Tuesday, January 13, 2015


                                  

Harvard University is dedicated to brilliance in education, studying, and research, in order to producing innovators in lots of different professions who make a difference in the world. Harvard faculty are committed with educating and research to thrust the barriers of human knowledge. For students who are delighted to explore the biggest issues of the 21st century, Harvard provides an unequaled student experience and a favorable financial aid program, with over $160 million offered to higher than 60% of their undergraduate students. The University has actually twelve degree-granting Schools including the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, providing an absolutely global education.
Instituted in 1636 as a private institution, Harvard is the most ancient institution of higher education in the USA and one of probably the most reputable universities in the world.
The University has an enrollment of over 20,000 degree students, including undergraduate, graduate, and professional learner. Harvard has more than 360,000 alumni throughout the world. Its setting is urban, and the campus size is 5,076 acres. It works by using a semester-based academic calendar. Harvard University's ranking in the 2015 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities.Its tuition and fees are $43,938 (2014-15).
Harvard is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, just away from Boston.In addition to the College, Harvard consists of 13 other schools and institutes, along with the top-ranked Business School and Medical School with the highly ranked Graduate Education School, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Law School and John F. Kennedy School of Government. In 1977, Harvard agreed upon an agreement with sister institute Radcliffe College, collaborating them in an educational partnership serving male and female students, even though they did not legally collaborate until 1999. Harvard also has the largest endowment of any school in the world.
Eight U.S. presidents graduated from Harvard College, among them Franklin Delano Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy. Various other remarkable alumni comprise
*  Philosopher Henry David Thoreau, Educator and 20th century's leading humanitarians Helen Keller,Great musican Yo-Yo Ma and  American great actor and film director Tommy Lee Jones.
* Politician: - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon; American political leaders  Al Gore, George W. Bush and Barack Obama , Chilean President  Sebastian Pinera  , Colombian President  Juan Manuel Santos , Costa Rican President José María Figueres , Mexican Presidents Felipe Calderón, Mongolian President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj , Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou , Canadian Governor General David Lloyd Johnston , Canadian Prime Ministers Mackenzie King and Pierre Trudeau , Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras , Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu , former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto .
* Royals :-  Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark, Crown Princess Masako of Japan, and  Sheikh Dr. Muhammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah of Kuwait.
* Businessman :- Businessman and philanthropist Bill Gates , philanthropist Huntington Hartford , Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg , businessman and convict Jeffrey Skilling

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