At Harvard Extension School, we bring together expert faculty who love to teach and motivated adult learners who love to learn.
Through hundreds of courses in over 50 different subject areas, our instructors teach their scholarly and professional passions. The combination of expertise and enthusiasm inspires our learners to reimagine their own academic and professional lives.
Our faculty are educators, practitioners, and scholars. Although their research and professional experience differ, faculty share a passion for preparing and educating HES students to tackle the challenges of a rapidly changing global society.
70%
Faculty with doctoral degrees
592
Instructors
1,085
Courses
50
Subject areas
As a practitioner focusing on an emerging trend like sustainable IT, I can’t think of a better place to talk about it other than Harvard Extension School. The depth of expertise and diversity of backgrounds within the HES community provides a cross-pollinating and elevated learning experience.
Founder of Digital Emissions
Our instructors come from diverse personal, professional, and academic backgrounds. And many enjoy national and international recognition in their fields.
You will learn from Harvard University faculty as well as renowned faculty from local, national, and international universities.
In addition, you’ll work with top industry professionals from the fields of business, IT, and sustainability, plus museum directors, journalists, and biotechnologists.
The teaching and learning results are tremendous, but you don’t have to take our word for it. Our students evaluate us at the end of every term on a scale from zero to five.
4.6/5
Average instructor rating across all courses
4.7/5
Instructors communicate clear presentations
4.6/5
Instructors provide effective discussions and activities
4.7/5
Instructors are available for content questions
I am teaching with Harvard Extension School because of the broad exposure to students from so many different professional and educational backgrounds. By reaching these individuals, from early to late career, I have the opportunity to influence how they approach cybersecurity, and to have them learn
Chief Information Security Officer, PagerDuty
In addition to excellent teaching, HES instructors have rich scholarly and public lives.
They are influencers and thought leaders. Their research has been published in top journals and by the most prestigious academic presses.
They have been asked to speak at national and international conferences as well as national and international news outlets. Some have participated in TEDx talks.
In addition to Harvard Extension School, our instructors teach at:
We bring our professional experience and expertise to the classroom. You’ll stay well-informed on current industry trends, metrics, and best practices.
We are CEOs, screenwriters, principal software engineers, chief information security officers, lawyers, and solution architects.
Some of our organizations include Amazon, WCVB-TV, Moody’s Analytics, Deutsche Bank, The Wall Street Journal, S&P Global, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Partners Healthcare, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, The Washington Post, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, American Express, Teradata, and Pfizer, Inc.
