Harvard College

Harvard College
TypePrivate undergraduate college
Established1636; 388 years ago (1636)
Parent institution
Harvard University
DeanRakesh Khurana
Students6,755[1]
Location
Cambridge
,
Massachusetts
,
United States

42°22′26″N 71°07′01″W / 42.374°N 71.117°W / 42.374; -71.117
CampusUrban
Websitecollege.harvard.edu

Harvard College is the undergraduate college of Harvard University, a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Part of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard College is Harvard University's traditional undergraduate program, offering AB (Bachelor of Arts) and SB (Bachelor of Science) degrees. It is highly selective, with fewer than four percent of applicants being offered admission as of 2022.[2][3]

Harvard College students participate in over 450 extracurricular organizations[4] and nearly all live on campus. First-year students reside in or near Harvard Yard and upperclass students reside in other on-campus housing.

  1. ^ "Common Data Set 2019–2020" (PDF). Office of Institutional Research. Harvard University. Archived (PDF) from the original on June 26, 2020. Retrieved June 23, 2020.
  2. ^ "Record-Low 4.59 Percent of Applicants Accepted to Harvard Class of 2022". The Harvard Crimson. March 29, 2018. Archived from the original on November 9, 2020. Retrieved September 16, 2019.
  3. ^ "Record-Low 4.5 Percent of Harvard College Applicants Accepted to Class of 2023". The Harvard Crimson. March 29, 2019. Archived from the original on November 12, 2020. Retrieved September 16, 2019.
  4. ^ "Student Activities". Archived from the original on October 24, 2020. Retrieved December 7, 2019.