The mission of the Harvard Business School (HBS) is to educate leaders who make a difference in the world, and the study of leadership in global perspective is woven into the fabric of the School’s teaching and research. More than a third of HBS students are from outside the United States and, in recent years, 50% or more of the case studies written by HBS faculty members have focused on global companies or themes. Meanwhile, more than a dozen HBS student organizations have a global or international theme, and the School’s network of Global Research Centers and offices support faculty research and case writing, student experiences, and executive education across the globe.

• Nearly one third of HBS students are from outside the United States
• More than half of HBS faculty actively involved in international research or case writing
• The unique FIELD course takes all MBA students to an emerging market at the end of their first year for an immersive experience in which teams must develop a new product or service concept for a global partner organization.
• HBS and the Harvard Kennedy School offer a joint degree: Master’s of Business Administration and Master’s of Public Administration in International Development
• A network of nine HBS Global Research Centers and five offices support faculty case research and writing, student programs, and executive education.

Harvard College offers undergraduate students a broad education across numerous disciplines, and countless opportunities to pursue their research and educational interests around the world. In addition to classes that give all Harvard College students a sturdy grounding in key fields of study, Harvard College students can pursue intensive study in subjects ranging from East Asian Languages and Civilizations to Biology to Slavic Languages and Literature. In addition, Harvard College is committed to meeting the financial needs of all its admitted students, and international students are eligible for the same financial aid as U.S. students.

• 12% of Harvard College students are from outside the United States
• Harvard Summer School offers more than 20 courses each year taught outside the United States by Harvard faculty
• Harvard Office of International Education helps students plan experiences around the world during the regular academic term, and over the summer.
• International and area studies centers, which support a variety of academic programs for faculty and students, offer students opportunities to study, conduct research, and attain jobs or internships worldwide.

Harvard’s Division of Continuing Education (DCE) extends the University’s teaching to every type of adult learner in every corner of the world. DCE students come from every culture, career background, and time zone, and range in age from 18 to 89. Offering degree programs, open enrollment courses that are both on-campus and online, DCE is at the forefront of Harvard’s efforts to reach the widest possible range of students across the globe.

• 13% of degree students are from outside the United States
• Offers Master’s of Liberal Arts, International Relations
• Offers a mix of on-campus, online, and hybrid courses
• Offers summer courses, including courses for high school students and study abroad courses, for both Harvard and non-Harvard students
• Offers graduate certificate programs in International Relations, International Security, Nuclear Deterrence, and Religions of the World

The Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM) aims to develop and foster a community of global leaders who will advance oral and systemic health. HSDM faculty members are world leaders in the study and practice of dental medicine. Meanwhile, HSDM offers its students a variety of public health opportunities around Boston and across the globe, from working with Cambridge-based Dentists for Humanity to provide dental care to underserved populations worldwide, to pursuing international community-health opportunities during the later years of the DMD program. HSDM aims to integrate dentistry and medicine, and to train dental researchers and practitioners who will have a positive impact on oral health around the world.

The Graduate School of Design (GSD) aims to educate students who will create a more beautiful, just, and coherent world through the study of the built environment. Nearly half of GSD students some from outside the United States and its diverse, world-class faculty is comprised of scholars and practitioners from every continent. A global approach to learning and to practice is at the heart of a GSD education, and essential to the work of most GSD graduates and faculty.

• 53% of GSD students are from outside the United States
• “Studio Abroad” program offers GSD students the opportunity to work with practitioners in their design firms, in a city outside the U.S., while continuing their regular course of study at the GSD.
• GSD’s Wimbledon House in London hosts the Richard Rogers Fellowship for the study of the built environment.

The Harvard Divinity School educates scholars, teachers, ministers, and other professionals for religious leadership, service and study across the globe. Its aim is to help build a world in which people can live and work together across religious and cultural divides, and the School draws on its significant resources in global religious studies to expand its students’ understanding of the religions of the world.

