Harvard University

                                                           Harvard University


Harvard  University, oldest institution of higer learning in the United States, founded 1636, and one of the nation's most prestigious. it is one of the IVY League schools. The main university campus lies along the Charles River in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a few miles west of downtown Boston. Harvards total enrollment is about 20.000.

Harvard's history began when a colege was estabilished at New Towne, which was later renamed cambridge for the English alma mater of some of the leading colonists . The university has gradute or professional schools of medicin, law, business, divinity, education, goverenment, dental medicine,design, and public health.
Popular alumnus of the university were Barak Obama, Mark Cukerberg, Natali Portman, Mett Deimon, Albert Gor and Bill Gates.
Qick facts 
faculty: 2,400 Faculty members and more than 10,400 academic appontments un affiliated teaching hospitals.
students:
Harvard College: About6,700
Graduate and professional students: About 15,250
Total: About 22,000
Alumni
More than 371,000 living alumni, over 279,000 in the U.S over 59,000 in some 202 other countries.
Honors
48 Nobel Laureates, 32 head of state, 48 Pulitzer Prize winners
Motto
Veritas. Latin for "truth''

The harvard Libroary- the largest academic libroary in the world- includes 20.4 million volumes, 180,000 serial tiles an estimated 400 million manuscriptes items, 10 million photographs items, 124 million archived web pages, and 5,4 trabytes of born- degital archives and manuscriptes. Access to this rich collection is provide by nearly 800 libroary staf members who operate more than 70 separrate library units.