Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Its Faculty of Arts and Sciences offers study in a wide range of undergraduate and graduate academic disciplines. The university has ten academic faculties and a faculty attached to Harvard Radcliffe Institute. Harvard College is just one of 14 Harvard Schools.

Its main campus, 209 acres, is centered on Harvard Yard in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard was founded in 1636 by a vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. It was named Harvard College in 1639 in honor of its first benefactor, Puritan clergyman John Harvard. It is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. Harvard's endowment was valued at $55.7 billion.

Alan M. Garber leads Harvard University as its 31st President. In 1900, Harvard co-founded the Association of American Universities.