Harvard is a world-renowned private research university and a member of an Ivy League school. Harvard University is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. It was founded in 1636 and was originally established by the colonial legislature in Massachusetts.
Harvard is one of the most famous and oldest institutions of higher learning in America. This private institution is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, close to MIT, which has the reputation of "the best polytechnic university in the world". Harvard University was founded in 1636, when it was a school for cultivating priests established in the Massachusetts colony. In order to commemorate the generous donation of Puritan pastor john harvard, the Massachusetts Grand Court ordered it to be named Harvard College on March 1639. Harvard University is the first of eight members of an Ivy League school.
Campus distribution and honor of Harvard University.
* * * There are three campuses: Cambridge Campus, Alstom Campus and Changmu Campus, with a total area of 4,882 acres and a building area of 2 1 565,000 square feet. Among them, there are 1 1 colleges in Cambridge campus, and 4 colleges in Alstom and Changmu campus. There are 46 undergraduate majors and 134 graduate majors in the whole school. As of 20 14, Harvard University has about 2,400 faculty members.
The predecessor of Harvard University was the New Citizen College, which was founded in 1636, renamed as "Harvard College" in 1639, and a new constitution was promulgated in Massachusetts in 1780, and Harvard College was renamed as Harvard University after expansion. This school has trained eight American presidents and hundreds of Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize winners, such as john adams, ralph emerson and henry thoreau.
By 2020, Harvard University will rank fifth in the world in 2023QS and second in Times Higher Education World University.