University of Illinois at Chicago Employer Reviews

Overall a pleasant, but highly diverse, academic environment. Your experience may vary depending on which part of the university that you are associated with.

Nice environment, very interesting job. I learned how to use different software. The co-workers are very nice

I enjoyed working at the Student Centers. My immediate supervisor made me feel appreciated. My co-workers were supportive and made the environment easy to be a park of. I loved helping students, staff, faculty, and university visitors.

My typical day consisted of meeting with senior leadership of the three campuses to resolve compliance, accounting, business operations or other related issues.

I learned a lot about tax issues and compliance issues affecting colleges and universities. I learned to: develope and implement a strategic plan, to establish various metrics to monitor goals – more... and objectives, to deveolpe a master plan, to develope and implement various workshops for staff development.

There was nothing difficult about my job, i was constatnt learning and looking for collaborative ways of improving processes. – less

The research experience was great and very enjoyable. Most of my research was held from home and had weekly meeting for about two hours. The co-workers were very nice and understandable. Overall, the work environment was great. My knowledge expanded a lot and I was able to apply my school knowledge into the real life.

Great School in a world class city. The MIE department is equipped with state of the art equipment and wise advisors.

The University of Illinois at Chicago has provided me the opportunity to experience a atomsphere that lacks infrastructure. The institution does not support teamwork spirit which brings down the moral of the team as a whole. The physician I directly support has provided me a stable and health work environment. She supports professional growth and direct – more... her team with professionalism and respect. With the lack of structure this creates the difficulty for my job since confusion is easily created. With all the adversity in the institution I have learned to work and perform even when the situation is not perfect. – less

ENJOYED EVERY MINUTE WORKING FOR THIS COMPANY, ENJOYED HELPING THE PATIENTS

A typical day of work consist of working with HIV clients to advocate and assist them with their social service needs. I've learned how to assist this population by listening to their needs and going above and beyond to make their lifestyle more pleasant. The hardest part of the job is telling a patient that he/she has been exposed to the virus. The – more... most enjoyable part is watching a patient go from being depressed about their illness to learning to live with it and taking care of themselves. – less

I spent several years as Grad student in a protected environment. Teaching /Research Assistant jobs were assigned and easy to come by as Grad student. Moving to work in other departments brought fresh insights and different approaches. The management was reasonably easy to work with. The hard part of the job was having to finish work outside normal – more... hours sometimes. The most enjoyable part was meeting people and getting to know them as students. – less

The co-workers worked together like family. We got along very well and didn't mind helping one another.

The research was interesting and the work environment was positive. I was able to acquire many new skills and developed my managing skills being able to multitask doing research and managing all things related to the upkeep of the laboratory, as well as training and helping lab members in their projects.

Student IT Technician
 Resolved user hardware and software issues as part of the IT help desk.
 Monitored student labs and department IT resources.
 Performed daily quality control checks of multi-media equipment in the entire college

The University of Illinois at Chicago allowed me to:

Utilize my knowledge with encouragement, which is not always the case with other institutions.

University of Illinois at Chicago is an OK school. Professors all care about their own research, not about teaching. Department does not help you with your job searching.

I was a volunteer and assistant to a pharmaceutical research assistant in a lab at UIC - College of Pharmacy. My day started at 8 am to 5 pm. I assisted a Pharm.D and Ph.D student from France in studying more about the Echinacea plant species, conducting numerous TLC experiment with different solvent systems and analyzing results to compare the different – more... compounds that made up each species (eg. flavanoids, coumarins, tannins, flavanols etc). It was a very enjoyable experience and I learned a lot about the different methods of analyzing compounds and using new technology. It was a challenging and enjoyable experience for me as an undergraduate student. – less

Working in this laboratory has brought me many personal and professional benefits. Although some days are really demanding, all of us can still balance and manage our time to enjoy life.

A day on the job was unpredictable. The support of my co workers was amazing..we worked together like family.

The benefit is using time wisely, study with degree and work experience at same time. Not heavy load, much freedom when doing the work. Open the eyes because I can contact with a lot of people from different academic/professional area.

Co-workers are very nice, and the hardest part is waiting for client/ subjects to come for the service. The best and – more... unexpected part of this job is to become familiar with the specific surgery process in hospital. The most useful skills I learned is communicated with different people in health needs. – less

My position was an unpaid research position. This was part of my undergraduate and graduate research so I was compensated with an education and two degrees.