Academics and research are at the core of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. As the largest division of Harvard University and the only one responsible for both undergraduate and graduate education, the FAS is home to an abundance of academic resources and research endeavors. The academic departments and centers, museums, and libraries of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences support a community unparalleled in its academic excellence across the broadest range of liberal arts and sciences disciplines. Information on undergraduate concentrations and graduate programs of study can be found on the Harvard College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences websites.
- African & African American Studies
- Cervantes Obervatorio
- Arnold Arboretum
- FAS Center for Systems Biology
- Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
- Center for Brain Science
- Center for Nanoscale Systems
- Critical Media Practice
- Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
- Center for Astrophysics
- Center for Hellenic Studies
- Center for Advanced Imaging at Harvard
- Center for Jewish Studies
- Center for Integrated Quantum Materials
- Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture
- Carpenter Center for Visual Arts
- American Studies
- Anthropology
- Applied Computation
- Applied Mathematics
- Theater, Dance & Media
- Applied Physics
- Art, Film, & Visual Studies
- Astronomy
- Bioengineering
- Celtic Languages & Literatures
- Chemistry & Chemical Biology
- Computer Science
- Film Study Center
- Harvard -Yenching Institute
- Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering
- Classics
- Harvard CAMLab
- Comparative Literature
- Earth & Planetary Sciences
- East Asian Languages & Civilizations
- Inner Asian & Altaic Studies
- Economics
- Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East
- Harvard-China Project on Energy, Economy and Environment
- Folklore & Mythology
- Ethnicity, Migration, Rights
- Electrical Engineering
- Harvard College Observatory
- Harvard Forest
- English
- Harvard Data Science Initiative
- Harvard Privacy Tools Project
- Environmental Science & Engineering
- Germanic Languages & Literatures
- Government
- History
- Harvard Museum of Natural History
- Harvard Quantum Initiative
- Harvard Stem Cell Institute
- Harvard University Center for the Environment
- Harvard University Herbaria
- History of Art & Architecture
- Kavli Institute for Bionano Science and Technology
- History of Science
- Human Evolutionary Biology
- Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard
- The Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History
- The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies
- The Learning Incubator
- Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
- Institute for Theory and Computation
- Institute for Applied Computational Science
- Linguistics
- Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology
- Regional Studies of East Asia
- Museum of Comparative Zoology
- Origins of Life Initiative
- Microbial Sciences Initiative
- Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
- Medieval Studies
- Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program
- Materials Science & Mechanical Engineering
- Mathematics
- Molecular & Cellular Biology
- Mahindra Humanities Center
- Music
- The Center for Ultracold Atoms
- Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations
- Organismic & Evolutionary Biology
- Philosophy
- Physics
- Psychology
- South Asian Studies
- BASF Advanced Research Initiative at Harvard University
- Romance Languages & Literatures
- Slavic Languages & Literatures
- Sociology
- Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute
- Statistics
- Stem Cell & Regenerative Biology
- Hutchins Center for African & African-American Research
- Social Studies
- Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics
- Society of Fellows
- Embedded EthiCS @ Harvard
- Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies
- Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
- Ukrainian Research Institute
- History & Literature
- Asia Center
- Rowland Institute
- Edwin O. Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies
- Observatory of the Spanish Language and Hispanic Cultures in the United States
- Program on U.S.-Japan Relations
- Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies
- Harvard China Fund
- Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center
- Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
- Opportunity Insights
- Korea Institute
- Committee on the Study of Religion
- Center for African Studies
- Center for American Political Studies
- Center for Research on Computation and Society
- Center for Geographic Analysis
- Center for Middle Eastern Studies
- Institute for Quantitative Social Science
- Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments
- David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies