Friday, August 19, 2011

Harvard University Review



Harvard at a Glance

ESTABLISHED
1636

FACULTY
About 2,100 faculty members and more than 10,000 academic appointments in affiliated teaching hospitals

STUDENTS
Harvard College – About 6,700
Graduate and professional students – About 14,500
Total – About 21,000


LIVING ALUMNI
More than 323,000, over 271,000 in the U.S., nearly 52,000 in some 201 other countries. See the alumni website for more information.

NOBEL LAUREATES
44 current and former faculty members

MOTTO
Veritas (Latin for “truth”)

REAL ESTATE HOLDINGS
4,979 acres

LIBRARY COLLECTION
About 16.2 million volumes

FACULTIES, SCHOOLS, AND AN INSTITUTE
Harvard University is made up of 11 principal academic units – ten faculties and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The ten faculties oversee schools and divisions that offer courses and award academic degrees.

UNDERGRADUATE COST (2010-2011 ACADEMIC YEAR)
Tuition – $34,976
Total including room, board, student service fees – $50,723

FINANCIAL AID (2010-2011 ACADEMIC YEAR)
Nearly $41,300 average total aid package

UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS
22 'individuals of distinction'


HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT


Drew Gilpin Faust

UNIVERSITY INCOME (FISCAL YEAR 2010)
$3.7 billion

UNIVERSITY EXPENSES (FISCAL YEAR 2010)
$3.7 billion

ENDOWMENT (FISCAL YEAR 2010)
$27.6 billion

HARVARD UNIVERSITY SHIELDS



NAMING
The name Harvard comes from the college’s first benefactor, the young minister John Harvard of Charlestown. Upon his death in 1638, he left his library and half his estate to the institution established in 1636 by vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

source : http://www.harvard.edu/harvard-glance

this is my target, to get it i have to study hard and focus :)

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