<p>Are there many Russian students at Harvard? Do they have their own “communities” or clubs? :)</p>
<p>I am unaware of any specific number or demographic percentage (although I would think less than 10 enroll in each graduating class), but yes, there are Russian students attending. I am familiar with one organization called the “Russian Speaker’s Association”; there may be other Russian-themed unions but I would suspect that the population would not quite be that substantial to support a variety. You may explore the list below:</p>
<p>[Student</a> Organization List Office of Student Life](<a href=“http://osl.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k65178&pageid=icb.page305611]Student”>http://osl.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k65178&pageid=icb.page305611)</p>
<p>Thank you sooo much! That link is perfect!!!</p>
<p>I would be astounded if there were only 10 Russian speakers per class, given the number of Russian speakers I have seen accepted there and at other equivalent colleges. There are lots of immigrant and first-generation Russian kids with a lot of academic ambition and skills.</p>
<p>My initial post concerned an estimate of those admitted from Russia itself. However, if the question pertained to the relative commonness of those fluent in the language because of schooling, immigrant parents, and so forth, the number would indeed be a fair degree higher.</p>
<p>Russians from Russia are going to be way less than 10 per graduating class. I saw a list of how many Harvard students are from what countries once, and only a handful (not including Russia, I think) averaged more than one or two per class. The majority of foreign students are from Canada, the UK, or Australia.</p>
<p>If one is strictly considering demographics within Harvard College, Canada should have somewhere between thirty and forty per graduating class with the United Kingdom at maybe fifteen. Australia is perhaps in the 5-10 range. Germany and Israel, I would think, average more than two since those countries are fairly competitive academically. (As a random tidbit, one French student informed me that France has four members in the Class of 2014.) Singapore, India, China, and South Korea probably all have between 5-10 in each graduating class. In fact, South Korea and China are likely third and fourth in international representation, behind Canada and the U.K.</p>
<p>I finally found the report I had been looking for.</p>
<p>Citizenship of international students last year at Harvard College from countries with 9 or more students (i.e., average > 2 per class):</p>
<p>Canada - 144
UK - 54
South Korea - 42
China - 36
Singapore - 22
India - 20
Australia - 20
Kenya - 15
Germany - 14
Romania - 14
Turkey - 13
Bulgaria - 12
Israel - 11
Malaysia - 10</p>
<p>Out of 666 total, from 92 different countries.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.hio.harvard.edu/abouthio/statistics/pdf/StudentsRankCountrySchool09-10.pdf”>http://www.hio.harvard.edu/abouthio/statistics/pdf/StudentsRankCountrySchool09-10.pdf</a> </p>
<p>There were three students from Russia enrolled at Harvard College last year, by the way. And another 13 from former Soviet republics.</p>