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 2018, 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 The professor is excellent and very helpful. He explains things clearly without over explaining. I was only mildly familiar with finance and this class not only taught me about modeling but explained intuition behind important concepts that I had previously just memorized formulas for. The class wowed me!
2 The cases in the course are practical and close to real life. Well structured. The professor is very helpful and always patient to answer all the questions. Lecture resources are abundant and useful.
3 The professor did a fantastic job making himself available to help students
4 Being forced to do work in excel made me really learn concepts that I was supposed to learn in other classes (Valuations, accounting, Finance) but didn’t actually cement into my head. The prof is also really really accessible. I like the set up of the course too, with the final project and trivia. The class site is good too, because I could go and look at videos for concepts I didn’t get right away.
5 Excellent professor. He goes out of his way to make time for students and help them. Also, he is genuinely interested in dedicating himself completely to the learning of his students.
6 Outstanding professor. All students, even if they are not taking his course, should utilize him to master finance
7 Good layout, perfect slides, understandable content. Qin could use extremely simple familiar and simple cases to help us acquire some abstruse concept.
8 Instructor truly cares
9 I think I learned a lot about how to set up models and some good Excel techniques
10 Very useful course especially for students going to work in the finance industry soon.
11 Content was exhaustive; covered a lot of important concepts from basic and corporate finance, valuation. Trivia questions forced us to review each class’s concepts.
12 Professor took substantial amount of time outside class to address questions
13 The professor clearly cares about his students.
14 I really liked the practical application of the Excel modeling. The class is not based in theory, but in practical application. You also really learn how to use different excel functions and see how to link everything together. I feel I have a much better understanding of financial modeling going forward.
15 The final project was interesting and challenging, requiring to apply all the finance concepts.
16 The professor was available at many times to discuss the final project, etc. I now feel I could have a discussion about real-world finance, rather than just knowing the theoretical underpinnings. This class extends those to multiple years, multiple financing structures, etc. Glad I enrolled in this course.
17 This is an excellent course!
18 Building an LBO model from scratch was the best activity/project of the class.
19 Great skill set to learn at Ross - video and lecture website were great
20 I really liked how all the materials were available online
21 Very competent and relevant subject matter.
22 Overall a great and useful course.
23 Keep it coming. Instructor is proficient.
24 The materials are really helpful to me to master skills and knowledge in the course. And the instructor is really patient and willing to help us deal with difficulties.
25 Instructor well-prepared for class, always available outside of class, and provided comprehensive set of preparation materials
26 The final project is worth sparing time although only 20 points are allocated for the grade.
27 Overall it’s a very helpful course. Thank you for all. :)
28 Lecture from the basic concept; Well-organized assignment
29 The exercises were useful.
30 Trivia questions were a great way to gauge progress in the course and make sure that I was staying on top of all essential topics. Thank you for being so willing to stay after class to help us work through some of the models.
31 The in class examples were great and the trivia was helpful

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