Harvard-universiteit

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]

1. ↑ Rudolph, Frederick (1961). The American College and University. University of Georgia Press. p. 3. ISBN 0-8203-1285-1.
2. ↑ Keller, Morton; Keller, Phyllis (2001). Making Harvard Modern: The Rise of America's University. Oxford University Press. pp. 463–481. ISBN 0-19-514457-0. 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.
   • Spaulding, Christina (1989). "Sexual Shakedown". In Trumpbour, John (red.). How Harvard Rules: Reason in the Service of Empire. South End Press. pp. 326–336. ISBN 0-89608-284-9. ... [Harvard's] tremendous institutional power and prestige (...) Within the nation's (arguably) most prestigious institution of higher learning ...
   • David Altaner (9 Maart 2011). "Harvard, MIT Ranked Most Prestigious Universities, Study Reports". Bloomberg. Besoek op 1 Maart 2012.
   • Collier's Encyclopedia. Macmillan Educational Co. 1986. Harvard University, one of the world's most prestigious institutions of higher learning, was founded in Massachusetts in 1636.
   • Newport, Frank. "Harvard Number One University in Eyes of Public Stanford and Yale in second place". Gallup.