harvard university
One of the most prestigious American universities and the best globally, is characterized by sizeable area and equipment and the difficulty of accepting students. Where the elite of American society taught since 1636 (ie before the country's independence), and adopt the term "truth" slogan.
History and restructuring
Founded Harvard University Albroostanti Rev. John Harvard on September 8 / September in 1636 in Cambridge, Mass., Northeast of the United States, occupies the main campus area of ??85 hectares, just 4.5 kilometers north-west of the state capital Boston.
The university was initially called "New College" before he called the Harvard name in honor of its founder, who donated half his fortune and four hundred book from his library of the founding of the university, which includes 15 colleges in different fields, such as medicine, engineering, design, education and the arts, theology, business, and the administration of government, law, public health, in addition to the Radcliffe Institute.
And it works at Harvard academic and 12800 belong to 21 thousand students, and accepted 1,500 students each year, either from the US or from around the world. And an annual budget of four billion dollars, and estimated the total financial unstoppable $ 36.4 billion, is among the most prestigious facilities, a library and a museum technician and a sports stadium huge.
The University offers undergraduate certificates and certificates Undergraduate graduate and also undergraduate degrees as well as professional and continuing education certificates summer program.
Classified Harvard in the fifth ranking globally in the difficulty of accepting students, and the cost of the study in which 52 thousand dollars a year without accommodation expenses, and in return the university administration offers numerous facilities for those not able to afford those costs, grants are not given to distinguished students inside and outside the United States.
The university has 2014 got the largest grant ever made by the "Morning Side" Foundation for the School of Public Health at the University $ 350 million, to strengthen seeking to increase financial aid for students efforts, and exemption of graduates who are working in disadvantaged from the repayment of loans areas.
Scientific status
Harvard University occupies first place on the list of the top hundred universities in the world, ahead of the universities of Cambridge and Oxford into British.
Where he graduated 32 head ruled their countries in various countries around the world, including US presidents, such as John Adams, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and George W. Bush, and Barack Obama, and Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon.
As the scientists also studied 47 Nobel Prize winners, and 48 received the award "Pulitzer" press, in addition to other international figures, including Microsoft owner Bill Gates, the founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg.
Harvard University has the largest academic library in the United States and the world, of the contents of 19 million books and four hundred million manuscript, ten million images, and is the major destination for those interested in the issues of the Middle East, where the documents are rare 18th-century exist, and operates the university administration to be converted into digital copies to benefit including researchers all over the world.
The US authorities on January 13, 2014 to vacate the university after receiving detonated threats, where the university said -aly her official website and across its front page on the site "Twitter" - The four buildings at least cleared from the faculty and student members, after reports of "unconfirmed" According to planting improvised explosive devices within the university.
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