3.0
1 Oct 2008
Current employee
Atlanta, GA
Recommend
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Business outlook
Pros
As a research assistant at Georgia Tech, you can earn a PhD and a somewhat livable income at the same time.
Cons
The system of biological, biomedical science, and engineering education at the level PhD is deeply flawed in the US. There is little oversight as graduate research assistants enter the fiefdom of an academic lab. Waste, abuse of power, manipulation, and mismanagement of graduate research assistants by driven, high profile academics unfortunately seems to be the rule, not the exception.