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4.4

83% would recommend to a friend

(1,559 total reviews)
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65% positive business outlook

Brown University has an employee rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 1,559 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Brown 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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5.0
Nov 8, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

That's a great school, with a lot of opportunities of collaboration. It's great that postocs can get any courses in the University for free - some of them can be really useful for the future career (such as the teaching certificates for example). The major point for this University is also that it provides great benefits to postdocs (at a level of regular staff members): full medical and dental coverage, retirement plan, etc. The salary is competitive, and the location is great (you can easily afford living in 10 minutes on foot from your work).

Cons

The tenured professors form a rather closed society, which does not seem to based entirely on scientific success, but also on personal "liking" and "disliking". There seems to be almost no hope to get a tenure-track position in this University..

5.0
Sep 30, 2010

Great

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Business Outlook

Pros

Great people and liberal environment

Cons

This city is a bit small

4.0
Aug 24, 2010

Plain Review

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Liberal arts institution with top academic and extracurricular facilities. It is a part of the Ivy League. Various very good departments.

Cons

It does not have a Business School or large Graduate community compared to Harvard University and MIT, for example. The dorms are just above average.

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