Harvard-universiteit is 'n privaat navorsingsuniversiteit in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in die Verenigde State. Die universiteit het ongeveer 6 000 voorgraadse en ongeveer 15 250 nagraadse studente. Harvard is in 1636 gestig en is vernoem na sy eerste weldoener, leraar John Harvard. Die universiteit is die Verenigde State se oudste instansie van hoër onderwys,[1] en sy geskiedenis, invloed, en rykdom maak dit een van die wêreld se gesogste universiteite.[2]
Harvard's professional schools... won world prestige of a sort rarely seen among social institutions. (...) Harvard's age, wealth, quality, and prestige may well shield it from any conceivable vicissitudes.
... [Harvard's] tremendous institutional power and prestige (...) Within the nation's (arguably) most prestigious institution of higher learning ...
Harvard University, one of the world's most prestigious institutions of higher learning, was founded in Massachusetts in 1636.