Campus is nice, but supervisor impacts experience - Anonymous employee Northwestern University Employee Review

Relative to other universities, graduate compensation is competitive, benefits are acceptable and location is great.

Experience will vary greatly by department, though compensation is generally well-equalized.

- NU offers a nice retirement match, and the benefits (not pay) are competitive. - The campus is nice.

- The benefits are nice but the pay is really not competitive at all, and there is no salary transparency either. - The culture of your office really depends on who is the head. I had a good relationship with my Director of Operations and Center Director which translated throughout the office, but I have heard countless horror stories of horrible and psychologically abusive faculty to work with, especially in the Materials Science & Engineering department. - At the end of the day, you are staff and are treated as such. If you have toxic faculty members to work with, you are stuck, and HR will do nothing to help you because you are staff and replaceable.