Harvard University Tops the US News and Word Report College Rankings

The leading rankings provider U.S. News and World Report recently released 2011’s college and university rankings.

The U.S. News –an American magazine and online university directory released lately the annual Best Colleges issue which provides trusted and straightforward rankings on the best universities. And as expected, the prominent private Ivy League university made it to the top –Harvard University.

Harvard University –which was founded on 1636 outwit other competing colleges with its world class academic and extra curricular excellence. Currently, Harvard has 11 principle academic units –ten faculties and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

The ten faculties oversee schools and divisions that offer courses and award academic degrees. The university has about 2,100 faculty members and more than 10,000 academic appointments in affiliated teaching hospitals.

The university has about 6,700 graduates and about 13,600 professional students. Harvard has more than 320,000, over 270,000 in the US, and nearly 50,000 in some 191 countries worldwide.

Undergraduate cost of study in Harvard is $33,696 including room, board and student service fee is $ 48,868. Financial aid package average nearly $41,000. Financial aid can come from grants, student loan, and employment.

Student services include non-remedial tutoring, women’s center, placement service, health service, health insurance. Remedial learning services include; writing, study skills, counseling services and more.

Course Major in Harvard ranges from Astronomy and Astrophysics, Classics and Classical Languages, African-American/Black Studies, Visual and Performing Arts, American Literature, Environmental Studies, Religious Studies, Psychology, Latin Language and Literature, Women’s Studies to Criticism and Conservation.

Students are also immersed in extra curricular activities and sports divided into two categories; the intercollegiate sports for men which includes; basketball, baseball, cross country, fencing, football, golf, ice hockey, and etc. While intercollegiate sports for women includes; ice hockey, lacrosse, skiing, swimming, tennis, volleyball and etc.