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HARVARD

BASIC INFORMATION:

BRIEF HISTORY:

  • Located in Cambridge-Boston, Massachusetts

  • Harvard’s motto is Veritas Christo et Ecclesiae, meaning "Truth for the Church and Christ"

  • The amount of students is approximately 25,000

  • The student-faculty ratio is 7:1

  • Established at September 8, 1636 as the first college in the American colonies 

  • Despite popular opinion Harvard was not founded by John Harvard

  • Officially founded by a vote by the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony 

UNDERGRADUATE MAJORS AND MINORS:

  • More than 3,700 courses in 50 undergraduate fields (concentrations). For example Molecular and Cellular Biology, Interactive Biology, Neuroscience and many more

  • You can earn up to 2 minors to complement your undergraduate degree. You can choose from Computer Science, Economics, Environmental Studies and more​​

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ALUMNI:

SOME FAMOUS ALUMNI:

  • 79 Nobel Prize laureates

  • 8 U.S. Presidents

  • 369 Rhodes Scholars

  • 7 Field Marshall Winners

  • 108 Olympic Medalists

  • 10 Academy Awards

  • 48 Pulitzer Prizes

  • Neil Degrasse Tyson (Astrophysicist)

  • Harrison Schmitt (Astronaut at NASA)

  • Walter Gilbert (Nobel Prize in Chemistry)

  • Stephanie Wilson (NASA Astronaut)

  • Natalie Portman (Actress)

CAMPUS INFO:

  • 3 main campuses - Cambridge, Boston, Allston

  • The oldest library system in the U.S.

  • 15 museums

  • Campus traverses the Charles River

  • Harvard Yard is the historic hub where nearly all first-years live, 

  • Harvard Square is filled with shops, restaurants, bookstores, cafés, theatres 

REQUIREMENTS:

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