Top Academic Employers to Work For
Posted on December 19, 2011
The Scientist, a magazine covering the life sciences, has ranked the J. David Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco as the top Academic Employer to Work for in the U.S. for 2011.
The survey was based on over 2,200 respondents of Scientist magazine and on its website who are all full-time scientists and academic institutions or noncommercial research institutions.
The institutions were ranked based on unweighted average scores for the 9 major topic categories covered by the statements included in the survey. These categories are:
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1. Job Satisfaction |
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2. Peers |
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3. Infrastructure and Environment |
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4. Research Resources |
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5. Pay |
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6. Management and Policies |
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7. Teaching and Mentoring |
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8. Tenure and Promotion |
The Top 20 Academic Institutions to Work For in the U.S.:
1 The J. David Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, CA
2 St. Jude Children’s Research hospital, Memphis, TN
3 Fred hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
4 Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA
5 Children’s Hospital Boston, MA
6 Midwestern University, Downers Grove, IL, and Glendale, AZ
7 The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, OK
8 Donald Danforth plant Science Center, St. Louis, MO
9 Princeton University, NJ
10 Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK
11 Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, WA
12 Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
13 The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine
14 University of Oklahoma health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK
15 Georgetown University, Washington, DC
16 The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
17 H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL
18 Trudeau Institute, Saranac Lake, NY
19 Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
20 West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
The Top 10 International Academic Institutions to Work For:
1 Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
2 INRA, Versailles, France
3 University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
4 Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
5 University of groningen, Netherlands
6 University of Dundee, Scotland, UK
7 hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario
8 University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
9 University of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK
10 University of Liverpool, England, UK
For the full results of the Scientific magazine survey, methodology, and past BPTW surveys are available online at www.the-scientist.com/bptw.
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