On Campus Child Care

Why are the on-campus child care center tuition costs so high?

The cost of high quality child care is in the number and qualifications of caregivers. An overwhelming body of evidence connects educated and experienced caregivers, small group sizes, and low teacher-to-child ratios with high-quality early-childhood programs. Centers have a longstanding commitment to investing in recruiting and retaining skilled and experienced teachers. Across the six centers, most teachers have BA, MA or higher degrees; many group sizes are smaller and teacher/child ratios are lower than both National Association for the...

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Is there any financial aid available to help pay for child care?

Some of the child care centers are able to make a limited amount of internally generated financial aid available each year. Consult individual centers for more information.

Benefits-eligible faculty, staff and postdocs may be eligible for one of several child care scholarship programs. Please go
here for more information.

There is currently no child care funding available for students.

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Who runs the campus child care centers?

Between 1964 and 1976, six non-profit child care centers were founded on Harvard’s campuses, by and for Harvard’s students, faculty and staff.  Hosted in Harvard space and tailored to their individual communities’ needs, they were governed by parent-run boards of directors and operated independently from one another and the university. In 2017, they unified as a single new nonprofit organization, Campus Child Care, Inc, (CCC) with a view to streamlining their administrative functions, strengthening collaboration across centers, and improving...

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