Working at Penn State University in University Park, PA: 27 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in University Park, PA Area

"Very knowledgeable and supportive advisor. Nice work environment. Highly educated teammates."

"Good place to work for research"

"Penn State University is a great place to work. Especially, Materials Science program has overall great ratings. Great sources for your work and very friendly staff."

"Very good company. Learned a lot about the finite element method!"

"I have worked at Penn State Law as a research assistant with professor Andrea Matwyshyn. My tasks consisted mainly in conducting research in the Information Security Law field. I have found it a very pleasant experience as the professor is very knowledgeable and provides great guidance."

"Good university to work with"

"Great company, with a great impact to clients."

"Great educational university where the work environment was great and the university culture was great and informative."

"I have worked for Penn State for just over 2 years. The University is a strong employer in the region. My experience working here has been very good, though making the change from the business world to the higher ed world has come with some challenges. The nuances of the University and how the size and scope of the business affect everyday business are something to get accustomed too."

"I worked as an intern for the Systems Administrator at the Pennsylvania State University School of Information Sciences and Technology. I found it to be a great way to learn the day-to-day operations of an IT admin during a normal school year."

"As an internship, CLC was rather disappointing. I did not learn as much as I would have hoped and would have gained more from other opportunities, and many times we would sit around doing nothing. That being said, there is currently a great team working at CLC that is very friendly."

"I worked as an IST Learning Assistant for a web development course at Penn State for one semester. My main duty was to help teach students how to make web apps with HTML/CSS, PHP, and MySQL. The Penn State workplace for me consisted of a classroom with brand new computers and software to help me and the students create anything they could imagine. I have nothing but great things to say about the whole experience. If I was still in school I would easily continue working as a Learning Assistant."

"The environment for graduate study at Penn State is really good."

"Had fun, it was great work and really did teach me a lot of new material."

"I am a post doc scholar for Jun Zhu in the Physics Department at Penn State. Jun runs a good lab in doing electron transport in graphene and materials beyond."