HARVARD UNIVERSITY GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT: AN OVERVIEW

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WORLD WHOEVER YOU ARE, WHEREVER YOU ARE FROM, HARVARD WELCOMES YOU.

Harvard’s global work is a dazzling kaleidoscope, the result of a simple strategy for engagement with the world: to attract talented students and faculty, whatever part of the world they might come from, and to empower them to pursue their teaching and research interests, wherever around the world they might lead.

Dozens of Harvard research centers cross Meanwhile, scholars and students from all over the disciplinary boundaries in the search for broad world come to Harvard by the thousands, vastly knowledge that is firmly grounded in local contexts, enriching the University’s teaching and research. from the University’s Center for African Studies, From the Law School to the Graduate School of to the Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Education to the Dental School, no part of Harvard Democratic Governance and Innovation, to lacks global exposure: Nearly twenty-five percent the Center for the Study of World Religions at of Harvard’s students come from outside the the . Many academic United States, and Harvard consistently hosts more departments have an inherently international international scholars than any other American mission, including Global Health and Population university. The offers study in the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, abroad courses in more than twenty locations, from and South Asian Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Santo Domingo to Seoul, and the Radcliffe Institute Sciences. Scientists and engineers from the routinely counts visitors from every continent Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied among its fellows. Sciences, as well as researchers at the , the Harvard , and Harvard faculty and students drive its global the Graduate School of Design, carry out work activity. Working through schools, centers, that is global by its very nature, and enhanced by and a growing network of regional offices, and numerous collaborations with international partners collaborating with peers across the University from Tokyo to Dubai and Santiago to Mumbai. Small and around the world, Harvard scholars are wonder that in 2015–16, Harvard students, faculty, advancing the frontiers of knowledge in service and staff traveled to more than 160 countries. to humanity: One Harvard, One World.

