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Great - Graduate Student Virginia Commonwealth University Employee Review

3.0
Sep 23, 2011
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Pros

The faculty members are very supportive of the students, and there are always opportunities to find projects to build your CV. I get a pretty decent stipend as a graduate student and all my courses are paid for.

Cons

Your success in a graduate program is largely contingent on your adviser and your committee members. I have seen smart, talented graduate students get dropped (i.e., failed) because of their own advisers' mismanagement.

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Pros

They care about the employees. There are multiple efforts to support everyone, it is a welcoming environment, HR is very supportive.

Cons

VCU is incredibly bureaucratic and poorly ran. Things move slow, very slow. More slow than normal universities should. It isn't just "oh this is academia, things move slow." It's legitimate poor management across multiple levels of leadership.

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