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3.0
4 Mar 2010
Anonymous employee
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Pros

It's good to be able to work at a university with these resources, but getting the resources is very slow and difficult.

Cons

Harvard University is a very slow moving university. In order to get work done, you really need to work with your department and keep pressing for paperwork to go through.

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5.0
25 June 2026
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Pros

A PhD is always very advisor/PI dependent, but I had a great experience with room to learn, grow, and explore interesting research questions. As with any PhD program you’ll work pretty hard for relatively lower pay and perhaps less directly applicable industry career trajectory at the end, but if you find good people to tackle the journey with and get to work on interesting problems I personally think the journey is worthwhile!

Cons

Less of a program wide cohort in my particular engineering field. Some funding challenges with the govt last year but seem mostly back now, apart from the recent administration issues funding wasn’t generally a challenge

4.0
29 June 2026
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Pros

Helpful to work while in school.

Cons

Nothing really - loved it a lot!

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