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 The City of Cambridge is widely-regarded as an education center and has been referred to as the "Intellectual Capital of the World." Over one-quarter of the City's residents are students and the colleges and universities employ one out of six workers in Cambridge.
Cambridge is home to four world-class institutions of higher learning including Harvard, MIT, Lesley University and Cambridge College. These four institutions enroll one-quarter of Cambridge's total population and are the driving factor behind the city's knowledge-based economy.
Several other institutions of advanced study in highly specialized fields, such as music and theology, also have a home in Cambridge. In addition, a variety of specialty schools focus on topics such as computers, languages, massage, cooking, yoga and glassblowing.
The universities' collective ability to attract top employers, new ventures, research dollars, and scholars from around the globe makes Cambridge one of the most important intellectual and commercial centers in the world.
Harvard University
Harvard Square
(617) 495-1000
www.harvard.edu
Harvard University is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. Founded in 1636, just 16 years after the arrival of the Puritans in Plymouth Bay Colony, Harvard has grown from nine students with a single master to an enrollment of more than 16,000 degree candidates, including undergraduates and students in ten graduate and professional schools. Harvard was named for its first benefactor, John Harvard, a young minister who, upon his death in 1638, left his library and half his estate to the new institution. No justice can be done to any effort to list distinguished alumni, which includes notable figures in every field of human endeavor, from the arts and sciences to politics, medicine, and the law.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
(617) 253-1000
http://web.mit.edu/
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was founded in 1861 to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and engineering disciplines. Today MIT is one of the world's top research universities, routinely leading all US universities in patents granted and attracting venture funding and research grants from around the globe.
MIT has more than 900 faculty and 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students. It is organized into five schools nd one college that contain 34 academic departments, as well as many interdepartmental programs, laboratories and centers whose work extends beyond traditional departmental boundaries. Education and research—with relevance to the practical world as a guiding principle—continue to be MIT's primary purpose. MIT routinely leads all US universities in number of patents granted.
Lesley University
Lesley University
29 Everett Street
(617) 868-9600
www.lesley.edu
Lesley University offers undergraduate and advanced degrees that prepare women and men to become leaders in education, human services, the arts, environmental studies and a variety of other professional fields. Lesley is a national leader in quality teacher preparation. The university prepares more teachers than any other private institution in Massachusetts and is one of the largest providers of graduate education for classroom educations in the US. Founded in 1909, total enrollment is approximately 12,000, which campuses throughout the nation.
Cambridge College
1000 Massachusetts Avenue
(617) 868-1000
www.cambridgecollege.edu
Cambridge College offers a unique environment where working adults can continue their education by building on a lifetime of learning. Cambridge College recognizes diversity as an asset the the classroom, the community and society. An innovative teaching and learning model helps adult students meet the challenges of higher education and earn the degree credentials they need to advance their careers. Founded in 1971, Cambridge College offers bachelors, masters and post-masters degrees for educators, counselors, managers and human service providers. Enrollment is approximately 7,000.
Continuing Education
Cambridge Center for Adult Education
42 Brattle Street
(617) 547-6789
www.ccae.org
The Cambridge Center for Adult Education is a nonprofit organization that provides opportunities to learn skills from finance to belly dancing. Programs are offered for people who want to explore new educational areas and develop their abilities, for personal and professional reasons, for a reasonable investment of time and money, in a friendly yet challenging atmosphere.
Harvard Extension School
http://extension.dce.harvard.edu
51 Brattle Street
(617) 495-4024
The Harvard Extension School offers part-time evening study on an open enrollment basis. Undergraduate, graduate, and noncredit instruction is offered in more than 550 courses in 50 fields of study. The majority of the Extension School's instructors are Harvard affiliates, and many arts and sciences faculty teach the same course at night as they do during the day at Harvard College.
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