Browse the graduate and undergraduate degrees offered by Harvard's 13 Schools and learn more about admissions requirements, scholarship, and financial aid opportunities.

Electrical Engineering has long played a critical role in undergirding innovations that improve the quality of life, support economic growth, and address societal problems.

On Sept. 8, 1836, at Harvard’s Bicentennial celebration, it was announced that President Josiah Quincy had found the first rough sketch of the College arms—a shield with the Latin motto “VERITAS” (“Verity” or “Truth”) on three books—while researching his History of Harvard University in the College Archives. During the Bicentennial, a white banner atop a …

Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences comprises the following four schools: Harvard College, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and Harvard Extension School.

The first of his family to go to college, David was not satisfied with a single Harvard degree, or even two—he took a break between his third and fourth years at Harvard Medical School to earn a master’s degree in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School and one in business administration from Harvard Business School.

The education of Native Americans is woven into the long history of Harvard University. The Charter of 1650, which continues to govern Harvard, pledges the University to “the education of English and Indian youth.”

The concentration in Computer Science is designed to teach students skills and ideas they will use immediately and in the future. Because information technology affects every aspect of society, graduates with computer science degrees have open to them an enormous variety of careers—engineering, teaching, medicine, law, basic science, entertainment, management, and countless others.

Jointly administered by HBS and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Ph.D. in business administration grounds students in disciplinary theories and methods and trains them to apply these theories and methods in academic research on important business problems.

research spotlight. The Kempner Institute. The Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard University is a dynamic and diverse community of students, scientists, and engineers dedicated to revealing the foundations of intelligence in both natural and artificial contexts, and to leveraging these findings to develop groundbreaking technologies.

Although the practices of mindfulness and meditation are thousands of years old, research on their health benefits is relatively new, but promising.