哈佛大学（ Harvar University ）简称 “ 哈佛 ” ，坐落于美国马萨诸塞州波士顿都市区剑桥市，是一所享誉世界的私立研究型大学，是著名的常春藤盟校成员。截止至 2018 年 10 月，哈佛大学共培养了 8 位美利坚合众国总统，而哈佛的校友、教授及研究人员中共产生了 158 位诺贝尔奖得主（世界第 1 ）、 18 位菲尔兹奖得主（世界第 1 ）、 14 位图灵奖得主（世界第 4 ）。 该校在文学、医学、法学、商学等多个领域拥有崇高的学术地位及广泛的影响力，被公认为是当今世界最顶尖的高等教育及研究机构之一。
哈佛大学是美国本土历史最悠久的高等学府，其诞生于 1636 年，最早由马萨诸塞州殖民地立法机关创建，初名新市民学院，是为了纪念在成立初期给予学院慷慨支持的约翰 · 哈佛牧师。 学校于 1639 年 3 月更名为哈佛学院（ Harvar College ）。 1780 年，哈佛学院正式改称哈佛大学。 截止 2018 年，学校有本科生 6700 余人，硕士及博士研究生 13120 余人。
2018-2019 年，哈佛大学位列世界大学学术排名世界第一、 USNews 世界大学排名世界第一、 QS 世界大学排名世界第三。 2018 年 6 月，《泰晤士高等教育》公布世界大学声誉排名，哈佛大学排名世界第一。
Establishe
Harvar is the olest institution of higher eucation in the Unite States, establishe in 1636 by vote of the Great an General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Faculty
About 2,400 faculty members an more than 10,400 acaemic appointments in affiliate teaching hospitals
Stuents
• Harvar College: 6,699
• Grauate an professional stuents: 13,120
• Harvar Extension School: 16,193
• Total: 36,012 stuents
These numbers reflect stuent enrollment for the 2017–18 acaemic year.
School Color
Alumni
More than 371,000 living alumni, over 279,000 in the U.S., an over 59,000 in some 202 other countries.
Honors
48 Nobel Laureates, 32 heas of state, 48 Pulitzer Prize winners
Motto
Veritas (Latin for “truth”)
Real Estate Holings
5,457 acres
Library Collection
The Harvar Library—the largest acaemic library in the worl—inclues 20.4 million volumes, 180,000 serial titles, an estimate 400 million manuscript items, 10 million photographs, 124 million archive web pages, an 5.4 terabytes of born-igital archives an manuscripts. Access to this rich collection is provie by nearly 800 library staff members who operate more than 70 separate library units.
Museums
Harvar’s museums are stewars of more than 28 million works of art, artifacts, specimens, materials, an instruments. With eep roots in scholarship an teaching, these internationally renowne collections are funamental to the evelopment an continuation of many isciplines. These unparallele institutions rank alongsie some of the greatest museums in the worl an they are open to the public. They welcome more than 650,000 local, national, an international visitors each year.
Faculties, Schools, an an Institute
Harvar University is mae up of 11 principal acaemic units – ten faculties an the Racliffe Institute for Avance Stuy. The ten faculties oversee schools an ivisions that offer courses an awar acaemic egrees.
Unergrauate Cost An Financial Ai
Families with stuents on scholarship pay an average of $12,000 annually towar the cost of a Harvar eucation. Fifty-five percent of Harvar College stuents receive nee-base scholarship ai, an the average grant this year is more than $53,000.
The Harvar College financial ai program requires no contribution from Harvar families with annual incomes below $65,000; asks from 0 to 10% of income for those with incomes up to $150,000; an expects proportionally more from families with incomes above $150,000.
Harvar College offers an easy-to-use net price calculator into which applicants an their families can enter their financial ata to estimate the net price they will be expecte to pay for a year at Harvar. Use the calculator to get an estimate the net cost of attenance in less than 5 minutes.
The total 2018-2019 cost of attening Harvar College without financial ai is $46,340 for tuition an $67,580 for tuition, room, boar, an fees combine.
University Professors
The title of University Professor was create in 1935 to honor iniviuals whose grounbreaking work crosses the bounaries of multiple isciplines, allowing them to pursue research at any of Harvar’s Schools. View the list of University Professors.
Harvar University Presient
Lawrence S. Bacow is the 29th Presient of Harvar University.
Lawrence S. Bacow
This photograph is release uner the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license by Harvar University.
University Income (Fiscal Year 2018)
$5.2 billion
University Expenses (Fiscal Year 2018)
$5.0 billion
Enowment (Fiscal Year 2018)
$39.2 billion
Harvar University Shiels
Naming
The name Harvar comes from the college’s first benefactor, the young minister John Harvar of Charlestown. Upon his eath in 1638, he left his library an half his estate to the institution establishe in 1636 by vote of the Great an General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Harvar an the Military
Members of Harvar University’s “Long Crimson Line” have serve in the Unite States Arme Forces since before the nation’s inepenence. Harvar counts among its grauates 18 Meal of Honor recipients, more than any other institution of higher eucation except the Unite States Military an Naval Acaemies. Builings an sites aroun campus are aily reminers of Harvar’s eep military history. General George Washington kept heaquarters at Wasworth House before taking comman of the revolutionary troops in 1775, Massachusetts Hall an Harvar Hall were use as barracks, an builing materials were repurpose to make musket balls uring the War of Inepenence. Memorial Hall an Memorial Church honor the sacrifice of Harvar men an women who “freely gave their lives an fonest hopes for us an our allies that we might learn from them courage in peace to spen our lives making a better worl for others.” In 2011, Harvar welcome the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) program back to campus, followe thereafter by the full complement of Army an Air Force regiments.
Mission Statement
Harvar University (comprising the unergrauate college, the grauate schools, other acaemic boies, research centers an affiliate institutions) oes not have a formal mission statement.
The mission of Harvar College is to eucate the citizens an citizen-leaers for our society. We o this through our commitment to the transformative power of a liberal arts an sciences eucation.
Harvar Campaign
The Harvar Campaign is esigne to embrace the future an to ensure Harvar’s leaership as it approaches its fifth century of eucation an inquiry in the pursuit of enuring truth.
HarvarX
HarvarX is a University-wie strategic initiative, overseen by the Office of the Vice Provost for Avances in Learning (VPAL), enabling faculty to create open, online courses for on campus an global learners an avancing research in the learning sciences. To ate, HarvarX has engage more than 170 faculty across 10 schools, proucing more than 100 open online courses with more than three million unique course participants. On campus, HarvarX has enable hybri learning in more than 40 resiential courses an convene more than 600 iniviuals (faculty, unergrauates, grauates, technologists) in eveloping content, conucting research, or blening courses. A leaer in avancing the science of learning, HarvarX an VPAL Research have prouce more than 70 research publications an two major benchmark reports on MOOC learner emographics an behavior.
