Harvard University has a lofty academic status and widespread influence in literature, medicine, law, business and other fields, and is recognized as one of the top higher education and research institutions in the world today.
At the same time, the school is also responsible for managing and operating the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston Children's Hospital and other institutions.
As of October 2019, Harvard University has trained 8 presidents of the United States of America, including Franklin Roosevelt and Barack Obama, and Harvard’s alumni, professors and researchers have produced 160 Nobel Prize winners.
Bell Prize winners (No. 1 in the world), 18 Fields Medal winners (No. 1 in the world), and 14 Turing Award winners (No. 4 in the world).
From 2019 to 2020, Harvard University ranked first in the world in the Academic Ranking of World Universities, U.S. News ranked first in the world, QS ranked third in the world, THE World University ranked seventh in the world, and THE World University Reputation Ranking in the world.
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Ranked 1st among the top 100 universities in the world in the 2020 Ranke Academic Ranking of World Universities.
MIT is famous for its top engineering and computer science, with MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT CSAIL), Lincoln Laboratory (MIT Lincoln Lab) and MIT Media Lab (MIT Media Lab)
, whose researchers invented the World Wide Web, the GNU system, the Emacs editor, the RSA algorithm, and more.
The school's computer engineering, electrical engineering and many other engineering fields ranked among the top five in the world in the 2019-20 Academic Ranking of World Universities, and ranked first in engineering and computer science in the 2018-19 US News National Graduate School Rankings.
First, together with Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley, it is known as an academic leader in the engineering technology community.
As of October 2019, MIT’s alumni, faculty, and researchers have produced 97 Nobel Prize winners (fifth in the world) and 8 Fields Medal winners (eighth in the world)
and 26 Turing Award winners (second in the world).
The Freedom Trail is a red-brick paved street that stretches for more than 3 kilometers from Boston Common to Charlestown. Most of the streets along the way are from the 17th and 18th centuries.
Houses, churches and Revolutionary War ruins are important roads in the historical development of Boston and are also tourist attractions vigorously promoted by the Boston government.