Harvard University

Established
1636

Faculty
About 1,900 faculty members and more than 10,000 academic appointments in affiliated teaching hospitals
Students


* Harvard College — ~6,700
* Graduate and professional students — ~12,300
* Total — ~20,000

School color
Crimson

Living alumni
More than 300,000 - over 250,000 in the U.S.; nearly 50,000 in some 190 other
countries

Nobel Laureates
43 current and former faculty members

Motto
Veritas (Latin for “truth”)

Real estate holdings
4,947 acres

Library collection
Nearly 16 million volumes

Faculties, schools, and an institute
Harvard University is made up of 10 principal academic units — nine faculties and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The nine faculties oversee schools and divisions that offer courses and award academic degrees.

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 half his estate to the institution established in 1636 by vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Undergraduate cost

* Tuition: $32,557
* Total including room, board, student service fees: $47,215

Financial aid (2008-09 academic year)
Nearly $40,000 average total aid package

University Professors
20 ‘individuals of distinction’ »

Harvard University President
Drew Gilpin Faust

University income (Fiscal Year 2007)
$3,210,506,000

University expenses (Fiscal Year 2007
$3,170,650,000

Endowment (Fiscal Year 2007
$36.9 billion