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Reviews198
Professors17
Quality3.64
Difficulty3.39
Difficulty rank#3
Quality rank#21

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Department rating summaries

Highest ratedThomas Arnold ↗3.82
Highest reported difficultyThomas Arnold ↗2.97
Lowest reported difficultyThomas Arnold ↗2.97
Highest rating relative to expectationsThomas Arnold ↗0.02
Most disagreement in ratingsThomas Arnold ↗1.61

Department standouts are subsets of eligible professor scores, not additional official awards. Quality and difficulty use Bayesian scores. Alpha is custom: positive means higher ratings than expected for difficulty, department, and year.

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18 professors · All time · 1+ reviews
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Professor ratings

Thomas Arnold

Finance · 29 reviews

Quality
3.8/5
Difficulty
2.8/5
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3.82
Adjusted difficulty
2.97
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0.02
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1.61
Andrew Szackmary

Finance · 3 reviews

Quality
4.7/5
Difficulty
2.3/5

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0.58

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Andy Szakmary

Finance · 14 reviews

Quality
2.8/5
Difficulty
3.9/5
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1.76

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Bo Meng

Finance · 14 reviews

Quality
4.1/5
Difficulty
3.5/5
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1.56

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Cassandra Marshall

Finance · 14 reviews

Quality
3.8/5
Difficulty
3.6/5
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1.31

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Christine Panasian

Finance · 7 reviews

Quality
2.3/5
Difficulty
3.0/5
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1.11

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David North

Finance · 17 reviews

Quality
2.8/5
Difficulty
3.8/5
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1.79

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Ge Wu

Finance · 11 reviews

Quality
4.3/5
Difficulty
2.6/5
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1.01

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Jerry Stevens

Finance · 11 reviews

Quality
4.0/5
Difficulty
4.0/5
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1.10

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John Earl

Finance · 15 reviews

Quality
2.7/5
Difficulty
4.5/5
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1.62

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Joseph Farizo

Finance · 8 reviews

Quality
5.0/5
Difficulty
4.0/5
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0.00

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Kevin Rutherford

Finance · 1 review

Quality
5.0/5
Difficulty
3.0/5

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Leo Plante

Finance · 2 reviews

Quality
1.0/5
Difficulty
5.0/5

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0.00

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Maura Alexander

Finance · 12 reviews

Quality
5.0/5
Difficulty
2.5/5
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0.00

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Mitchell Conover

Finance · 15 reviews

Quality
3.5/5
Difficulty
3.5/5
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1.55

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Nancy Tran

Finance · 11 reviews

Quality
4.6/5
Difficulty
3.1/5
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0.92

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Raymond Fishe

Finance · 11 reviews

Quality
2.4/5
Difficulty
2.6/5
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1.57

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Summer Liu

Finance · 3 reviews

Quality
4.7/5
Difficulty
3.7/5

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0.58

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ProfessorQualityDifficultyReviewsAdjusted qualityAdjusted difficultyCompare
Thomas ArnoldFinance3.832.83293.822.97
Andrew SzackmaryFinance4.672.333——
Andy SzakmaryFinance2.793.9314——
Bo MengFinance4.143.5014——
Cassandra MarshallFinance3.793.5714——
Christine PanasianFinance2.293.007——
David NorthFinance2.763.8217——
Ge WuFinance4.272.6411——
Jerry StevensFinance4.004.0011——
John EarlFinance2.734.5315——
Joseph FarizoFinance5.004.008——
Kevin RutherfordFinance5.003.001——
Leo PlanteFinance1.005.002——
Maura AlexanderFinance5.002.5012——
Mitchell ConoverFinance3.533.5315——
Nancy TranFinance4.643.0911——
Raymond FisheFinance2.362.6411——
Summer LiuFinance4.673.673——

Quality and difficulty sorts use scores adjusted for review count. Missing adjusted scores appear last. How ratings work ↗