University of Harvard

Harvard's athletic teams compete in the Ivy League, and every football season ends with "The Game," an annual matchup between storied rivals Harvard and Yale. At Harvard, on-campus residential housing is an integral part of student life. Freshmen live around the Harvard Yard at the center of campus, after which they are placed in one of 12 undergraduate houses for their remaining three years. Although they are no longer recognized by the university as official student groups, the eight all-male "final clubs" serve as social organizations for some undergraduate students; Harvard also has five female clubs.

Harvard offers unparalleled resources to the University community, including libraries, laboratories, museums, and research centers to support scholarly work in nearly any field or discipline. The Harvard student experience is characterized by unlimited possibilities. Opportunities abound inside the classroom and out, with over 8,000 courses from over 100 departments and countless research programs. Here, undergraduate students have access to almost every extracurricular program imaginable and the largest Division 1 Athletics Program in the country. And after graduation, students join the Harvard Alumni Association, which includes nearly 360,000 alumni worldwide.

The Harvard Library—the largest academic library in the world—includes 18.9 million volumes, 174,000 serial titles, an estimated 400 million manuscript items, 10 million photographs, 56 million archived web pages, and 5.4 terabytes of born-digital archives and manuscripts. Access to this rich collection is provided by nearly 1,000 library staff members who operate more than 70 separate library units. The Harvard University Archives is the oldest and one of the largest institutional academic archives in the nation.

Careers at Harvard can be linear—promotions that follow a traditional sequence in a single department—or significantly less traditional. Once here, you can readily identify internal opportunities that are well-suited to your experience, skills, and talents.

The most popular training and education opportunities include:

• The Center for Workplace Development (CWD), which provides training opportunities for members of the Harvard community.
• Tuition Assistance Plan (TAP) that encourages employees to pursue educational opportunities. Whether you want to enhance your current skill set or earn a degree, TAP can help.