About Harvard University

The most famous, the oldest, richest and most prestigious American university, Harvard is part of the Ivy League, and dream a dream from childhood all careerists. Harvard diploma - a pass to the highest light and the elite in almost any area.

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Harvard University was founded in 1636, after only 16 years after the first English colonists on American soil. Harvard - is the oldest institution of higher education of the USA. Formed university was modeled on the British university where the main subjects were the philosophical discipline. In the early years at Harvard College was only one teacher and nine students. Studied mainly biblical texts, languages, especially Latin, and mathematics. At the beginning of the XIX century began to teach at Harvard, law and medicine. Postupenno Harvard turned into a major university with a rich academic and scientific base.

The name of the university was named after its first benefactor, John Harvard, who bequeathed the College his library and half of his goods. Today, a monument to John Harvard adorns the campus, and students believe that if you rub his shoe, all exams will be put on "excellent".

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Harvard - a multi-university where you can study any science. In addition, it is one of the largest and most well-equipped research centers, which is proud of its achievements, especially in medicine. Specialization in the medical field are also among the most popular, along with jurisprudence, management and political science. At Harvard, you can get a bachelor's degree, masters and doctoral degrees (PhD), as well as a diploma MBA.

Number of students: Total Harvard about 21 thousand. Students. Of these, about six and a half thousand in undergraduate studies.

Famous graduates. Harvard has historically been considered a forge political and scientific elite. There studied eight US presidents, including Theodore Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, and the number of Nobel Prize winners has passed for three decades. Harvard University - alma mater US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, economist and chairman of the Central Reserve Ben Bernanke, the head of Goldman Sachs Lloyd Blankfein, Mexican President Felipe Calderon and one of the most influential women in business and a member of the Board of Directors of Facebook Sheryl Sandberg. At Harvard, he studied, but the diploma did not receive the co-founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, the founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg and actor Matt Damon. However, years later, Bill Gates received an honorary degree from Harvard. Among the actors, too many graduates of Harvard: John Lithgow, Conan O'Brien, Natalie Portman, and Mira Sorvino. He is a Harvard graduate and Oscar winner Tommy Lee Jones, who during his studies at the university lived in the same room with Al Gore, the future vice-president of the United States. The famous cellist Yo-Yo Ma graduated from Harvard after being dropped out of Columbia University.