Located in Cambridge, Boston, Massachusetts, it is a top private research university, an Ivy League school, a member of the Global University Presidents Forum and the Global University Alliance for Advanced Research.
Harvard University (cost I tuition I cost of living) is the richest university in the world: Harvard University (founded in 1636), the oldest university in the United States, is also the richest university in the world.
When reviewed in June 2009, Harvard's endowment stood at $26 billion (￡15.85 billion), down from $36.9 billion (￡22.4 billion) the previous year.
In October 2021, according to the fiscal year 2021 report released by Harvard Management Company.
As of the end of June 2021, the total assets of Harvard's endowment fund exceeded US$50 billion, reaching US$53.2 billion, which is equivalent to a medium-sized public fund in China.
In 2014, Harvard University had 13 schools, namely Harvard School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Business School, Harvard School of Design, Dental Medicine, Harvard Divinity School, School of Education, Harvard Law School, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard University Public Affairs*
**School of Health, Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard Graduate School, Harvard College, and the Radcliffe School of Advanced Study, with a total enrollment of 46 undergraduate majors and 134 graduate majors;
Among them, the main body of undergraduate education is undertaken by Harvard College.
There were more than 100 Puritans among the immigrants who had received classical higher education at Oxford and Cambridge universities. In order to allow their descendants to receive this kind of education in their new homeland, they established a college on the banks of the Charles River in Massachusetts in 1636.
The first institution of learning in American history—Harvard College.