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 2019, 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 Professor Lei is, in my opinion, the best professor at Ross. He presents difficult course material in interesting and easily understood ways. He bases his course on actual work we do when leaving Ross (something that sadly cannot be said of most professors). I would encourage his modeling course to become mandatory for any student taking a finance job.
2 I would recommend this course to anyone who wants to deepen their knowledge of how the three financial statements are related, how models used by IBs and PE shops are constructed, or if you are just generally interested in finance. This class is a lot of work, but you will be well rewarded with the knowledge you will learn. For example, the final project is very long and has a lot of intricacies, but after completing it, you will have advanced your knowledge of financial modeling to a whole new level. Also, Professor Qin is an awesome teacher and it is easy to see that he really cares about his students and wants us to succeed in learning the course material.
3 This is one of the best class I have taken at Ross. Challenging, yet fair. Professor Lei truly pushes his students, however provides them plenty of resources (including office hours and materials on his website). The course is designed incredibly well - I enjoy how he gives pdfs of solution without giving excel files. It gives students instantaneous feedback without giving the underlying solution. Great course!
4 This was the most organized class I have ever taken at Ross. The workload was evenly distributed throughout that it was never overwhelming.
5 The concepts were taught pretty well, and the project definitely made things challenging, but was a massive learning experience, and one I am proud to have accomplished with my teammates.
6 I thoroughly enjoyed Professor Lei’s energy, humor, and directness. The quarter-long leveraged buy out model served as a nice wrinkle for the course. Many of my peers also appreciated the weekly trivia questions--a nice way to implement concepts taught in class.
7 The professor’s course materials provided were extremely detailed and well-organized.
8 The professor’s teaching materials are excellent and he is well-prepared for every lecture like always. And the models he taught are interesting and useful.
9 The instructor is very knowledgeable, helpful, and clearly passionate about teaching this course.
10 Assignments were helpful to remind the concepts learned in class. Also, the instant feedback from the professor was impressive.
11 Enjoyed the final project. It has been the most real-world exercise I have completed at Ross to date
12 Professor Lei is an excellent lecturer in that he is extremely organized and methodical in the way he teaches. There is a great balance of lecture versus demonstration versus actually practicing skills that suits at least my learning style very well
13 The numerous examples that were done in class, as well as the significant extra resources on the course website, enabled students to practice on key topics before and after class. The professor also did an excellent job of offering help to students both in and out of class.
14 Very hands-on instruction about building financial models. Good final project and homework to help the student digest what was taught in the classes. Very organized website created by the instructor to replace Canvas.
15 1. Modelling exercises are really nice way to practice. 2. I struggled on the final project but actually really enjoyed doing it. I think this is a good part of the course to keep and even build into more robust exercise throughout the class. 3. Prof Qin is extremely structured and responsive in students’ learning process. Office hours were always helpful. Recorded lectures are good to prep before class and/or review afterwards.
16 Everything went pretty well in the course.
17 Prepare the course so careful and work so hard to help students
18 The instructor was very responsive to students’ questions.
19 Trivia Qs keep students engaged during the course. I like the continuous evaluation. Communication with students was very strong and there was lots of guidance and encouragement for the final project.
20 Generally, Professor Lei is very kind and helpful throughout the course.
21 Great course, excellent professor!
22 I like this course since I have learned a lot from it.
23 Thanks Prof Qin for a great semester. I decided to take this class because I thought it’s something I “should” know - but I actually enjoy the learning process more than I thought I would.
24 Great materials, exercises design, great final project
25 I loved learning in depth about how the three financial statements are related and modeling them out to see how they change in different scenarios: changes in sales, costs, financing structures, etc.
26 The online videos and resources were great supplements
27 Very organized, great support, learn a lot
28 Overall great to learn the financial modeling concepts.
29 Thanks for the wonderful class!
30 Very helpful class not only on modeling but also excel! Strongly recommend
31 Course provided a good learning experience to learn about an LBO model
32 Lots of available content to learn modelling.
33 Many materials available on the course website to support learning.
34 Trivia assignment every week was helpful. They were not too much but enough to review what we learned in the class in the week.
35 Keep working. I look forward to taking other courses by Qin Lei.
36 Thank you for a great quarter!
37 Weekly exercises helped us to apply what we learned in class, made learning more effective.
38 Well-organized materials and structured teaching method (preview materials+ lectures + TA / office hours + trivia questions)
39 I think he is pretty good.
40 We have opportunity to do different models

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