'''Harvard-universiteit''' is 'n privateprivaat navorsingsuniversiteit in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]], [[Massachusetts]] in die [[Verenigde State]]. Die universiteit het ongeveer 6 000 voorgraadse en ongeveer 15 250 nagraadse studente. Harvard is in 1636 gestig en is vernoem na sy eerste weldoener, leraar John Harvard. Die universiteit is die Verenigde State se oudste instansie van hoër onderwys,<ref>{{cite book|first1=Frederick |last1=Rudolph|title=The American College and University|year=1961|page=3|isbn=0-8203-1285-1|publisher=University of Georgia Press}}</ref> en sy geskiedenis, invloed, en rykdom maak dit een van die wêreld se gesogste universiteite.<ref>{{cite book|title=Making Harvard Modern: The Rise of America's University|last1=Keller |first1=Morton|last2=Keller|first2=Phyllis|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=0-19-514457-0|quote=Harvard's professional schools... won world prestige of a sort rarely seen among social institutions. (...) Harvard's age, wealth, quality, and prestige may well shield it from any conceivable vicissitudes.|year=2001|pages=463–481}}
* {{Cite book|title=How Harvard Rules: Reason in the Service of Empire|quote=... [Harvard's] tremendous institutional power and prestige (...) Within the nation's (arguably) most prestigious institution of higher learning ...|chapter=Sexual Shakedown|pages=326–336|year=1989|publisher=South End Press|isbn=0-89608-284-9|editor1-first=John|last=Spaulding|first=Christina|editor-last=Trumpbour}}
* {{cite web |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-10/harvard-mit-ranked-most-prestigious-universities-study-reports.html|title=Harvard, MIT Ranked Most Prestigious Universities, Study Reports|author=David Altaner|publisher=Bloomberg|date=March 9, 2011|accessdate=March 1, 2012}}