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Die Luft der Freiheit weht meaning The wind of Freedom blows
Campus Area:
380 acres
8180 acres
Field:
Higher Education, Research
Higher Education, Research
School color:
Crimson
Cardinal
Famous Alumni:
Franklin Roosevelt, John F Kennedy, T.S. Elliot, John Adams etc.
Jim Allchin, Andrew Grove, Larry Page, Herbert Hoover, Condoleeza Rice.
Website:
www.harvard.edu
www.stanford.edu
Mascot:
John Harvard
Cardinal
Graduates:
12,424
8,201
Undergraduates:
6,715
6689
Endowment:
US $34.9 billion
US $ 17.2 Billion
Staff:
2,497 non-medical, 10,674 medical
1807
Harvard and Stanford are both top Universities in America. The former lies on the East coast while the latter is on the West Coastof USA.
Harvard University is the leading institution of higher learning located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA while Stanford University is located in Stanford, CA, USA. Both are epitomes of education today and have produced numerous known leaders and businessmen of the world.
Harvard University was founded in 1639 by John Harvard. In the 17th century, Harvard University established the Indian College in order to educate Native Americans, but it was not a success and disappeared by 1693. Between 1800 and 1870 a transformation of Harvard occurred which E. Digby Baltzell calls "privatization”. During this period, Harvard experienced unparalleled growth that put it into a different category from other colleges. Ronald Story notes in 1850, Harvard's total assets were "five times that of Amherst and Williams combined, and three times that of Yale.... By 1850, it was a genuine university, 'unequalled in facilities”. Ever since that there has been no looking back and today, Harvard is considered one of the premier centers of higher learning in the world.
Stanford University dates to the late 19th Century and was founded by a former Governor of California in memory of his son who perished at a young age. Stanford University has become the leading University and Research Facility on the West Coast of America, and is also recognized as one of the top 20 Universities in the world. Stanford University has Undergraduate, Graduate, Law, Medicine, and other degree programs for students.
Harvard University has schools of Arts & Sciences, Engineering & Applied Sciences, a Business School, Divinity School, School of Government, as well as Medical and Legal departments. It has programs ranging from Architecture, Biophysics, Business Economics to forestry. There are extentive programs available under its research schools also.
Stanford University has both graduate and undergraduate programs in Earth Science, Engineering, Humanities & Science, Education, Business, Medical and Law. Stanford also has a huge variety of programs. Harvard Business School is the most respected institution for business management, investment studies and .market research in the country. The Stanford School of Engineering is one of the best institutions for research and development in the country, though most associate Standord with IT development excellence at the academic level.
Stanford currently has 1807 faculty members with the team including Nobel laureates and Pulitzer Prize winners. The Stanford faculty is divided as follows in various Schools:
Total Faculty 1,807* Members of Academic Council 1,418 Percentages are rounded Graduate School of Business 96 (5%) School of Earth Sciences 45 (2%) School of Education 47 (3%) School of Engineering 231 (13%) School of Humanities and Sciences 524 (29%) School of Law 48 (3%) School of Medicine 766 (42%) Other:(SLAC, FSI, Independent Labs) 50 (3%)
Harvard has 2,497 faculty members in the non-medical devision and 10,674 medical faculty.
The Harvard University Library is considered to be the largest and most extensive research library in the world
. For housing at Harvard, Thirteen Houses make up the Harvard-Radcliffe House system. Twelve are residences for sophomores, juniors, and seniors. (Undergraduates spend their first year in dormitories in or near Harvard Yard.) A 13th House is a center for graduate students, nonresident undergraduates, and undergraduates living in small cooperative Houses (in which students prepare their own meals and do household chores in exchange for reduced room and board). Harvard prides itself at its publications including the Harvard University Gazette. Harvard University is also home to many superior examples of American architecture including the Massachusetts Hall and The John Harvard Statue and some museums.
The Stanford University Library is equally good and also prides itself on the Stanford University Press. The Stanford University comprises of extensive computer networking linking more than 1,50,000 computers. The undergraduate housing system at stanford includes 78 very diverse residential facilities, including academic-focus, language and culture, and cross-cultural houses; student-managed row-type houses; apartments; suites; and traditional residence halls. In 2006, Stanford Dining won the Ivy Award for Excellence in Dining. It serves about 3,250,000 meals annually. There are 40 recognized religious organizations on the Stanford campus. The Stanford Lively Arts Foundation brings the theatre dimension to student life. Stanford has associations with more than 70 charitable and voluntary organizations for public service work for students. Stanford maintains one million gross feet of indoor facilities and 94 acres of outdoor fields. Among Stanford's facilities are the 50,000-seat Stanford Stadium, the 6,786-yard Stanford Golf Course; the 7,000-seat Maples Pavilion, with one of the finest basketball surfaces in the world; the 4,000-seat Sunken Diamond; the 14-court Taube Family Tennis Stadium; and the the 2,500-seat, four-pool Avery Aquatic Complex.
At Stanford, the annual football game against the University of California Berkeley Golden Bears is regarded the Big Game. It is preceded by Gaieties, a student-produced musical follies. Stanford has won the Director's Cup, which honors the most successful program in NCAA Division I sports for the last 12 years. In 2005-06, Stanford won three national team championships and had 13 teams in the top five and 20 in the top 10. Forty-two athletes and coaches also represented Stanford at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. Stanford offers about 300 athletic scholarships. About 800 students participate in intercollegiate sports.
Harvard has excelled in sports like football, basketball, baseball, and soccer and has produced many world class players like Jenifer Boterril, Julie chu and Jamie Hagerman.
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I attended Harvard as an undergrad and Stanford as a graduate student. I don't buy the claim that either institution surpasses the other in terms of academic or intellectual opportunities, or in the strength of its students. The two do differ, however, in ways that seem obvious but which warrant attention. Harvard is older and is infused (even now) with the Anglophilia the characterized much of late 19th and early 20th century USA. This has been watered down some, but it is still pervasive: the House System ( a Disneyesque recreation of Oxford and Cambridge colleges), "Masters Open Houses," the Head of the Charles, Gentlemen's Final clubs, etc. This Anglophilia has its charms but can also be alienating. Stanford, on the other hand, is destinctively more "American," --in good and bad senses. It is less tradition bound and thus seems to provide greater freedom for personal growth and experience. But a preference for the practical over the intellectual also characterizes the campus
