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Purdue University reviews

4.3

90% would recommend to a friend

(5,122 total reviews)
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Mung Chiang

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73% positive business outlook

Purdue University has an employee rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 5,122 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Purdue 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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3.0
Nov 23, 2025
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Pros

Wonderful students, good PTO, and work flexibility

Cons

Barely paid enough to make ends meet. University proclaims they want us to be Healthy Boilers, but have systematically stripped much of our health care away. Lack of benefits has caused out of pocket costs for things like routine medicine to jump for 0 to thousands per month in the last year. 2%or less raises while touting frozen tuition for students makes employees feel valueless. Administrative response is either lacking or cold, with comments such as "find another job".

5.0
Nov 22, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

- One of the easier universities to get a CS UTA position, provided that you have good grades in the subject and are proactive enough to maintain communication with the professor who taught the course. - Will have pay raises the longer you TA for CS courses.

Cons

- Pay starts out low while living costs are becoming higher. At least you are in West Lafayette, IN, and not the big cities, so you still fare better than most (cost-of-living-wise). - Choose the course you want to TA for wisely, not just the materials, but who teaches the course also matters.

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