What are Harvards engineering and science programs like?
Harvard is experiencing tremendous expansion within engineering and the sciences. Our unsurpassed facilities provide dozens of labs (many interconnected), clusters, and programs designed to encourage scientists to cut across boundaries and to collaborate. In the past year alone, Harvard faculty members have invented new types of lasers, stopped light in its tracks, created nanowires one-thousandth the width of a human hair, won a host of prestigious awards, and received major government and industry grants. Our graduates have gone on to lead Fortune 500 companies, run world-class labs, and teach the next generation of researchers, professionals, and technologists. Harvard caters to “renaissance” thinkers who want to blend a rigorous approach to science and engineering with a broader liberal arts education. Students tackle technical, yet socially relevant challenges through coursework- solving the University’s parking space problems or modeling college enrollment trends – and by doing r
