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Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School (HLS), founded 1817 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is Harvard University's law school and origin of the Langdell case method. Peer score 4.7 (tied 2nd, 2026-27 U.S. News); dean John C.P. Goldberg since 2025.
Harvard Medical School
Harvard Medical School (HMS), founded 1782 and based on Longwood Avenue in Boston since 1906, is Harvard University's medical school, with Pathways and HST MD tracks, 165-student classes, affiliated teaching hospitals it does not own, and low MD graduating debt.
Harvard University
Harvard University, founded 1636 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is the oldest US university, with Harvard College plus 13 graduate schools, a $53.2 billion endowment, and president Alan Garber leading its 2025-26 federal funding and lawsuit disputes.
Harvey Mudd College
Harvey Mudd College (HMC), Claremont, California: private undergraduate STEM liberal arts college, fifth of The Claremont Colleges, chartered 1955, opened 1957; known for its Core curriculum, Clinic Program, ~891 undergraduates, and top rankings in engineering and ROI.
Haskell Indian Nations University
Haskell Indian Nations University (HINU) is a tuition-free, federally operated tribal university in Lawrence, Kansas, founded in 1884 as a boarding school, serving over 900 students from about 140 tribes under the Bureau of Indian Education.
Hatfield College, Durham
Hatfield College, Durham: a catered residential college of Durham University founded in 1846 as Hatfield Hall by David Melville, second oldest college, on the North Bailey, motto Vel Primus Vel Cum Primis, Master Ann MacLarnon.
Haverford College
Haverford College, founded 1833 in Haverford, Pennsylvania, is a private Quaker-origin liberal arts undergraduate college known for its student-run Honor Code, Quaker Consortium with Bryn Mawr, Swarthmore, and Penn, 1,464 students, and 200-acre arboretum campus.
Hawaii Pacific University
Hawai'i Pacific University (HPU), private nonprofit university in Honolulu founded 1965 as Hawai'i Pacific College; ~7,500 students, WSCUC-accredited, Oceanic Institute marine research, military campus programs, DII athletics.
Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion
Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR), also called Hebrew Union College, is the Reform Judaism seminary founded in 1875 in Cincinnati by Isaac Mayer Wise, with campuses in Cincinnati, New York, Los Angeles, and Jerusalem, now consolidating rabbinical education after closing its Cincinnati program in 2026.
Hebrew University of Jerusalem (האוניברסיטה העברית בירושלים)
Hebrew University of Jerusalem (האוניברסיטה העברית בירושלים), HUJI, is a research university opened on Mount Scopus in 1925: six campuses, about 23,500 students, 10 Nobel Prizes, 88th in the 2025 Shanghai Ranking.
Heidelberg University
Heidelberg University (Ruperto Carola, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität), founded 1386, is Germany's oldest university, a University of Excellence since 2007, ranked top-three in Germany in ARWU, QS, and THE, with clusters in physics, materials, immunology, and plant science.
Henry Symeonis
Henry Symeonis (Henricus filius Henrici Simeonis), Oxford townsman fined £80 in 1242 for killing scholars; royal pardon of 1264 refused by the University, whose anti-Symeonis oath lasted until 1827.
Heriot-Watt University
Heriot-Watt University, also known as Heriot Watt, is a Scottish university founded in 1821 in Edinburgh. It is known for being the world's first mechanics institute.
High Point University
High Point University (HPU), private university in High Point, North Carolina; founded 1924 as High Point College, renamed 1991. Known for Nido Qubein's post-2005 expansion from 91 to 530 acres, SACSCOC doctoral accreditation, and #1 U.S. News Regional College South rankings.
Higher education in India
Higher education in India: university-level system rooted in ancient Nalanda-era learning, reshaped by 1857 colonial universities, expanded after 1947 under the UGC, now among the world's largest by institution count.
Higher education in the United States
Higher education in the United States: a decentralized system of public and private postsecondary institutions enrolling 18.6 million students in 2026, built on colonial colleges, the 1862 Morrill land-grant Act, HBCUs, and community colleges, with high tuition, strong earnings returns, and peer-based accreditation.
Higher School of Economics
HSE University (Высшая школа экономики), founded in Moscow on November 27, 1992, is a Russian national research university with campuses in four cities, 60,000+ students, and leading Russian rankings in economics and social sciences.
Higher University of San Andrés
The Higher University of San Andrés (Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, UMSA), founded in La Paz in 1830, is Bolivia's principal public university and its second oldest, with more than 80,000 students.
Hillel International
Hillel International, formally Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life, is the world's largest Jewish campus organization. Founded in 1923 by Rabbi Benjamin Frankel at the University of Illinois, it serves nearly 200,000 students at 850+ campuses in 17 countries and sets Israel-related Standards of Partnership for its chapters.
Hillsdale College
Hillsdale College, also called Michigan Central College at founding, is a private classical liberal arts college in Hillsdale, Michigan, founded in 1844, noted for its nondiscrimination charter, refusal of federal funding, and conservative K-12 and political outreach.
Hiram College
Hiram College, a private liberal arts college in Hiram, Ohio, founded in 1850 as the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute and re-chartered in 1867; alma mater of President James A. Garfield, nonsectarian and coeducational from the start, with the 12-week-plus-3-week Hiram Plan calendar.
Historically black colleges and universities
Historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs): U.S. institutions founded before 1964 with the principal mission of educating Black Americans, defined under Title III of the Higher Education Act, rooted in the 1862 and 1890 Morrill Acts and supported by federal programs.
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Hobart and William Smith Colleges is a private liberal arts college in Geneva, New York, formed from Hobart College for men (1822) and William Smith College for women (1908).
Hofstra University
Hofstra University is a private Long Island university in Hempstead, New York, founded 1935 from the Hofstra estate; R2 research institution led by ninth president Susan Poser, with Hofstra 100 strategic plan and law and medical schools.
Honorary degree
An honorary degree, or honorary doctorate (honoris causa), is an academic degree awarded without study, typically to recognize outstanding contributions to a field or society.
Honours degree
An honours degree is a bachelor's degree awarded at a defined standard with a classification reflecting performance, used mainly in the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.
Howard University
Howard University, founded March 2, 1867 in Washington, D.C. and named for Freedmen's Bureau commissioner Oliver O. Howard, is a private historically Black R1 research university with 14 schools and colleges, anchored by its 1868 medical department and 1869 law school.
Howard Warren Buffett
Howard Warren Buffett (born 1983), son of Howard G. Buffett and grandson of Warren Buffett, is a Columbia SIPA adjunct professor, co-author of Social Value Investing and 40 Chances, and former executive director of the Howard G. Buffett Foundation.
Humber Polytechnic
Humber Polytechnic, formerly Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, is a public polytechnic in Toronto founded in 1967, renamed August 29, 2024, with over 76,000 learners, 200+ programs, and campuses at North, Lakeshore, and downtown Toronto.
Humboldt University of Berlin
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU), Berlin's oldest university, founded 1810 as the University of Berlin; Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität 1828–1945, renamed 1949; GDR flagship, post-1990 reform, Berlin University Alliance excellence member.