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Cleveland State reviews

3.9

73% would recommend to a friend

(576 total reviews)
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Ronald M. Berkman

61% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

Cleveland State has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 576 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Cleveland State 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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576 reviews
2.0
Oct 22, 2013

Staff members are scrambling to get out of here

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Pros

Free tuition (but limit of two courses per semester if your supervisor approves).

Cons

No longer feels like a college, now its runs like a corporation. Very top heavy....tons of VPs hired in at 6 figures while staff make 40K and can't get raises. Very little promotion from within, most jobs filled by outsiders. The SEIU Union does nothing to prevent this. Staff moral is at all time low. Most are trying to get jobs elsewhere and get out. Many departments run by faculty who have been professional students for years and have never worked real jobs. And no one really cares enough to find out right answers for students, hence the reason students are given several different answers.

3.0
Apr 8, 2013

Limited opportunities for advancement

Anonymous employee
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Pros

There are some really great, dedicated employees. Opportunities to use tuition assistance for faculty and staff for both credit courses as well as continuing education are excellent.

Cons

Anyone with an entrpreneurial spirit, and great ideas will find themselves drowning in bureacracy and mediocrity. The institution is so slow to change. All too often people who are underqualified, under motivated, and not working very hard are in positions of power, blocking the ideas and forward progress of more capable people below them.

1.0
May 20, 2024
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Pros

The MBA is significantly discounted to almost free. Hybrid work environment. Nice amount of vacation time, plus gov holidays and week off for Christmas.

Cons

Parking is $1200+ a year for one garage, water not included, employees must pay for that unless you want sink water. No raises unless you are VP level. Pay differences between levels of employees are huge.

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