This brochure provides just a sample of Harvard’s activity worldwide. We invite you to explore, learn, and be inspired. Find more at worldwide.harvard.edu. Deans from 6 of HarvardX: Worldwide Learning HARVARD AROUND THE WORLD Harvard’s 12 Online and Beyond degree granting schools • 4 million+ HarvardX course registrations were born outside SPOTLIGHT: HARVARD GLOBAL INSTITUTE IN CHINA from 1.95 million+ unique users worldwide STUDENTS STUDENTS of the U.S. The Harvard Global Institute (HGI) supports University-wide research STUDENTS 955 37 addressing global challenges that cross disciplinary boundaries and bring Harvard faculty and students together with international colleagues to focus 691 ALUMNI ALUMNI on salient issues with broad relevance. HGI currently funds seven innovative • 1.28 million+ unique international HarvardX ALUMNI 20,038 313 projects anchored in China. Among current grantees, Naomi E. Pierce, Hessel Professor of Biology and Curator of Lepidoptera in the Faculty of users registered for at least one course 5,650 STUDENTS Arts and Sciences, is developing an innovative performance indicator for Harvard hosts more biodiversity protection in Chinese Nature Reserves to be adapted around the As of December 12, 2016 1,608 world. Another project includes a team of six professors across three ALUMNI schools, led by Peter Huybers, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences international and of Environmental Science and Engineering, Faculty of Arts and Sciences 13,539 & Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, in an investigation of climate change and “health weather” in China. scholars Center for Hellenic Richard Rogers House HBS Europe Studies in Greece at Wimbledon–GSD Research Center STUDENTS than any other university Nafplion, Greece Wimbledon, U.K. Paris, France Est. 2008 Languages in the United States. Est. 2016 Est. 2003 334 ALUMNI HBS Japan Source: Institute of International Education Research Center STUDENTS 3,317 Harvard Tokyo, Japan • Over 90 languages are offered at Harvard Center Shanghai Est. 2002 406 Source: Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Arts and Humanities Division Center for Italian Shanghai, China South Asia ALUMNI Renaissance Studies HBS Middle East Est. 2010 and North Africa Institute , Research Center Office* Est. 1959 2,796 Istanbul, Turkey Delhi, India Center for Middle HBS Asia–Pacific • Between 75% and 80% of undergraduates Est. 2013 Expected in 2017 55% of Harvard Business Eastern Studies Research Center Tunisia Office Hong Kong take at least one language course in their School cases produced in Tunis, Tunisia Est. 1999 Est. 2016 STUDENTS studies at Harvard Source: Institutional Research Office 2015–2016 Rockefeller Center 256 for Latin American HMS Center for STUDENTS SPOTLIGHT: TECHNOLOGY FOR ALUMNI were global in nature. Studies Office Global Health Mexico City, Mexico 488 AFRICAN ECONOMIC GROWTH 3,329 Delivery–Dubai Est. 2013 Dubai, UAE ALUMNI Calestous Juma, Professor of the Practice of Est. 2015 International Development, Harvard Kennedy SPOTLIGHT: STUDENT FIELD 6,129 School of Government RESEARCH IN SOUTH ASIA SPOTLIGHT: TOWARD Juma co-chairs a panel appointed by African HBS India The Harvard University South Asia Institute Union Chairperson, Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini- (SAI) leads interdisciplinary teaching and IMPROVING AIR QUALITY Africa Academy Research Center Zuma, to develop a strategy for integrating research programs that deeply engage for Public Health Est. 2006 IN AMAZONIA emerging technologies into African economies. faculty and students in studying global David Rockefeller Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Harvard T.H. Chan The widespread use and impact of mobile issues relevant to South Asia. Among its Scot T. Martin, Gordon McKay Professor, Center for Latin Est. 1999 School of Public Health phones across Africa—transforming the many academic programs, SAI supports International Students at Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied American Studies India Center STUDENTS Sciences (SEAS) and Department of Brazil Office telecommunications sector and many Harvard students to travel to South Asia for Harvard College International Experiences Botswana–Harvard Est. 2016 Earth and Planetary Sciences, Faculty Est. 2006 economies—inspired African leaders to research, internships and language study. Partnership 183 of Arts and Sciences shift thinking about economic development Mumbai, India Recent student research has included: HBS Latin America ALUMNI 6000 International Enrollment % International 24% by focusing first on the use of existing Gaborone, Botswana Research Center • Ethnic minority representation in Traveled through  The SEAS-Amazonas State University (UEA) technologies. Using mobile phone integration Est. 1996 Air Quality Study in Manaus, Brazil is a Est. 2015 Sri Lankan history textbooks 2,828 8% a student  as a model, Juma’s high-level panel will aim (Sarani Jayawardena, Harvard College ’17) organization trip groundbreaking examination of air quality São Paulo, Brazil to identify existing technologies, then in tropical urban regions. Students at SEAS undertake research to integrate them into the • Oral and nutritional health of women and 4500 18% Center for African Studies 18% and UEA are developing a sensor network to economy. This approach underlies the African children in Mumbai, India (Hannah Yoo, South Africa Office 46% monitor air quality throughout Manaus. Once Union’s 10-year Science, Technology and Harvard School of Dental Medicine ’18) Studied Johannesburg, South Africa completed, sensor data will feed live across Innovation for Africa Strategy (STISA–2024) • The shipbreaking industry—dismantling 2,136 abroad a mobile network, available to aggregate, Est. 2016 HBS Latin America which African presidents adopted in 2014. the world’s defunct merchant and 3000 12% College students analyze, and act upon quickly, while providing passenger vessels—in Chittagong, students and faculty from both universities Research Center traveled in the , Argentina Bangladesh (Marisa Houlahan, Participated in  with a variety of research opportunities. Harvard College ’17) 2015–2016 Est. 2000 an internship 1500 6% Academic Year abroad 33% NUMBER OF INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS INTERNATIONAL NUMBER OF KEY David Rockefeller ENROLLMENT TOTAL % OF INTERNATIONAL Traveled for 0 0% Center for ’00 ’01 ’02 ’03 ’04 ’05 ’06 ’07 ’08 ’09 ’10 ’11 ’12 ’13 ’14 ’15 ’16 research Latin American Graduate School of Design Harvard Medical School Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health ACADEMIC YEAR Studies NOTES Regional Office *Office approved, pending finalization Santiago, Chile Traveled through Studied Participated in Traveled for University-wide Offices and Villa I Tatti Student enrollment as of fall 2016. Est. 2002 Source: School Registrars. International refers to students who are neither U.S. citizens nor permanent a studentSource: Harvard Office of Internationalabroad Education an internship research International alumni source: Harvard Alumni Association residents. Degree and certificate-seeking students only. Enrollment as of October 15th of each academic year. organization trip abroad “Our robust commitment to internationalism is not an incidental or dispensable accessory. It is integral to all we do, in the laboratory, in the classroom, in the conference hall, in the world.”

— President of Harvard University

Photo Credits Front Cover Students Statistics Andrew Dietrich, Fez, Morocco, 2007 International Students at Harvard Graph Jorge Abugaber, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2005 Source: School Registrars Jenna Louie, Dakar, Senegal, 2013 Prepared by Office of Institutional Research Hannibal Taubes, Seda County, Kham, 2009 and Office of the Vice Provost for Mariam Jalloul, Italy, 2016 International Affairs. Emily Bigelow, Rukungiri, Uganda, 2012 International refers to students who are neither U.S. citizens nor permanent residents. Photo Credits Back Cover Degree and certificate-seeking students only. Karen Villegas, 2013 Enrollment as of October 15th of each Diana Im, 2014 academic year. Mark C. Elliott, India, 2017 Camilla Gibson, France, 2015 Christine Shen, China, 2012 Victoria Sung, Mongolia, 2007

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