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Tulane University reviews

4.0

67% would recommend to a friend

(1,582 total reviews)

Michael Fitts

70% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

Tulane University has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,582 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Tulane University 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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2K reviews
1.0
Sep 4, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

-Free MBA -Campus is pretty and nice to walk around when you need a break from how crappy your job is

Cons

-Salary is terrible, only reason anyone should work there is to get the free MBA. They were trying to get a web developer for 42k. In the private world, any decent web developer is 60k MINIMUM. -On that subject, management routinely slashes salaries by 10% when someone quits, so if you're applying for a job, you're probably making substantially less than the person before you. They call it the cost of "knowledge transfer" but when pay is so terrible, it'll take 5+ years to match that. -Don't expect any decent raises. -There's so much bureaucracy and nonsense, don't expect to get anything accomplished. People don't want to change what they're doing. They'll hide behind their job descriptions and refuse to do anything new -I don't know if the Tulane culture wears people down or if they join Tulane because they don't want to do much, but people here do the bare minimum. There are a few good people who actually want to do something right, but they usually leave or give up hope after a few years. -Health benefits are pretty mediocre for a school that owns a hospital network

1.0
Oct 12, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Children get to go to Tulane on a tuition waiver.

Cons

Tulane overworks its salaried employees. If someone leaves, work gets dumped on the remaining employees and the abandoned position typically doesn't get filled. Few raises. No room for advancement. When one does get a 2-3% raise, it doesn't come close to keeping pace with inflation. Increases in healthcare costs are pushed onto employees while the coverage gets worse. All in all, the tuition waiver is not worth the stress the job puts on the employee.

2.0
Oct 1, 2014

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Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits (currently); university setting can be pleasant and civilized

Cons

Poor pay scale with limited raises that don't keep pace with cost of living; repeatedly recurring discussions and rumors about significantly cutting the most attractive benefits; limited opportunities for growth; very limited advocacy for the "little guys"; attractive compensation for upper-most levels, not so great for the rest of us

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