UC Riverside reviews

Overall is good. However, the nano fabrication tools are not very strong. You should do some part of the experiments at University of California Los Angeles and other places. It helps to communicate with other places but it takes time to go back and forward.

The workload can vary greatly based on the course you are assigned and the professor teaching the course. The majority of my TA assignments were positive as professors were organized and had reasonable expectations for TAs. However, I had two extremely negative experiences where the professors were completely disorganized to the extent that as a TA I needed to try and impose structure on the course and clarify the professor's ambiguous assignments and "suggest" extensive modifications to ill conceived syllabi, which is an awkward position to be in as a TA. If the university or departments could provide guidelines on how to handle such situations it might be helpful, although I have the sense that nothing can/will be done as both professors are notorious for their disorganization and poor teaching quality within the department.