The Division of Continuing Education (Extension School) offers a range of graduate and undergraduate courses to over 20,000 students each year.

Learning opportunities @ Harvard

Education is at the heart of the Harvard experience, not only for students, but also for all members of the Harvard community. Harvard’s Center for Workplace Development (CWD) offers a wide range of courses designed to increase your knowledge, skills, and overall success. The range of offerings includes professional, managerial, career development, and computer courses – including hundreds of Web-based programs – for all employees. In addition, CWD offers the Bridge to Learning and Literacy program, which is a worker education program open to all hourly employees and members of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW).

The University encourages lifelong learning by granting subsidies for undergraduate and graduate-level courses taken at Harvard and elsewhere through the Tuition Assistance Plan (TAP). TAP is a great way to enhance career skills or pursue a personal academic interest. Available to professional, administrative, support and teaching staff, TAP can help finance courses at most Harvard programs, as well as job-related courses at other institutions. Employees may also pursue a degree or certificate through TAP-eligible programs at the Harvard Extension School, the Graduate School of Education and the School of Public Health.

Additional financial assistance is available through a separately funded Education Assistance Fund.