Established
1636
Faculty
About 2497 non-medical faculty
And about 10,674 medical school faculty
Students
For academic year 2006-07
Undergraduates - 6,715
Graduate and professional students - 12,424
Extension - 975
Total - 20,042
(with 72 dual-degree students)
School color
crimson
Living alumni
More than 270,000
Nobel Laureates
43 current and former faculty members
Motto
Veritas
(Latin for "truth")
Real estate holdings
4938 acres
Library collection
More than 15.5 million volumes
Faculties
10 principal academic units; 9 faculties oversee 11 schools and colleges
Undergraduate cost
For academic year 2006-07
$30,275 Tuition
$ 9,946 Room and board
$ 3,434 Fees
$43,655 Total
Financial aid
For academic year 2006-07
$30,000 average undergraduate aid package
President Drew Faust
Harvard University President
Drew Faust
University income
Fiscal Year 2006
$3 billion
University expenses
Fiscal Year 2006
$3 billion
Endowment
Fiscal Year 2006
$29.2 billion
Harvard seal
Harvard Veritas shield with leaves circling a red shield with open books, each book has letters on it and together they spell Veritas
Naming Harvard
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.
source -http://www.news.harvard.edu/glance/
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if only i can afford to study there! sigh!"
