Harvard's Office of Career Services

HARVARD COLLEGE & GSAS STUDENTS - WHO ARE THEY?


Harvard students are LEADERS


  • Harvard undergraduate students organize and lead over 300 official student organizations focusing on the arts, business, journalism, government, diversity, and public service.
    • The Harvard Crimson is the oldest published daily college newspaper in the United States, with a staff of 100 students.
    • Harvard Student Agencies is the largest student-run corporation in the world, consisting of nine different agencies with a $6 million budget.
  • Harvard has the largest Division I athletic program in the country with 1,500 students participating in 41 varsity-level teams each year.
  • Harvard College has over 800 alumni/ae currently in CEO or executive director positions.

LEADING AREAS OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDY

 

Harvard students are GLOBALLY FOCUSED


  • Nearly 40% of Harvard undergraduate students polled traveled abroad last summer, visiting 124 different countries for work, study, personal enrichment, or volunteer positions.
  • Over 70 different languages are studied at Harvard.
  • 9% of Harvard undergraduate students hail from outside the United States.

Harvard students are TOP PERFORMERS


Over 6,600 of the brightest undergraduate students in the world attend Harvard College.
  • The middle 50% of enrolled students have SAT verbal scores in the 700-800 range, SAT math scores in the 700-790 range, and combined scores of 1400-1580.
  • 96% of accepted students were in the top 10% of their high school class.
  • Harvard's acceptance rate, less than 10%, is one of the most selective in the country.

Harvard Students are DIVERSE

Undergraduate: Percentage by Ethnicity

Undergraduate: Percentage by Gender

MASTER'S AND PHD STUDENTS

The Graduate School of Arts & Sciences offers degrees in more than 50 fields, including engineering, chemistry, physics, biology, economics, psychology, and East Asian, Russian, and Middle Eastern studies. A third of the graduates are international students, from over 90 countries. Harvard graduate students demonstrate extremely high levels of analytic, research, problem-solving, writing, critical thinking, and communication skills and are sought after by top management consulting, financial, marketing, biotech, and technology companies.

Graduate: International Students by Region

 

Graduate: Percentage by Gender