what state is harvard college located?
Massachusetts
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 Some of the most renowned and highly ranked universities in the world are located in the Boston area . Three universities with a major presence in the city are located just outside of Boston in the Cambridge / Somerville area known as the Brainpower Triangle . Harvard University , the nation 's oldest institute of higher education , is centered across the Charles River in Cambridge but has the majority of its land holdings and a substantial amount of its educational activities in Boston . Its business , medical , dental , and public health schools are located in Boston 's Allston and Longwood neighborhoods . Harvard has plans for additional expansion into Allston . The Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ) , which originated in Boston and was long known as " Boston Tech " , moved across the river to Cambridge in 1916 . Tufts University , whose main campus is north of the city in Somerville and Medford , locates its medical and dental school in Boston 's Chinatown at Tufts Medical Center , a 451 @-@ bed academic medical institution that is home to both a full @-@ service hospital for adults and the Floating Hospital for Children . 

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 After major renovations Elmwood was occupied by Franklin L. Ford , who served as Harvard 's Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for most of the 1960s . Acting President Derek Bok moved his family to its bucolic grounds in 1971 amid security concerns originating in student protest activity near the then @-@ president 's residence on Quincy Street . The house has been the official residence of Harvard presidents since . It still houses portions of the Lowell library . 

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 Patrick Henry College is located in the town of Purcellville in rural northern Virginia , approximately 40 miles ( 64 km ) northwest of Washington D.C. The campus currently consists of seven buildings arranged around a retention pond popularly called " Lake Bob " , as well as several athletic fields . The oldest structure , Founders Hall , opened in 2000 and contains three classrooms , the college library , and various administrative and faculty offices . It is also home to the offices of the Home School Legal Defense Association . Hanna Rosin , author of God 's Harvard , described the campus as " tiny , less like an Ivy League college than like a Hollywood set of an old Ivy League school . " The buildings are of Colonial Revival architecture . The artwork in Founders Hall consists of copies of portraits of the Founding Fathers placed along a staircase , leading to a picture of Patrick Henry at the second Virginia convention which features a light from heaven guiding Henry 's speech . The artwork is designed to , in the words of Hanna Rosin , " remind the students that America was founded as a Christian nation . " 

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 Harvard University awarded a Doctor of Laws degree on May 29 , 2014 . 

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 The college developed a master plan in 2000 to improve campus residences and Jewett was elected as the first to undergo renovation . New Haven , Connecticut @-@ based Herbert S. Newman & Partners were selected for the 15 @-@ month project which was completed by October 2003 at a cost of $ 21 million . 
