Editing Harvard University (section)

=== Teaching and learning ===
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| '''School''' || '''Founded'''
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[Harvard College]] || 1636
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[Harvard Medical School|Medicine]] || 1782
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[Harvard Divinity School|Divinity]] || 1816
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[Harvard Law School|Law]] || 1817
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences|Engineering and Applied Sciences]] || 1847
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[Harvard School of Dental Medicine|Dental Medicine]] || 1867
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences|Arts and Sciences]] || 1872
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[Harvard Business School|Business]] || 1908
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| [[Harvard Extension School|Extension]] || 1910
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[Harvard Graduate School of Design|Design]] || 1936
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[Harvard Graduate School of Education|Education]] || 1920
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| [[Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health|Public Health]] || 1913
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| [[Harvard Kennedy School|Government]]|| 1936
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Harvard is a large, highly residential research university<ref name="Carnegie">{{cite web |title=Carnegie Classifications – Harvard University |url=http://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup/view_institution.php?unit_id=166027 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807163149/https://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup/view_institution.php?unit_id=166027 |archive-date=August 7, 2020 |access-date=August 28, 2010 |website=iu.edu |publisher=The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching |language=en-US}}</ref>
offering 50 [[Harvard College|undergraduate]] majors,<ref name="liberal">{{cite web |title=Liberal Arts & Sciences |url=https://college.harvard.edu/academics/liberal-arts-sciences |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211005022949/https://college.harvard.edu/academics/liberal-arts-sciences |archive-date=October 5, 2021 |access-date=December 12, 2019 |website=harvard.edu |publisher=Harvard College |language=en-US}}</ref>
134 graduate degrees,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gsas.harvard.edu/images/stories/pdfs/handbook.pdf|title=Degree Programs|work=Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Handbook|pages=28–30|access-date=August 28, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150909232153/http://www.gsas.harvard.edu/images/stories/pdfs/handbook.pdf|archive-date=September 9, 2015}}</ref> and 32 professional degrees.<ref name="Degrees" /> During the 2018–2019 academic year, Harvard granted 1,665 baccalaureate degrees, 1,013 graduate degrees, and 5,695 professional degrees.<ref name="Degrees">{{cite web |title=Degrees Awarded |url=https://oir.harvard.edu/fact-book/degrees-awarded-summary |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210728204157/https://oir.harvard.edu/fact-book/degrees-awarded-summary |archive-date=July 28, 2021 |access-date=December 13, 2019 |website=harvard.edu |publisher=Office of Institutional Research, Harvard University |language=en-US}}</ref>

[[Harvard College]], the four-year, full-time undergraduate program, has a [[liberal arts education|liberal arts and sciences]] focus.<ref name="Carnegie" /><ref name = "liberal"/> To graduate in the usual four years, undergraduates normally take four courses per semester.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science Degrees |url=https://handbook.fas.harvard.edu/book/bachelor-arts-and-bachelor-science-degrees |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191207214304/https://handbook.fas.harvard.edu/book/bachelor-arts-and-bachelor-science-degrees |archive-date=December 7, 2019 |access-date=December 8, 2019 |website=college.harvard.edu |publisher=Harvard College |language=en-US}}</ref>
In most majors, an honors degree requires advanced coursework and a senior thesis.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k69286&pageid=icb.page343095|archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20101205233358/http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k69286&pageid=icb.page343095|archive-date=December 5, 2010|title=Academic Information: The Concentration Requirement|work=Handbook for Students|publisher=Harvard College|access-date=August 28, 2010}}</ref>

Though some introductory courses have large enrollments, the median class size is 12 students.<ref>{{cite web |title=How large are classes? |url=https://college.harvard.edu/resources/faq/how-large-are-classes |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414135247/https://college.harvard.edu/resources/faq/how-large-are-classes |archive-date=April 14, 2021 |access-date=December 14, 2019 |website=harvard.edu |publisher=Harvard College |language=en-US}}</ref>
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The [[Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences|Faculty of Arts and Sciences]], with an academic staff of 1,211 as of 2019, is the largest Harvard faculty, and has primary responsibility for instruction in [[Harvard College]], the [[Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences|Graduate School of Arts and Sciences]], the [[Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences|John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS)]], and the [[Harvard Division of Continuing Education|Division of Continuing Education]], which includes [[Harvard Summer School]] and [[Harvard Extension School]]. There are nine other graduate and professional faculties and a faculty attacked to the [[Harvard Radcliffe Institute]].

There are four Harvard joint programs with [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]], which include the [[Harvard–MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology]], the [[Broad Institute]], [[The Observatory of Economic Complexity]], and [[edX]].