Harvard

About it:
One of the bests universitys in the world, with the most highlighted courses of the U.S.A.

General data:

• Motto: Veritas (Truth)
• Type: Private
• President: Catherine Drew Gilpin Faust

Location:
Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A

Foundation:
1636

Founders:
Colonial Massachusetts legislature.

Highlighted courses:
All of the Harvard courses are very disputed.

Highlights:

• Seven U.S.A Presidents come from Harvard.
• 75 Nobel Prize are from people that is afiliated with the university.
  

Famous alumni:
George W. Bush; Barack Obama; John F. Kennedy; Al Gore; Conan O'Brien; Natalie Portman; 

Curious facts:

• The Harvard University Library System is centered in Windener Library in Harvard Yard and comprises over 80 individual libraries and over 15 million volumes.According to the American Library Association, this makes it the largest academic library in the United States.
• Seventy-five Nobel Prize winners are affiliated with the university. Since 1974, 19 Nobel Prize winners and 15 winners of the American literary award, the Pulitzer Prize, have served on the Harvard faculty.
• Harvard's athletic rivalry with Yale is intense in every sport in which they meet, coming to a climax each fall in their annual football meeting, which dates back to 1875 and is usually called simply The Game.
• Since the filming of Love Story in the 1960s the university, until the summer of 2007 filming of The Great Debaters did not allow any movies to be filmed in campus buildings; most films are shot in look-alike cities, such as Toronto, and colleges such as UCLA, Wheaton and Bridgewater State, although outdoor and aerial shots of Harvard's Cambridge campus are often used.

Classification:
First place, in the most of the ranks.

Benefits for the Student:
One of the best universities in the world, Harvard is without doubt, itself the greatest benefit for the student.