I was wondering, after I finish graduating for my Bachelors degree in California State University of Monterey Bay, I was thinking to get my masters somewhere in California and then do my doctoral at Harvard University. My concerns is if is worth to get a masters and a doctoral?
It depends on what you want to do and if you have the money to continue schooling. What is your current major?
I am going to do my major in Computer Science. I will start my first year in college at college first, but I was having this thought to join Harvard after I get my masters and I was wondering if is possible.
It also depends on what "worth it " means to you. It’s also worth noting that just because you “[have] this thought to join Harvard” doesn’t mean Harvard will want you to do so.
Computer science is one area you don’t need a MS or PhD to get meaningful work. Once you have the foundations, you can learn a lot on the job. Working in the field can give you some idea of what direction you would want to head in for specialized graduate studies. Participating in research as an undergraduate will open your mind to what graduate studies are about and bring some of those specialized areas to your attention.
For MS there are a couple tracks, one brings you a Master’s for intention to work professionally. You might have breadth requirements and also a series of courses in one area you are especially interested in, like databases, networks, programming languages development or machine learning. A research MS with thesis may be completed for those who are looking to continue on to a PHD program. A thesis will be research in a particular specific area. People who do a PhD are interested in research in one particular area of CS and they will be producing original groundbreaking research to advance knowledge and they will be the specialist in this one tiny area within the general type of CS such as Artificial Intelligence, Cryptography and on.
So when you pick a grad school, you look to see which uni’s are strong in that one particular area you wish to specialize in. Harvard might be the best for that or they may be the worst for that. You don’t pick a grad school and department based on the reputation of the undergraduate school.