Campus of Harvard University, Harvard University Campus

Campus of Harvard University, Harvard University Campus

210 acres (85 ha) main campus of Harvard University is centered on Harvard Yard in Cambridge, approximately 3.4 miles (5.5 km) northwest of downtown Boston and extends into the surrounding neighborhood Harvard Square. Harvard Yard itself contains the central administrative offices and main libraries of the university, academic buildings including Sever Hall and University Hall, Memorial Church, and the majority of the freshman dormitories. Sophomore, junior students, and seniors live in twelve residential Houses, nine of which are south of Harvard Yard along or near the Charles River. The other three are located in a residential neighborhood half a mile northwest of the patio at the Quadrangle (commonly known as the Quad), which formerly housed the Radcliffe College students until Radcliffe merged its residential system with Harvard. The Harvard MBTA station provides public transportation via bus service and the Red Line subway.

The Harvard Business School and many of the athletic facilities of the university, including Harvard Stadium, are located on a (145 ha) campus 359 acres opposite the Cambridge campus in Allston. John W. Bridge Weeks is a pedestrian bridge over the Charles River connecting both campuses. The Harvard Medical School, School of Dental Medicine Harvard School of Public Health at Harvard are in a (8.9 ha) campus of 22 acres in the Long wood Medical and Academic Area approximately 3.3 miles (5, 3 km) southwest of the city of Boston and 3.3 miles (5.3 km) south of the Cambridge campus. A shuttle bus connects the Long wood campus to private Cambridge campus via Massachusetts Avenue making stops in the Back Bay and at MIT as well.
Each residential house contains rooms for students, teachers and tutors House, residents as well as a dining room, library and other student services. The facilities were made possible by a gift from Yale University student Edward Harkness.

Radcliffe Yard, formerly the center of the campus of Radcliffe College (and now home of the Radcliffe Institute), is adjacent to the Graduate School of Education and the Cambridge Common.

From 2009-2011, Harvard University reported crime statistics on campus with 69 forced sex offenses, 12 robberies, 15 aggravated assaults, 80 burglaries and 10 cases of motor vehicle theft.