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	Skip to primary navigation Harvard by the Numbers Harvard by the Numbers September 1, 2008 As FAS dean Michael D. Smith illustrated with these figures, social sciences (economics, government, history, and so on) attract the largest number of College concentrators… Green Gauge November 1, 2007 The ever-useful Harvard University Fact Book (published annually by the Office of Budgets, Financial Planning, and Institutional Research, and… Faculty for Freshman Seminars May 1, 2007 Ungraded freshmen seminars, introduced in 1959, were intended to introduce new College students to faculty members and to a… Student Financial Assistance: FY 2005 March 1, 2007 Financial support for degree-candidate students amounts to a half-billion-dollar-plus commitment by the University. These data, from fiscal year… Increasingly Electronic Libraries January 1, 2007 From 1998 through 2005, University library holdings increased by 1.62 million volumes—11.6 percent. But during the same period, the number… Gifts and Endowments, 2005 September 1, 2006 The rich get richer, at least as measured by annual giving to Harvard’s schools, compared to their existing endowments, as shown in… Harvard College Enrollment by Ethnicity and Year July 1, 2006 Source: Harvard Office of Budgets, Financial Planning, and Institutional… The Schools’ Size May 1, 2006 Harvard’s schools vary not only in their mission and in the composition of their faculties and student bodies, but also in financial… Capital Costs March 1, 2006 The dimensions of Harvard’s current building boom—readily obvious to sidewalk superintendents along Memorial Drive at Western… Growth Spurt, Growing Pains January 1, 2006 From 603 full, associate, and assistant professors in 1999, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has grown to 700 as of this January—its… Harvard Business School Class of… November 1, 2005 Data from an annually updated Harvard Business School case comparing 1949 and current-year graduates, by professors of business… Women in the Sciences September 1, 2005 In its report issued in May, the University’s Task Force on Women in Science and Engineering dramatically highlighted the "leaky… Where the Students Are July 1, 2005 At each Commencement, Harvard confers 6,500 or so degrees, on everyone from College students who have navigated their undergraduate years to… Building Boom May 1, 2005 The University is on a building boom of sorts. The campus was transformed in the post-World War II era, extending itself outward and upward in… Faculty Composition March 1, 2005 Harvard’s faculty consists of both tenured professors and "ladder faculty" (associate and assistant professors), and other teaching… 1 2 next last

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