Go to the best ranking school you can get in to but make sure your adviser is someone you like and can work with - PhD Candiade Columbia University Employee Review

Users say... "Columbia and the Business School are great to work for because of the benefits and the people." "The people are great and it's a pleasure to work with students" "Flexible hours and in an understanding environment while being able to develop real world skills." "Flexibility and good work life balance" "The campus is beautiful and being in an academic environment in NYC is wonderful" 

Users say... "The pay can be low and slow" "low salary very far from my home not much increase yearly not much chances of growth departments are not well interconnected" "extremely low on pay and poor management" "Senior leadership can be difficult to deal with." "If you get a bad manager, not much can be done."