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      4.6

      92% would recommend to a friend

      (767 total reviews)

      Sally Kornbluth

      87% approve of CEO

      79% positive business outlook

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      Research Support Associate II employees have rated MIT with 4.6 out of 5 stars, based on 767 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Research Support Associate II professionals have an excellent working experience there. MIT is rated 23% above average by Research Support Associate II professionals compared to other employers within the Educación industry (3.7 stars).

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      767 reviews
      5.0
      Oct 13, 2009

      Great place to learn

      Research assistant
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      Pros

      Wonderful advisors, excellent projects, world class environment

      Cons

      Workload can be a bit uneven

      4.0
      Oct 10, 2009

      A great place to do research, but a lot depends on your research group and professor.

      Graduate research assistant
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      Pros

      Talented and creative coworkers. World class education focusing on problem solving skills and technical understanding. Great student culture (undergraduate). Tremendous opportunities that are easy to take advantage of, due to the huge and easily reachable pool of brilliant thinkers and world-class researchers (simple enough to schedule an appointment with a professor and discuss your idea). Great opportunity to network for the same reason.

      Cons

      Recent events resulting from the recession have shown the disconnect between the administration and the students/research community. Your experience depends a lot on the characteristics of the group you work with. I've worked with professors who are very quick in giving very strong feedback on how you are doing or can improve, and also with professors who don't communicate at all and get upset afterwards when I didn't do what they wanted. Compared to the cost of living in Boston, graduate RA stipends are a joke.

      5.0
      Sep 13, 2009

      A good place to do original research

      Graduate research assistant
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      Pros

      As a graduate student: - Resources are plentiful. IT, facilities, libraries and the rest have most of everything one could need. Shared instrumentation facilities are of high quality. - Size. The large size and variety of the work happening at MIT means that there are knowledgeable people in almost any relevant area that you can seek advice from. - Nerdy atmosphere and great variety in people. It is difficult to feel left out. - Nice campus and excellent recreational facilities

      Cons

      - Chief potential downside: Principal Investigators can be "hands-off" to the point that it is possible to get stuck in difficult / vague projects for extended periods of time. It is essential that you take initiative and exit or enter projects depending on your own judgement. - In some groups advisers can be ambitious in a way that translates into significant pressure on graduate students to put in lab-hours or achieve results. This depends from group to group.

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