China,
and Arnold Arboretum in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston.
== Organization and administration ==
=== Governance ===
Harvard is governed by a combination of its Board of Overseers and the President and Fellows of Harvard College, which is also known as the Harvard Corporation. These two bodies, in turn, appoint the President of Harvard University.
There are 16,000 staff and faculty, including 2,400 professors, lecturers, and instructors.
As of 2025, Harvard differs radically from its peer universities in two important ways. First, Harvard does not make its governing statutes publicly available, meaning that members of the Harvard community interested in reform must first persuade the university to give them a copy of those documents. Second, Harvard does not have an academic senate like most of its peers, although it is currently attempting to create one.
=== Endowment ===
Harvard has the largest university endowment in the world, valued at about $50.7 billion as of 2023.
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