Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, whose history, influence and wealth are one of the most prestigious universities in the world has become.

Founded in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature, and soon the name of John Harvard (his first benefactor), Harvard is the oldest institution of higher education in the United States, and the Harvard Corporation

(formally the President and Fellows of the College Harvard) is the first approved enterprise. Although never formally affiliated with a church, university asked mainly Congregationalist clergy and unity. His curriculum and students were gradually secularized in the 18th century and by the 19th century had emerged as Harvard central cultural establishment among Boston elites. After the American Civil War, the long tenure of President Charles W. Eliot (1869-1909), the college and affiliated professional schools turned into a modern university; Harvard was one of the founders of the Association of American Universities 1900.James Bryant Conant led the university through the Great Depression and World War II and began to reform the curriculum and liberalize admissions after the war. The undergraduate college became coeducational after the 1977 merger with Radcliffe College.

The university is organized into eleven separate academic units to ten faculties and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study-with campuses in the Boston metropolitan area: 209 acres (85 ha) main campus is focused on Harvard Yard in Cambridge, about 3 miles (5 km) northwest of Boston; the premises of the business school and athletics, including Harvard Stadium, are located across the Charles River in Allston neighborhood of Boston, and medical, dental and public health schools in the Longwood Medical Area.Harvard account of the largest financial endowment of an academic institution in the world, standing at $ 32300000000 by June 2013.

Harvard is a highly residential research university. The undergraduate program (a minority of tender covers) emphasizes an arts & sciences focus "while graduate programs have a greater variety of disciplinary degrees offered. [Clarification of the nominal cost of care is high, but large donation to the university provide generous financial support packages.It operates several museums, and the Library of Harvard University, is the oldest library system in the United States, the largest academic and the largest private library system in the world.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( USA )

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded in 1861 in response to the increasing industrialization of the United States. The institute has a European polytechnic university model and emphasized laboratory instruction in science established and applied engineering. MIT's early emphasis on applied technology at the undergraduate and graduate levels led to close cooperation with industry. The curricular reforms under Karl Compton and Vannevar Bush in the 1930s emphasized basic science. MIT was elected to the Association of American Universities in 1934. Researchers working on computers, radar, and inertial guidance during World War II and the Cold War. Postwar defense research contributed to the rapid exp

Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( USA )

ansion of the faculty and campus under James Killian. The current campus of 168 acres (68.0 ha) was opened in 1916 and extends over 1 mile (1.6 km) along the northern banks of the Charles River Basin.