University of Alberta Reviews

Pros

Flexible hours - great colleagues

Cons

International Student fees are a lot higher

Advice to Senior Management

Improve communication across Faculties (regarding events, workshops, seminars, talks)

Pros

Clinical staff is very knowledgeable and experienced, great teachers.

Cons

Direct management is unfair and people are bullied.

Advice to Senior Management

Show respect and improve retention policies

Pros

University's do great and good things you can proudly participate in. You can contribute to making the world better.

Cons

Senior management is not very competent. uAlberta needs to be more humble and efficient. People management could be improved.

Advice to Senior Management

Administer the organization using 21st century tools and thinking. Let academics be academics, but don't let them make uAlberta inefficient.

Pros

1. Get a degree
2. Get work permit in Canada if you are not citizen and PR
3. Learn knowledge and know some friends

Cons

1. Very low salary
2. Long work time
3. Unfair for students in different deparments

Advice to Senior Management

Please improve the salary for research assistant. Please give the fair treatment including salary, vacation for all graduate students. This is pretty important for all the students.

Pros

Benefit is excellent! Lots of time off. Relatively stable. Great location.

Cons

Salary is about or below average. Can be political. Not as exciting since a lot of people working here are more or less just waiting for their retirement.

Advice to Senior Management

Business process needs to be re-engineered to improve efficiency.

Pros

Good weather, nice location, lots of resources for students and staff. The other students and postdocs are really great to work with.

Cons

Being a postdoc is terrible everywhere, but they really are treated as non-entities with almost no rights or status at the U of A.

Advice to Senior Management

Find some way to get postdocs higher status and better benefits. They really are a good resource for lab management and research advancement if they are employed correctly.

Pros

Quiet place, kind people, sufficient resource, lots of activities; The researching level of Computing Science department is really good comparing with other schools in Canada

Cons

Teachers and professor here sometimes is so mean to their students, the requirements to students is high, so be prepared to do some hard work, otherwise don't come

Advice to Senior Management

The President of this university is too too too much comparing with other presidents in Canada universities, and students get too little financial aids

Pros

It gives you experience in the workplace and you learn how to do certain things such as how to properly stock shelves and it helps you get used to handling money and counting.

Cons

There are not many downsides in university of Alberta hospital. The only downside is when people look upset, are crying or are sick.

Advice to Senior Management

I feel that you are doing a great job with management and dealing with situations, everything is working out very well since I began my work there

Pros

every body is super nice and willing to help you with your own problem

Cons

too slopy, need more efficiency and hard core work circumstance.

Advice to Senior Management

It's great, need some more efficiency

Pros

Wonderful campus with lots of activity, lots of staff appreciation activities and plenty of opportunities for advancement. Lots of learning and growth opportunities.

Cons

Some snideness from "higher ups", when they feel you are not at a "higher level of learning" such as themselves.

Advice to Senior Management

Be sure you are treating all of your administrative assistants with respect and the opportunity to grow professionally and personally.