Harvard University
Harvard University admitted 3.6% of applicants. Students who submitted scores typically had 1510–1580 on the SAT. Its average net price after aid was $19,148 a year. Within six years, 97% of first-time, full-time students graduated.
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Admissions
- Admission rate
- 3.6%
- SAT/ACT scores
- Required
- SAT middle 50%
- 1510–1580
- ACT middle 50%
- 34–36
Cost
- Cost of attendance, before aid
- $89,279 a year
- Average net price after aid
- $19,148 a year
- Net price for families earning under $30,000
- $2,542 a year
- Tuition and fees
- $64,796 a year
Outcomes
- Graduation rate (within 6 years)
- 97%
- Students who return for a second year
- 98%
- Median earnings 10 years after starting
- $121,957 a year
- Median debt at graduation
- $17,559
Students
- Undergraduates
- 7,601
- Undergraduates with a Pell Grant
- 20%
- Student-faculty ratio
- 7 to 1
- Campus setting
- City
Most common fields of study
Share of the degrees the college awarded, by field.
- Social sciences
- 27%
- Biological and biomedical sciences
- 13%
- Mathematics and statistics
- 11%
- Computer and information sciences
- 10%
- History
- 7%
Colleges with similar selectivity
Closest by admission rate and SAT scores.
- Stanford University CA · 3.6% admitted
- Columbia University in the City of New York NY · 4% admitted
- University of Chicago IL · 4.5% admitted
- Princeton University NJ · 4.6% admitted
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA · 4.5% admitted
- Brown University RI · 5.4% admitted
More colleges in Massachusetts
- University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA · 60% admitted
- Boston University MA · 11% admitted
- Northeastern University MA · 5.2% admitted
- University of Massachusetts-Boston MA · 84% admitted
- University of Massachusetts-Lowell MA · 83% admitted
- Boston College MA · 16% admitted
- Bridgewater State University MA · 88% admitted
- Berklee College of Music MA · 44% admitted
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Source: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard, most recent institution-level data (October 2026 release). Admission figures are reported by the college; check its website for current requirements.