Harvard University

is a clandestine analysis university in Cambridge, Massachusetts (US), accustomed 1636, whose history, access and abundance accept fabricated it one of the world's a lot of celebrated universities.

Established originally by the Massachusetts assembly and anon thereafter called for John Harvard (its aboriginal benefactor), Harvard is the United States' oldest academy of academy learning, and the Harvard Association (formally, the President and Fellows of Harvard College) is its aboriginal accountant corporation. Although never formally affiliated with any denomination, the aboriginal Academy primarily accomplished Congregationalist and Unitarian clergy. Its class and apprentice physique were gradually secularized during the 18th century, and by the 19th aeon Harvard had emerged as the axial cultural enactment a part of Boston elites. Following the American Civil War, President Charles W. Eliot's continued administration (1869–1909) adapted the academy and affiliated able schools into a avant-garde analysis university; Harvard was a founding affiliate of the Association of American Universities in 1900. James Bryant Conant led the university through the Great Depression and World War II and began to ameliorate the class and liberalize admissions afterwards the war. The undergraduate academy became coeducational afterwards its 1977 alliance with Radcliffe College.
The University is organized into eleven abstracted bookish units—ten commonsense and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study—with campuses throughout the Boston city area: its 209-acre (85 ha) capital campus is centered on Harvard Yard in Cambridge, about 3 afar (5 km) northwest of Boston; the business academy and contest facilities, including Harvard Stadium, are amid beyond the Charles River in the Allston adjacency of Boston and the medical, dental, and accessible bloom schools are in the Longwood Medical Area. Harvard's $37.6 billion banking award is the better of any bookish institution.
Harvard is a large, awful residential analysis university. The nominal amount of appearance is high, but the University's ample award allows it to action acceptable banking aid packages. It operates several arts, cultural, and accurate museums, alongside the Harvard Library, which is the world's better bookish and clandestine library system, absolute 79 alone libraries with over 18 actor volumes. Harvard's alumni cover eight U.S. presidents, several adopted active of state, 62 active billionaires, 335 Rhodes Scholars, and 242 Marshall Scholars. To date, some 150 Nobel laureates, 18 Fields Medalists and 13 Turing Award winners accept been affiliated as students, faculty, or staff.