Student Comments
Many students have provided very encouraging comments at the end-of-term evaluations, and here is a collection of comments. Listed below are student comments for just one course.
In Winter A 2017, I taught Financial Modeling, an MBA level elective course at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business. Here are some nice things my students said about this course.
| 1 | Best teacher I have had at Ross! Ever! Ever! Ever! |
| 2 | He is the best professor I have ever had at Ross. His teaching is so clear and inspirative. Love him! Love this course! |
| 3 | It is a perfect class. The professor encouraged us a lot and he is always there to help. I will definitely recommend this course to other people. |
| 4 | Overall the course website is a fantastic trove of resources and Prof. Lei includes content both directly related to the course subject plus broader context, which is helpful and interesting. It also makes the course very organized. Prof. Lei clearly puts a lot of energy into his communications with students, and makes a strong appeal for putting in the effort and rewards of this class. He really makes himself available, up to hosting office hours every day of the week leading into finals. The templates are very helpful in building incrementally on the concepts that we learn in class. |
| 5 | Professor Lei is very responsive and helpful. The contents included in this class are very practical and useful. Love this class! |
| 6 | Great combination of theory and spreadsheet exercise. Provide a lot of useful reading & resources. Professor is really dedicated and enthusiastic about helping us. |
| 7 | Thank you very much for kindly teaching us, with your lecture, I became interested in Finance. Thank you again. |
| 8 | I think professor Qin showed an extraordinary knowledge and interest in the quality of this course.He responded very quickly to all of the questions related to the course and was willing to help the students by arranging multiple question hours. |
| 9 | I enjoyed working on the models in class. It helped me learn much better than just listening to a presentation. This class is more relevant than most for future bankers and consultants. |
| 10 | Qin Lei is a very knowledgeable professor with a great heart. He goes an extra mile to help students that are in doubt with something related to his course. |
| 11 | The course website is very organized and provided with me almost all the materials I need. Professor Lei is very organized and he recorded videos for each class, making it much easier for me to review the content if I missed anything in his class. I had no finance background and I remember when my learning experience with my Valuation course last year was very painful, but now with the financial modeling class, I feel many confusing concepts get much clearer for me! Getting hands dirty on speadsheet really helps me understand those concepts. |
| 12 | Overall, it is a great course. I appreciate Professor Lei’s hard work. His energy and devotion really surprised me. |
| 13 | Great class, great professor! |
| 14 | I like how he provides extra office hours to help students with the model. I also like how he sends out announcement and recorded lectures online to keep us following the paths of the course. |
| 15 | the trivia is helpful to get hands-on experience, and groups are helpful. I liked the linked income/balance sheet/cash flows; that was helpful for my other finance classes that didn’t teach that. I also liked the iterative method instead of goal seek. The video recording was also helpful since you go through the excel sheet really really fast |
| 16 | I thought that the models used in class were useful for understanding the material and I thought it was useful that he recorded all sessions and put them online. Additionally, I liked the use of the course website. |
| 17 | The instructor is well-prepared, organized and enthusiastic, and the course is really helpful. |
| 18 | Great class. Definitely useful. |
| 19 | very insightful instruction |
| 20 | This is a great course. Thank you professor! |
| 21 | Prof. Qin goes above and beyond to help students understand the material and model better. It’s a tough subject to teach. |
| 22 | Appreciated for your thoughtful and insightful lectures as well as course materials that will be useful in my actual business scene |
| 23 | Professor Lei spent a lot of time with us on modeling exercise, and he taught us many useful tools like some functions in excel and factset. |
| 24 | Professor Lei is clearly very interested in the course content and is willing to assist students at any point. |
| 25 | The material is hard but the professor is welling to help. |
| 26 | I have not modeled before, so for me it was beneficial to come through whole process and learn the most important aspects of FI. It was challenging and thus I spend the most hours for this course although it was only 1.5 credits. Nevertheless, I am happy it was a good course. |
| 27 | The introduction and exposure to different models and step by step examples of those were really helpful |
| 28 | The professor explained well how to calculate NPV, IRR, and how to think about LBO. These information made me understand and became interested in it. |
| 29 | Getting a better feel for working in Excel with models that I will undoubtedly be using this summer at the bank. |
| 30 | The course website was unbelievably well organized. Materials and supplemental materials were very easy to find. |
| 31 | Now I can understand how financial statements were inter related deeply. |
| 32 | Prof Qin is very approachable and has many office hours available to help students clarify questions. He would record his lectures and put them online for our reference. |
| 33 | I like the bonus files which professor provides us. |
| 34 | Lots of information, learned a bunch |
| 35 | I think it was useful to further understand concepts that were taught during fast track. The content is great and it covers a wide range of financial models. |
| 36 | The professor gives a very detail illustration on the content and provided a good database of learning materials. The trivia question is very suitable as a exercise. |
| 37 | Videos and bonus material really useful |
| 38 | Love the financial modeling part a lot because they are very practical. |
| 39 | Many of the functions on excel were useful to learn. |
| 40 | The videos and trivia are great. |
| 41 | Great materials, almost too much. |
| 42 | The exercises are good to learn how to model. |
| 43 | Well structured. |
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