The Faculty of
Arts and Sciences

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences is the historic heart of Harvard University. It is home to the undergraduate program (Harvard College) as well as all of Harvard’s doctoral programs (Graduate School of Arts and Sciences). 

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Department and Program Directory

The FAS’s 40 academic departments and 32 academic centers support a community unparalleled in its academic excellence across the broadest range of liberal arts and sciences disciplines.

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I am reminded daily that ours is an extraordinary community — diverse, ambitious, and deeply committed to teaching and research excellence. We are all drawn here, each in our own way, by a passion for learning, a search for deeper understandings, and a will to serve the common good.  

Claudine Gay
Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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Dean Claudine Gay

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Read the latest messages from Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Claudine Gay to the FAS community.

Support the FAS

The ideas that change the world happen at Harvard. Through its long history of research, teaching, collaboration, innovation, and truth-seeking, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences is positioned to solve problems in ways others cannot. And although we face a new and unexpected future with urgent demands, the FAS has always seen challenges as opportunities.