<p>Hello - I was doing some research, and read that Harvard’s campus is something like 4,862 acres, while the other schools are about 100-400 acres. Is this a typo, because I dont see how Harvard’s campus is so significantly larger than say Yale or Brown. Can anyone respond to this?</p>
<p>The number you saw was for “real estate holdings” - which are more extensive than what is, strictly speaking, the “campus.” </p>
<p>I’d say the “campus” is about 500 acres - half in Cambridge, and half in Boston. Other real estate includes the medical area in Boston, the Boston Arboretum, an office park in Watertown, and the Harvard Forest.</p>
<p>Here is a map on which you can see where some of these areas are (excluding the Forest, which is off towards central Massachusetts.)</p>
<p><a href=“http://map.harvard.edu/[/url]”>http://map.harvard.edu/</a></p>
<p>Of course Harvard also owns hundreds of thousands of acres as part of the investments in the endowment - including huge tracts of timberland in this country and abroad.</p>