• 14% of Harvard Divinity School degree students come from outside the U.S.
• Center for the Study of World Religions has promoted study of the world’s religions since its founding in 1960.
• Summer Language Program focuses on languages relevant to theological and religious studies, and is open to any student with an undergraduate (first) degree from an accredited institution.
• HDS degree programs focus on the study of a wide variety of religious traditions.

The Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) has a diverse, increasingly international student body whose studies are grounded in the HGSE belief that education is a most pressing issue of our time. HGSE research and degree programs provide opportunities for students and scholars who wish to understand the major challenges and solutions to education worldwide.

• 20% of degree students at HGSE come from outside the U.S.
• Master’s degree in International Education Policy explores some of the most challenging issues facing educators and students worldwide.
• The Center for the Developing Child has developed two “innovation clusters” with local partners in Brazil and Mexico to address challenges that confront children and families facing adversity.
• Project Zero’s Interdisciplinary and Global Studies program is an ensemble of research projects designed to inform scholars and educators about preparing youth to understand and address global challenges.
• The Global Education Innovation Initiative is a 10-country research-practice consortium to improve education around the world.

The John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard (SEAS) aims to discover, design, and create novel technologies and approaches to societal challenges. SEAS faculty cross disciplines and geography in their work, addressing challenges from air quality in Brazil and China to the development of effective and affordable medical devices for patients worldwide. SEAS students thus have unparalleled opportunities to engage in interdisciplinary and international scholarship, giving them the tools and experience they need to address the global engineering challenges of the 21st century.

• SEAS research centers and programs like the BASF Advanced Research Initiative, the Center for the Environment, and the Harvard China Project all engage in research with global partners to address global challenges.
• SEAS degree programs and research projects are often global by their very nature, giving SEAS students and scholars numerous opportunities to engage in academic work abroad.

The Harvard Kennedy School of Government (HKS) aims to train dedicated public servants who can improve the way the world works, equipping its students to solve the world’s most wrenching problems and address seemingly intractable problems. Nearly half of HKS students come from outside the United States, and the research and teaching interests of its students and faculty are as wide-ranging, in both subject and geography, as the student body itself. Almost every research center at HKS touches on global issues, and a global perspective is integrated deeply into the School’s curriculum and various degree programs.

• More than 45% of degree students at HKS are from outside the U.S.
• The Master’s degree in Public Administration-International Development is designed to prepare the next generation of leaders in international development.
• The Mason Fellows Program brings mid-career professionals from around the world to HKS to complete a Master’s degree in Public Administration.
• HKS offers a variety of joint degree programs with an international focus:
  • Master’s of Business Administration (M.B.A., Harvard Business School) and Master’s of Public Administration in International Development (M.P.A.-I.D., Harvard Kennedy School)
  • Juris Doctor (J.D., Harvard Law School) and Master’s of Public Administration in International Development (M.P.A.-I.D., Harvard Kennedy School)
  • Mid-Career Master’s of Public Administration (M.C./M.P.A., Harvard Kennedy School) and Master’s in International Affairs or Development Studies (The Graduate Institute, Geneva)

The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) offers more than 60 Ph.D. programs, in traditional fields like philosophy and physics as well newer interdisciplinary programs like Environmental Science and Engineering (offered in conjunction with Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, or SEAS) or Neuroscience (HMS). More than a third of GSAS students are from outside the United States, and students with specific interest in international issues have ample opportunity to pursue those interests across GSAS’s many departments and degree programs.

• More than a third of GSAS students are from outside the U.S.
• In addition to the Ph.D., GSAS offers several Master’s degree programs with an international focus, such as the Master’s in Middle Eastern Studies or South Asia Studies
• Students from outside Harvard can apply to take courses at GSAS as Special Students, while advanced graduate students from institutions other than Harvard can conduct research at Harvard as a GSAS Visiting Fellow.

