Mark Zuckerberg Returns to Harvard on Great Mission

Mark Zuckerberg left Harvard without a degree, but he was welcomed back to campus as a celebrated former student on Monday.

He made his first official visit to the New England campus since his 2004 departure – though he has previously visited on informal recruiting trips -- to search for talented young scholars to join his Facebook team. The 27-year-old CEO made a recruitment pitch to 250 students outside the campus library, following a similar visit at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, reports Fox News.

Facebook remains a top tier competitor, along with Google Inc, Yahoo! Inc and other Silicon Valley companies, in the hunt for the country’s top young graduates. Zuckerberg’s Cambridge, Massachussetts visit prompted the announcement that Facebook plans to expand and could open an office in the Boston area.