unitid 166027 · Cambridge, MA · private nonprofit 4-year · city (midsize)
Harvard University
Private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US
- founded
- 1636
- enrollment 2023
- 37,613
- predominant degree
- Bachelor's
- website
- harvard.edu
- motto
- “Veritas”
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636, and named Harvard College in 1639 in honor of its first benefactor, Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. Its influence, wealth, and rankings have made it one of the most prestigious universities in the world. wikipedia rev 1363304232 ↗
scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within private nonprofit 4-years
The record
admission rate
4%
0th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
undergraduates
7,601
97th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
Pell share
16%
undergrads on Pell grants
14th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
completion
98%
finish within 150% time
98th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
sticker cost / yr
$85,540
96th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
avg net price / yr
$19,066
after aid, aided students
32nd pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
median earnings, 10 yr
$101,817
after entry, Title IV students
98th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
median grad debt
$14,000
8th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
what families actually pay
Cost
Sticker price is a fiction for most families — net price is what aided students pay after grants, by family income.
Average net price by family income, 2023–24 aid cohort
Families earning under $30k paid $8,697 per year after aid.
Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of private nonprofit 4-years (all incomes).
Who enrolls, by family income
- 0-30k40%
- 30-48k23%
- 48-75k14%
- 75-110k4%
- 110k+20%
- Median family income
- $33,066
- First-generation students
- 26%
- In-state tuition & fees
- $61,676
earnings · debt · programs
Outcomes
Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid
Ten years out, the median graduate earns 7.3× the median graduate debt.
Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.
What programs pay — top fields of study
| program | grads | earn 5 yr | debt |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business Administration, Management and Operations. | 877 | $119,724 | — |
| Law. | 570 | $250,647 | — |
| Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research. | 505 | — | — |
| Public Health. | 400 | $204,275 | — |
| Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods. | 393 | — | — |
| Public Administration. | 374 | $140,456 | — |
| Economics. | 258 | $161,251 | $6,617 |
| Public Policy Analysis. | 232 | $134,992 | — |
| Sustainability Studies. | 192 | — | — |
| Social Sciences, General. | 189 | $76,293 | $19,937 |
| Computer Science. | 183 | $219,550 | — |
| Legal Research and Advanced Professional Studies. | 179 | — | — |
— is privacy suppression at small programs, never zero. Earnings are median, 5 years after completing.
annual scorecard files, 1996–2026
Trajectory
Line breaks are years where the measure wasn't collected — a gap is not a zero.
Admission rate
Price per year
- sticker
- net
Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry
Undergraduates
wikidata · 25,117 people recorded
Memory
Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
Field fingerprint — share of recorded alumni by field
Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade
People without a recorded gender are excluded; decades with fewer than 5 recorded alumni are dropped.
Wikipedia attention
monthly article views since 2015
most recorded occupationsuniversity teacher (4,397) · researcher (3,550) · writer (2,173) · politician (1,724) · historian (1,332) · economist (1,231) · journalist (1,180) · lawyer (1,116)
Nobel laureates who studied here
- Theodore Roosevelt Peace 1906
- Theodore William Richards Chemistry 1914
- George Minot Medicine 1934
- William P. Murphy Medicine 1934
- Edward Adelbert Doisy Medicine 1943
- Percy Williams Bridgman Physics 1946
- James Batcheller Sumner Chemistry 1946
- T. S. Eliot Literature 1948
- Ralph Bunche Peace 1950
- Edward Mills Purcell Physics 1952
- Thomas Huckle Weller Medicine 1954
- John Franklin Enders Medicine 1954
- Frederick Chapman Robbins Medicine 1954
- Charles Brenton Huggins Medicine 1966
