and public health schools are based in the Longwood area.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, Harvard University lists 190 graduate programs across 41 subjects: 73 master's programs and 107 doctoral programs, with the widest choice in education, biology and public health. Harvard University holds rank 1 in the GSN Overall University Ranking.