Started in 1636, older than the calculus and with financial endowment ($39.2 Billion) larger than half of the world’s economies, the name Harvard is synonymous as the institution of excellence and academic grooming of highest caliber. Harvard University's notable alumni list contains eight U.S. presidents like John F. Kennedy, Barack Obama, 359 Rhodes Scholars, 242 Marshall Scholars, and elite businessmen and multimillionaire like Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg.
As an Ivy League college, a term shared by Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth University, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, and Yale University, Harvard University is known for high academic quality and attracts students from all around the world for legit reasons.
Harvard University's mascot is the person the university was named after, John Harvard, and their color is crimson. The university shows the world what top notch education looks like. Not only education, the university makes sure that its students have overall growth and find success in whatever field they choose for themselves. This is evident from the fact that there are over 100 Olympic Medals that its alumni and students have won till now. Even their motto of "Veritas" shows the development that Harvard University has shown over centuries with having become more secular and diverse.