Harvard University

Harvard University is a non-government Ivy League research university established in the year 1636 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The  history, wealth and  influence of this  University are the reasons that  it one of the most reputable  universities in the world.

Harvard University was originally established  by the Massachusetts legislature and  it was named for John Harvard (its first benefactor)  soon thereafter . Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States of America .Although never officially affiliated with any  recognized autonomous branch of the Christian Church, the early College primarily trained   member of the Congregational Church  and Unitarian clergy. During the 18th century , Its  student body and curriculum were gradually secularized , and by the 19th century it  had  appear as the central cultural development  among Boston elites. During  the American Civil War,  Charles W. Eliot's  the President of  Harvard    transformed the college and its  professional schools in the year (1869–1909) into a modern research university.  In  the year 1900  ,  Association of American University's founding member was Harvard . The university went through the Great Depression  by James Bryant Conant . In the year 1977 , It  merger   with Radcliffe College made the undergraduate college became coeducational .

The University is well ordered into 10 faculties , 11 separate academic units  and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study having  campuses  in every part of  the Boston metropolitan area. its 209-acre (85 ha) main campus is approximately 3 miles (5 km) northwest of Boston  and centered on Harvard Yard in Cambridge .The athletics facilities and business school  , including Harvard Stadium  are situated  across the Charles River in the Allston near the  Boston and the medical, public health and dental  schools are in the Longwood Medical Area. Harvard  has been the University having the largest financial endowment among  any academic institution all around  the world  in the year 2013 , standing at $32.3 billion  .

Harvard is one of the   large and  highly residential research university. The  formal cost of appearance is high, but the University's large endowment permit  it to  offer liberal  financial aid packages. It manage several arts, scientific and cultural  museums, along with  the Harvard Library, which is the world's most largest  private and academic  library system, containing  79 individual libraries with more than  18 million volume.

 Harvard has many prominent alumni.  Several foreign heads of state  and  eight U.S. presidents   have been the graduates of  Harvard University. It  also has been  the alma mater of  335 Rhodes Scholars and  62 living billionaires   in the country.  Harvard University has won 150 Nobel laureates   by its  students, faculty, or staff .