Graduate & Professional Schools

Updates and features from Harvard’s graduate schools, including Law, Business, Medicine, and others.

Ronny Chieng is Harvard’s Class Day Speaker

The comedian, actor, and The Daily Show correspondent will address the 2026 College graduating class on May 27.

by Schuyler Velasco

2020 GSAS Centennial Medalists

The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences’ honorands

Harvard professional schools move online, endowment distribution decreased

…and the endowment distribution is decreased, as the College completes its plans.

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard Graduate School of Design Class Day speaker Jenny Odell

Artist Jenny Odell speaks at the Graduate School of Design Class Day ceremony.

by Nell Porter-Brown

“To Heal and to Help”

Harvard medical- and dental-school graduates on the front lines of a worldwide crisis

by Lydialyle Gibson

“Disasters Sift out the Resilient”

At Harvard Business School’s virtual class day, a call for a new Marshall Plan

by Lydialyle Gibson

“The Work of the Public Health Leader Is the Work of the Herdsman”

Entering an era when “public health is everywhere”

by Matteo Wong

“Fear and Anger are the Essential Ingredients of Injustice”

At Harvard Law School, Bryan Stevenson on getting proximate to the powerless

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Harvard commencement degree conferral

During the pandemic, a downsized, online degree-conferral—and stern words about the war on free expression and Veritas

by John S. Rosenberg , Jacob Sweet

Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Honors Centennial Medalists

The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences honors four alumni whose contributions to society emerged from their study at Harvard.

Harvard Executive-Education Losses

An acute casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic  

by John S. Rosenberg