12 Facts About Harvard College

Harvard College is the undergraduate college of Harvard University, an Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Part of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard College is Harvard University's traditional undergraduate program, offering AB and SB degrees.

Harvard College students participate in more than 450 extracurricular organizationsand nearly all live on campus—first-year students in or near Harvard Yard, and upperclass students in community-oriented "houses".

Three years later, the college was renamed in honor of deceased Charlestown minister John Harvard who had bequeathed to the school his entire library and half of his monetary estate.

Currently, Harvard College is responsible for undergraduate admissions, advising, housing, student life, and athletics—generally all undergraduate matters except instruction, which is the purview of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

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The body known as the President and Fellows of Harvard College retains its traditional name despite having governance of the entire University.

Since the 1970s, Harvard College has been responsible for undergraduate matters for women, though women's Harvard College diplomas were countersigned by the President of Radcliffe until a final merger in 1999.

Harvard College ended its early admissions program in 2007, but for the class of 2016 and beyond, an early action program was reintroduced.

Harvard College has implemented more implicit bias training for its admissions staff in accordance with the court's recommendations.

In 1903, Harvard College Stadium introduced a new era into football with the first permanent reinforced concrete stadium of its kind in the country.

The Harvard College crew is typically considered to be one of the top teams in the country in rowing.

Harvard College was the first Ivy League school to win an NCAA Championship in a women's sport when its women's lacrosse team won in 1990.