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      Harvard University reviews

      4.2

      83% would recommend to a friend

      (4,072 total reviews)

      Alan Garber

      80% approve of CEO

      69% positive business outlook

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      4.1

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.0

      Work/Life balance

      4.0

      Career opportunities

      3.9

      Culture & values

      3.8

      Compensation and benefits

      3.6

      Senior management

      Harvard University has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 4,072 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Harvard University employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).

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      4K reviews
      4.0
      Aug 9, 2011

      It's a great place for resources and the resume, but mentorship as a grad student is on average poor.

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      Pros

      An advanced degree in academia from Harvard is without question prestigious, and the resources to focus on just about anything are available. Even if you have a poor time here, that little bump on the resume might open a few doors. Your peers are uniformly intelligent and interesting.

      Cons

      If you are truly interested in mentorship from a professor, this is not the best place to be. Professor's attitudes range from the arrogant to quite friendly, but almost all of them will not have the time to truly mentor you (with some exceptions). If my entire entering class had attended a lower level institution, I imagine more of us would be going into academia after our degrees. Finally, those smart peers can be a spectacularly unsupportive environment if you're susceptible to that kind of thing. Again, it's not malice, but everyone feels a little insecure about their standing, and that can undermine a lot of interactions.

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