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Livable wages, decent advisors - Doctoral Student Worcester Polytech Employee Review

4.0
24 Nov 2020
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Pros

The minimum pay is livable if you look around enough for an apartment, or if you are okay with roommates. The quality of your time here is dependent on who you have as an academic advisor. Most are really fantastic.

Cons

Your pay could fluctuate yearly and the insurance plan isn't guaranteed to remain consistent, which means some years you could have fantastic insurance and other years, the insurance may cover barely anything.

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5.0
22 May 2026
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Pros

Flexible, great professors, strong union

Cons

Project oriented, benefits ok for graduate worker but not great

4.0
24 June 2026
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Pros

Can be pretty easy if most of your work is office hours. I had about seven hours a week and most of the time there weren't many students.

Cons

Grading was a lot harder than I expected. Pretty demoralizing honestly; a lot of clearly ChatGPT submissions (ECE programming class mostly with freshmen who'd never seen code before, so not surprising). Grading paper exams was fine.

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