UC Riverside Riverside reviews

4.2

86% would recommend to a friend

(982 total reviews)
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Kim A. Wilcox

93% approve of CEO

47% positive business outlook

Employees in Riverside have given UC Riverside a rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 982 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience in Riverside. The UC Riverside employee rating in Riverside is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).

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982 reviews
1.0
Aug 19, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Lower cost of living than L.A. Close to L.A. and Orange County. Can live near campus

Cons

This is a terrible place for business faculty. Heavy teaching load, large classes, little support. Strong senior faculty and good dean left because they were harassed by the senior administration for trying to create a good business school. Really weak senior faculty are left and they abuse the junior faculty. The larger campus and senior administration use the business school to generate cash to support other parts of campus and low teaching loads for favored units like the sciences.

5.0
Aug 18, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

They were great to me, the people were wonderful, considerate, let me take time off as needed. I would work here again.

Cons

There were not many cons. I enjoyed my work, the people I worked with and the physical environment.

1.0
Aug 13, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There is absolutely nothing- no wait, it is not far from L.A. And San Diego

Cons

Business TA's are really exploited. Discussion sections in business are twice the size of discussion sections in any other part of the university. Worse, graduate classes in business for which you pay an extra $ 20k per year are huge compared to all other graduate classes on campus where the students don't pay extra. The building stinks. Faculty are worthless and the good ones keep leaving. Stay far away.

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