SUNY Albany Reviews

Get used to the idea of "do more with less". Never expect to be rewarded for anything. All positions on campus are essentially dead-end. Don't expect pay raises or promotions. The higher ups in the chain don't care about you or what you do, and you will be lucky if your direct management does. No one really seems to care on campus and those that do are just put down. For as many hard-working employees, there's 2-3x the amount of lackluster employees. Management is filled with lots of egotism. There's a LOT of negativity on-campus from employees, try to work around it or ignore it. The Union does protect those negative and lackluster employees which is shame to those who work hard and strive for more.

Management is bloated. Countless Vice Presidents, Senior Vice Presidents, Associate Vice Presidents of innumerable different functions. Pay is not commensurate with other, more prestigious schools, in the area which the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering is striving to be compared with. The research is directed primarily to support the activities of the companies who rent space here. You feel more like a low-rent employee of these companies doing research which isn't very exciting. The curriculum is not challenging and the degree does not hold weight outside of the consortium of companies operating here. The faculty is VERY green and does not have much experience directing graduate students.