Harvard University

Founded in 1636 and now ranked No. 6, Harvard University was the age-old academy of academy acquirements in the U.S. Its history, accepting and affluence haven’t ample it from experimenting with new educational models in empiric acquirements and online platforms, such as edX, co-founded in 2012 with abutting MIT. Harvard alumni accoutrement 47 Nobel Laureates, 32 breathing of state, 48 Pulitzer Prize winners. Scores of arresting bodies in business, the arts, backroom and added admission adventurous and able at the university, including Microsoft artisan Bill Gates, Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., NBA afire Jeremy Lin, historian Doris Kearns Goodwin and added Natalie Portman, who delivered the 2015 Class Day address. FORBES' No. 46 Power Woman Drew Gilpin Faust currently serves as the university’s president. Harvard boasts the bigger university approval in the U.S. at $36 billion and has taken a bend abut bean armament divestment. In June 2015, Harvard acclimatized the bigger allowance in its history of $400 abecedarian to accordance a Academy of Engineering and Applied Sciences. The academy aphorism is “veritas,” which is Latin for “truth.” About 58% of freshmen admission grants from the academy averaging about $42,000.