Harvard College offers academic opportunities to its students that are virtually unsurpassed at American universities. Courses are available on topics that span the globe, cover the latest scientific discoveries, and delve deeply into the past. Harvard College students pursue knowledge both broadly and in depth, and typically get some exposure to the full range of approaches to human knowledge while they also pursue advanced work within a special area of concentration.

The Faculty's departmental structure supports programs that guide concentrators from their first introduction to a field to greater levels of sophistication, while a number of other academic programs support Harvard's efforts at general educational needs and specialized academic concerns. Students negotiate the array of academic offerings with the help of an extensive advising system that is offered through the departments and in the residences, and that addresses student concerns from the most routine administrative questions to questions about shaping academic programs that are right for an individual student's needs. Many non-curricular resources are available that help translate our students' goals into reality.