Postsecondary Institution
Harvard University
Massachusetts Hall, Cambridge, MA, 02138
IDSCU ID: PS-0052Type: UniversityStatus: ActiveData captured: 8 Sept 2026
Overview
Harvard University is a private nonprofit research university in Cambridge, United States, offering undergraduate and postgraduate education.
Institution information
- Institution type
- University
- Operating status
- Active
- Ownership
- Private nonprofit
- Founded
- 1636
- Founded information
- Established in 1636 and named for benefactor John Harvard in 1639.
- Teaching languages
- English
Qualifications & fields
- Primary pathway
- Higher Education
- Education pathways
- Higher Education
- Qualification levels
- Certificate
- Associate
- Bachelor
- Graduate Certificate
- Master
- First Professional Degree
- Doctorate
- Fields of study
- Arts and Humanities
- Social Sciences
- Business and Management
- Engineering and Technology
- Computer Science
- Natural Sciences
- Medicine and Health
- Law
- Education
- Public Policy
- Health Professions and Related Programs
- Agriculture, Agriculture Operations, and Related Sciences
- Natural Resources and Conservation
- Architecture and Related Services
- Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, and Group Studies
- Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs
- Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services
- Engineering
- Engineering Technologies and Engineering-Related Fields
- Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
- Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences
- Legal Professions and Studies
- English Language and Literature/Letters
- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities
- Biological and Biomedical Sciences
- Mathematics and Statistics
- Military Technologies and Applied Sciences
- Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies
- Philosophy and Religious Studies
- Theology and Religious Vocations
- Physical Sciences
- Psychology
- Public Administration and Social Service Professions
- Visual and Performing Arts
- Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services
- History
- Academic divisions
- Faculty of Arts and Sciences
- School of Arts and Sciences
- School of Design
- School of Education
- School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
- School of Dental Medicine
- School of Public Health
- School of Design Exhibitions
- Delivery modes
- On-campus
- Online
- Study loads
- Full-time
- Part-time
- Awarding bodies
- Harvard University
Campuses & admissions
- Address
- Massachusetts Hall, Cambridge, MA, 02138
- Latitude
- 42.374471
- Longitude
- -71.118313
- Campuses
- Name: Cambridge location · City: Cambridge · Relationship: Principal institutional location
- Admissions
- Open official page
- Course catalogue
- Open official page
- Accommodation
- On-campus room and board costs are reported to IPEDS.
- Student support
- Financial aid information
- Disability support services
- Veteran and military student resources
Record information
- IDSCU record ID
- PS-0052
- Education sector
- Postsecondary Institution
- Country code
- US
- Data captured
- 8 Sept 2026
- Data release
- 20260908T071051Z
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