Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

The Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences (also known as FAS) is the largest of the nine schools (or faculties) that comprise Harvard University. Headquartered principally in Cambridge, Massachusetts and centered in the historic Harvard Yard, FAS is the only division of the university responsible for both undergraduate and graduate education. It is only one of Harvard's nine faculties that awards the degree of doctor of philosophy.

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Harvard University - Cambridge - Massachusetts - Harvard Yard - Doctor of philosophy

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As of October 2003, FAS comprised approximately 700 tenured professors, untenured associate professors and assistant professors, and an additional 300 part-time lecturers in some 30 academic departments and programs in the humanities, the social sciences, the natural sciences, the applied sciences and engineering. There are 6,500 full-time undergraduates and 3,500 graduate students. In fiscal year 2003, FAS has an operating budget of $698 million and revenue of $800 million. As of June 2003, the FAS endowment had a market value of $8 billion, accounting for forty-seven percent of Harvard's total endowment valued at $19 billion.

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