Harvard Law School (HLS) has a commitment to international and comparative law that sets it apart from many of its peers. Among other signs of this commitment, HLS requires all first-year JD students to enroll in a course on the subject, its Master’s and Doctoral degrees have a strong global component, and the International Legal Studies staff facilitates numerous international opportunities each year for all of HLS’s many international students. More importantly, faculty experts on U.S. law at HLS increasingly bring international and comparative law into their work, while those who specialize in international legal studies bring this expertise to bear on U.S. law and other disciplines, meaning that HLS students will experience international legal studies no matter their particular course of study.

• Nearly one quarter of Harvard Law School degree students come from outside the U.S.
• A variety of HLS research centers and programs have a global or transnational focus, from the Human Rights Program to the Institute for Global Law and Policy to the Program on International Financial Systems.
• HLS International Legal Studies staff links students and faculty with a variety of international opportunities
• The Master of Laws (LL.M.) program includes roughly 180 students from more than 70 countries with a variety of legal systems.
• The Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.) program is home to roughly 60 students from more than 30 different countries.
• Offers joint J.D.-LL.M. degree program with University of Cambridge.

Focusing on global programs that are transformative, sustainable, and reciprocal – programs, in other words, that benefit both Harvard Medical School (HMS) and its partners – HMS has developed a broad and diverse portfolio of international programs for its faculty and students. The Bertarelli Program in Translational Neuroscience and Neuroengineering, which provides fellowships allowing HMS students to study at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and EPFL students to study at HMS; and the HMS Center for Global Health Delivery in Dubai, which promotes education and collaborative research on health issues of global concern, are just two examples of HMS’s global reach and impact.

• 19% of HMS degree students are from outside the U.S.
  • HMS’s primary degree program, the Doctor of Medicine (M.D.), provides a pathway for medical licensure in the United States, and thus attracts a primarily American student body. However, HMS is home to more than a third of the total number of international postdocs and scholars at Harvard at any one time, and the School provides numerous opportunities for faculty and students to conduct research and teaching activities abroad.
• Approximately a quarter of all research projects at HMS have an international component.
• The Department of Global Health and Social Medicine organizes global health activities at HMS, including international medical education experiences, with the aim of improving the practice, delivery, and development of medical care and health policies worldwide.
• The Master of Medical Sciences in Global Health Delivery (MMsc-GHD) offers a cross-University course of study that equips students with the tools needed to conduct medical policy research in low-resource settings.

The goal of improving public health is by nature a global endeavor and the students and faculty of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health pursue their mission of improving human health on every continent. With degree programs like the Master of Science in Global Health and Population or the interdisciplinary concentration in nutrition and global health, with research centers like the Harvard Global Health Institute and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, and with a student body that is more than 40% international, the Harvard Chan School conducts research, teaches, and learns from partners and communities around the world.

• 37% of Harvard Chan School degree students are from outside the U.S.
• Most degree programs at the Harvard Chan School are global by their nature, but the School offers a number of degree and non-degree programs that explicitly have an international focus, including
  • The Master of Science in Global Health and Population
  • Interdisciplinary concentrations in Humanitarian Studies, Ethics, and Human Rights; and Nutrition and Global Health
  • Non-degree programs in Global Health Delivery and Global Infectious Diseases
• Like degree programs, most research centers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health are global by nature, but several have a specific emphasis on global themes, including:
  • University-wide centers: François Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard Global Health Institute, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
  • School-wide and Department centers: Harvard Chan School AIDS Initiative, Center for Global Tobacco Control, Center for Health and the Global Environment
• The Harvard Chan School India Center supports the research and educational work of Harvard Chan School faculty and students in India by building partnerships and new strategic relationships.

The mission of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (RIAS) is to support creative work in all disciplines – humanities, sciences, social sciences, and the arts – and to share that work with academics and the public alike. The RIAS Fellows Program brings 50 fellows from around the world to Harvard each year to study, write, and engage in artistic work. Meanwhile, the topics of the Institute’s various research initiatives range broadly, as one might examine 21st-century urbanism while another explores how native and indigenous peoples around the world have acquired and expressed political power. In all of these endeavors, the RIAS aims to engage scholars and the public in dialogue about some of the world’s most interesting and complex challenges, and to create a borderless intellectual community.