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Portland State University reviews

3.9

73% would recommend to a friend

(218 total reviews)

Stephen Percy

56% approve of CEO

41% positive business outlook

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4.0
Jul 31, 2025
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Pros

Depends on your department. Each has its own micro culture. Mine was professional, committed to excellence, caring of its staff, open to new ideas and improvement. Each person’s experience will be vastly different depending on who is leading the department.

Cons

Low salary for administrative professionals. Not competitive. Can feel undervalued. PSU always struggling financially, and it has had incompetent presidents in past.

1.0
Jul 6, 2025
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Pros

All the faculty I had the opportunity to work under were wonderful people.

Cons

Administration is choking anything that isn't a STEM field right now, and it shows. Long-time adjuncts and full time professors without tenure are being let go, programs are being cut, grad assistantships are getting slashed across the board. What remains are programs with miserable pay no benefits of any kind and where you're expected to do full time equivalent work while also studying. It will be sad seeing PSU's prestige go down the drain in the coming years, and it's all because administration can't go without a seven figure yearly salary. But hey, Compsci is getting a new building.

4.0
May 11, 2025

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Pros

Great staff and management provide a comfortable work environment

Cons

Not the highest pay for part-time work in the area

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