<P> Harvard University calls itself `` the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States '' and this claim is rarely challenged . It is possible to disagree what year should be taken as Harvard 's `` real '' founding date ( Harvard uses the earliest possible one , 1636 , when the institution was chartered by the Massachusetts Bay Colony ) . However , Harvard has operated since 1650 under the same corporation , the `` President and Fellows of Harvard College '' ; it thus has an unbroken institutional history dating back to the mid seventeenth century ( an official Harvard web page for the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences claims , `` Founded in 1636 , Harvard is America 's oldest university '' ) . </P>
<P> Harvard University calls itself `` the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States '' and this claim is rarely challenged . It is possible to disagree what year should be taken as Harvard 's `` real '' founding date ( Harvard uses the earliest possible one , 1636 , when the institution was chartered by the Massachusetts Bay Colony ) . However , Harvard has operated since 1650 under the same corporation , the `` President and Fellows of Harvard College '' ; it thus has an unbroken institutional history dating back to the mid seventeenth century ( an official Harvard web page for the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences claims , `` Founded in 1636 , Harvard is America 's oldest university '' ) . </P>
which is the oldest university in the usa
which is the oldest university in the usa
Harvard University
Harvard University