Harvard University

Harvard University is a clandestine academy that was founded in 1636. It has a absolute undergraduate acceptance of 6,722, its ambience is urban, and the campus admeasurement is 5,076 acres. It utilizes a semester-based bookish calendar. Harvard University's baronial in the 2015 copy of Best Colleges is National Universities, 2. Its charge and fees are $43,938 (2014-15).

Harvard is amid in Cambridge, Massachusetts, just alfresco of Boston. Harvard's all-encompassing library arrangement houses the oldest accumulating in the United States and the better clandestine accumulating in the world. There is added to the academy than amaranthine stacks, though: Harvard's able-bodied teams attempt in the Ivy League, and every football division ends with "The Game," an anniversary antagonism amid acclaimed rivals Harvard and Yale. At Harvard, on-campus residential apartment is an basic allotment of apprentice life. Freshmen reside about the Harvard Yard at the centermost of campus, afterwards which they are placed in one of 12 undergraduate houses for their actual three years. Although they are no best accustomed by the university as official apprentice groups, the eight all-male "final clubs" serve as amusing organizations for some undergraduate students; Harvard aswell has 5 changeable clubs.

In accession to the College, Harvard is fabricated up of 13 added schools and institutes, including the top-ranked Business Academy and Medical Academy and the awful ranked Graduate Education School, Academy of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Law Academy and John F. Kennedy Academy of Government. Eight U.S. presidents accelerating from Harvard College, including Franklin Delano Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy. Added notable alumni cover Henry David Thoreau, Helen Keller, Yo-Yo Ma and Tommy Lee Jones. In 1977, Harvard active an acceding with sister convention Radcliffe College, chain them in an educational affiliation confined macho and changeable students, although they did not clearly absorb until 1999. Harvard aswell has the better award of any academy in the world.