Harvard,Oxford, Cambridge

Harvard, Cambridge, Oxford

The best Universities of the world

Harvard University

• Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1636.

• Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. It is also the first and oldest corpora-tion in North America.

Harvard University

• Harvard University is made up of ten schools including the Harvard Business, Law, and Medical Schools.

• Harvard has about 20,000 students.

• Harvard was named after John Harvard, its first benefactor, who bequeathed the College his library of four hundred books and £779 .

John Harvard

Harvard`s Library

• Harvard's original library was founded in 1638 with

a bequest of 400 books from John

Harvard.

John Harvard

• Now the university has more than 80 libraries with numerous special divisions. The largest university collection in the world, the libraries house more than 15 million volumes as well as papers, manuscripts, incunabula , prints, digital resources, and other materials.

Six presidents of the USA studied at Harvard:

(1877-81) (1901-1909)

(1933-1945) (1961-1963)

Cambridge and Oxford Universities

Cambridge University

• Cambridge is one of the best known towns in the world. It is famous for its university, which started during the 13 th century.

Cambridge University

• Today there are about 30 colleges.

• The oldest one is Peterhouse, which was founded in 1284.

Peterhouse college

Robinson College

The most recent

is Robinson College, which was opened in

1977.

• The most famous is King`s college, because of its magnificent chapel.

King`s college

Its choir of boys and under -graduates is well known all over the world.

• The Universities were only for men until 19 th century when the first women`s college was opened. Later the doors of colleges were opened to both men and women.

Nowadays almost all the colleges are mixed.

Every year thousands of students come to Cambridge from overseas to study English.

Oxford University

Oxford University

The first of Oxford`s colleges was founded in 1249. the university now has 35 colleges and about 13000 students, many of them from other countries.

• There were no women at Oxford until 1878. When the first women`s college Lady Margaret Hall, opened.
• Now most colleges are opened to men and women.

Lady Margaret Hall

Oxford University

• It is not easy to get a place at Oxford University to study for a degree.

• Outside the university there many smaller private colleges which offer less difficult courses and where it is easy to enter.

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