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Harvard University, founded in 1636 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. The university serves approximately 18,000 degree candidates and 13,000 extension students. More than 12,000 students are in graduate programs. Faculty has included over 40 Nobel Prize laureates. Graduates include several U.S. presidents, including John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and John F. Kennedy. Other alumni include Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, William James, and Louis Agassiz. Harvard University includes business, divinity, education, engineering, law, medical, public health, and other colleges. It also includes the John F. Kennedy School of Government and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The university had a fiscal year 2007 endowment of over $34 billion. Harvard University is named for minister John Harvard, who left half his estate to the institution in 1638.
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