- Robert S. Mulliken Chemistry 1966
- Paul Samuelson Economics 1970
- Christian B. Anfinsen Chemistry 1972
- William Howard Stein Chemistry 1972
- Wassily Leontief Economics 1973
- Henry Kissinger Peace 1973
- Ben Roy Mottelson Physics 1975
- Daniel Carleton Gajdusek Medicine 1976
- John Hasbrouck Van Vleck Physics 1977
- Bertil Ohlin Economics 1977
- Philip W. Anderson Physics 1977
- Sheldon Glashow Physics 1979
- Walter Gilbert Chemistry 1980
- George Davis Snell Medicine 1980
- Nicolaas Bloembergen Physics 1981
- Roald Hoffmann Chemistry 1981
- James Tobin Economics 1981
- Kenneth G. Wilson Physics 1982
- Jerome Karle Chemistry 1985
- Dudley R. Herschbach Chemistry 1986
- Robert Solow Economics 1987
- Jean-Marie Lehn Chemistry 1987
- Donald J. Cram Chemistry 1987
- George H. Hitchings Medicine 1988
- J. Michael Bishop Medicine 1989
- Harold E. Varmus Medicine 1989
- E. Donnall Thomas Medicine 1990
- Clark Gregg Economics 1990
- Joseph Murray Medicine 1990
- Joseph Hooton Taylor Physics 1993
- Shimon Peres Peace 1994
- David Lee Physics 1996
- Robert C. Merton Economics 1997
- Walter Kohn Chemistry 1998
- Eric Kandel Medicine 2000
- Karl Barry Sharpless Chemistry 2001
- William Standish Knowles Chemistry 2001
- Ryōji Noyori Chemistry 2001
- Michael Spence Economics 2001
- H. Robert Horvitz Medicine 2002
- Vernon L. Smith Economics 2002
- David Gross Physics 2004
- Hugh David Politzer Physics 2004
- Thomas Schelling Economics 2005
- Roy J. Glauber Physics 2005
- Richard R. Schrock Chemistry 2005
- Roger D. Kornberg Chemistry 2006
- Craig Mello Medicine 2006
- Mario Capecchi Medicine 2007
- Leonid Hurwicz Economics 2007
- Roger Myerson Economics 2007
- Eric Maskin Economics 2007
- Al Gore Peace 2007
- Roger Y. Tsien Chemistry 2008
- Martin Chalfie Chemistry 2008
- Q76 Peace 2009
- Thomas A. Steitz Chemistry 2009
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Peace 2011
- Brian Schmidt Physics 2011
- Adam Riess Physics 2011
- Saul Perlmutter Physics 2011
- Thomas J. Sargent Economics 2011
- Ralph Steinman Medicine 2011
- Christopher A. Sims Economics 2011
- Lloyd Shapley Economics 2012
- David J. Wineland Physics 2012
- James Rothman Medicine 2013
- Thomas C. Südhof Medicine 2013
- Martin Karplus Chemistry 2013
- George Smith Chemistry 2018
- Michael Kremer Economics 2019
- Abhijit Banerjee Economics 2019
- Gregg L. Semenza Medicine 2019
- Robert B. Wilson Economics 2020
- Jennifer Doudna Chemistry 2020
- Karl Barry Sharpless Chemistry 2022
- Ben Bernanke Economics 2022
- Carolyn Bertozzi Chemistry 2022
- Moungi Bawendi Chemistry 2023
- Gary Ruvkun Medicine 2024
- Philippe Aghion Economics 2025
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279 wikis · Public domain
John F. Kennedy
250 wikis · Public domain
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
245 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Bill Gates
242 wikis · CC BY 4.0
Theodore Roosevelt
192 wikis · Public domain
Noam Chomsky
188 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
John Adams
187 wikis · Public domain
Mark Zuckerberg
168 wikis · CC BY 2.0
John Quincy Adams
165 wikis · Public domain
Helen Keller
164 wikis · Public domain
T. S. Eliot
159 wikis · Public domain
Ralph Waldo Emerson
155 wikis · Public domain
Ban Ki-moon
153 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
Judy Garland
151 wikis · Public domain
Benazir Bhutto
150 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Henry David Thoreau
144 wikis · Public domain
Henry Kissinger
144 wikis · Public domain
Richard Stallman
139 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Rutherford B. Hayes
138 wikis · Public domain
Natalie Portman
136 wikis · CC BY 4.0
Michelle Obama
135 wikis · Public domain
Al Gore
133 wikis · Public domain
Robert Oppenheimer
129 wikis · Public domain
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built 2026-07-17
Provenance
- U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, 2026-06 release. Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Suppressed values are null, never imputed.
- Annual Scorecard files 1996-2026. A null in early years usually means the measure was not yet collected, not zero.
- Coordinates and locale describe the campus address, not where students live.
- Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
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- Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1363304232), CC BY-SA 4.0.