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      UMass Boston reviews

      3.9

      69% would recommend to a friend

      (461 total reviews)

      Katherine Newman

      71% approve of CEO

      65% positive business outlook

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      4.4

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.8

      Work/Life balance

      3.6

      Culture & values

      3.3

      Career opportunities

      3.2

      Senior management

      3.1

      Compensation and benefits

      UMass Boston has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 461 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The UMass Boston 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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      461 reviews
      2.0
      Sep 18, 2024

      Great coworkers, HR is abysmal- avoid

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      The people I work with are amazing.

      Cons

      HR is utterly incompetent and they also don’t help or support employees. They don’t care about offering a living wage, they don’t care about the well-being of their employees. It feels like you’re dealing with a corporate HR department.

      4.0
      Sep 14, 2024

      Graduate student a UMB

      Graduate student
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      There are some truly great professors to work with at UMB, the community and my PI is what got me through my PhD. The smaller size led to much stronger growth of my knowledge then it would have in a larger setting.

      Cons

      Pay is truly awful and the administration is hostile to anyone trying to advocate for themselves or for improvements for their department

      3.0
      Sep 6, 2024

      Good people, terrible HR dept

      Research assistant professor
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      UMass Boston is often overlooked compared to UMass Amherst, but the professors I encountered at UMass Boston were among the nicest, most dedicated and brilliant people I've ever enountered in my career so far.

      Cons

      I was explicitly told by colleagues to avoid dealings with the HR dept at all costs. Indeed, whenever I needed anything from them, my emails seemed to fall into a black hole, never responded to, or sometimes responded to and subsequently ignored. The only way to get any movement out of them was to go there in person and nag them. There were maybe 1 or 2 people in HR who could be counted on, and having their contact was like gold. The rest were either incompetent or just didn't care, I'm not sure which. Also, the university has few co.petent admin people in general and does not value them sufficiently. my dept had one admin who actually got anything done, but the dept consistently refused to pay her a competitive salary until she got frustrated and left. now the dept is in chaos

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