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The answers to today’s big questions, whether in engineering, physics, biology, or economics, inevitably have computation at their core.

Researchers and professionals increasingly need their own version of the search engine: a way to take a flood of information and organize and use it efficiently.

Our computer science curriculum is designed to offer students a great amount of flexibility—with time for related study and for outside opportunities, from sports to clubs to hobbies. You can readily combine your studies with other fields, including mathematics, physics, economics, psychology, and linguistics.

Computer science is of course about creating code and running software, but it takes more than clever keystrokes to go from
an idea to an end product or solution. It takes teams of people. It takes active collaboration. It takes reaching out to other fields. It takes management as well as technical savvy. In other words,individuals with imagination and leadership.

At Harvard, computer science is part of a dynamic hub that links to fields such as electrical engineering, physics, chemistry, and biology, and to professions such as medicine and business.

Information technology and computation has had a profound impact on many aspects of society, health care, and the scientific disciplines. As such, a foundation of formal training in Computer Science can benefit undergraduate concentrators in many fields of the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. To provide this training, a secondary field in Computer Science requires that students with primary interests in other fields take four courses in Computer Science.

There is also a Secondary Field available in Computer Science.