Harvard University · Last verified September 8, 2026
Harvard
Broadest strength across disciplines.
TRI Score
96.1
Elite
#3 Best Universities
Overview
Our assessment
Harvard ranks marginally behind MIT and Stanford on our outcome weighting while leading on breadth: few institutions are this strong across law, medicine, business and the humanities simultaneously.
Best for
- Law, medicine and business tracks
- Students wanting disciplinary breadth
Not ideal for
- Students focused narrowly on engineering
Score breakdown
Why it scored 96.1
- Capability30%
- 98
- Value20%
- 93
- Ease of Use15%
- 89
- Reliability15%
- 97
- Professional Utility10%
- 97
- Momentum10%
- 90
How much the product can actually do, and how well it does the core job.
What you get for the price, including what the free plan really covers.
Time from signup to useful result, without training or a consultant.
Consistency, uptime, support responsiveness and predictable behaviour.
How well it fits real professional workflows, not demos.
Rate of meaningful improvement over the last two evaluation cycles.
Trade-offs
Strengths and weaknesses
- Strength across nearly every field
- Generous financial aid
- Large institution can feel impersonal
- Very low admission rate
Score history
How the score moved
- Jan 202693.7
- Apr 202694.5
- Jun 202695.3
- Sep 202696.1Latest evaluation cycle.
Head-to-head
Compared with
- No published head-to-heads yet.
Evidence
Sources
- Public dataPublic pricing and documentation
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