Rutgers University reviews

more expensive in housing than many other places

The University administration does not give a rats ass about you. They care much more about the football program. This is a relatively high cost of living area. For most of the time I've been here the university has had us on salary freeze while the cost of living has steadily gone up. They even got funding for salary increases and they decided to spend it on the football stadium instead. The freeze was bad enough that about a year before it ended new postdocs were starting at considerably higher salaries than people hired before the freeze. We ended up having to form a union to get the bastards to unlock the freeze, then while negotiations were going on they decided to give all non-unionized employees an unprecedented Christmas bonus while employees like the postdocs that were part of unions got nothing. I think this was their way of punishing people for unionizing.