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Northwestern University reviews

4.0

74% would recommend to a friend

(4,087 total reviews)
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Michael Schill

57% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

Northwestern University has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 4,087 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Northwestern 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
2.0
Aug 1, 2021

Poor

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good benefits-affordable health insurance and good PTO (if you ever get to use it).

Cons

Poor leadership and selfish middle management. Everyone looks out for only themselves and support departments. Unless you are high up, your salary is not at all commensurate with cost of living.

5.0
Jul 30, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits like tuition and medical insurance. A lot of local discounts with the Wildcard. Work is not too challenging.

Cons

The pay is very low for the Chicago/Evanston area and is not a living wage. Even with roommates, no student loan or ca, I cut even every month. Also, the tuition benefit caps yearly at $12k, not keeping up with drastically increasing tuition costs. There's not a lot of opportunities for advancement and pay increases are low.

2.0
May 25, 2021

NUIT is Toxic

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Academic class discounts for employees and family

Cons

NUIT is toxic - leadership maturity is lacking. Administrative systems is a micro-managing nightmare that wants to look at every hour spent and acts like the same level of service and projects should exist with 50 less resources. No career path as well as good old boy group ingrained throughout technical side of the organization that is well connected into several of the schools.

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