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 2020, 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 I love how passionate and considerate you are. You really care for your students learnings and success. You are a master of this content and really love to do it, and we can all tell!; You are very easy to talk to and help with problems directly when we had them in class and via email. Thanks for your great responsiveness and care for your students, it means so much to us.
2 The level of accessibility that Professor Lei affords to students is phenomenal. Recording class lectures, hosting office hours every day between him and the T&A, and providing more resources to the students on the website was instrumental to my learning in this class. I wish more professors put in the level of effort that Professor Lei does to help students learn. Thank you!
3 Professor Lei was extremely knowledgable in all topics we covered in this class. He did a great job of going in depth with the topics and helped the class understand these topics with good examples and exercises.
4 I really appreciate on the material given in the course website. Everything about the course can be found there also extra material for student who want to extend their knowledge are available there. I would like to say that Prof. Qin is very well prepare and provide student with everything that is related to the class. Even the basic for those who are not familiar with subject can be found in the course website. The material provide by Prof Qin is valuable and I would love to attend more class teach by him. Lastly Prof. Qin is very active and helpful, I am very confident that he will reply my email within 1 day even when the subject is not important such as problem submitting assignment.
5 I came into this class without any financial modeling experience and very little idea of what lay ahead of me. Despite being a 1.5 credit class, I learned a lot through real–world modeling examples. I feel confident pursuing a career and employing financial modeling skills.
6 Qin is eloquent and a strong teacher. I enjoyed the course!
7 the course is well equipped with material for self study and has great examples of different type of model. Additionally, the course is very relevant for real world application.
8 I learned more about valuation in this course than in the valuation course. I learned how to build an LBO from scratch instead of how to fill in blanks on a spreadsheet.
9 The professor is extremely well prepared for this class. He has its own web page with all the content organized for each topic, class, final project, etc.
10 I really appreciated the context that was provided about the modern financial system with respect to our modeling exercises.
11 Qin was very good about communicating expectations, resources, and suggested timelines. It was made very clear that assistance would be made available to those who sought it out.
12 1. Hands–on learning; 2. The balance between breadth and depth of topics; 3. Consistent support by professor
13 Professor Lei was very well organized and has a lot of supplemental material to help students be successful.
14 I really liked going through the exercise of building an LBO from scratch for the project. Being able to put hands on the keyboard and get into the model ourselves was really helpful
15 The professor and TA are really accessible outside of the classroom, and I fully respect the professor and TA’s efforts. Also, the material and class recordings helped a lot when student missed some parts of the material.
16 The support from the professor and the TA outside of class.
17 The final project is very useful.
18 Liked practicing models. Applicable to real life/job.
19 The modeling practices are definitely helpful.
20 Enjoyed all of the modeling in the class
21 weekly assignments and trivia solidified our weekly learning.
22 Professor Qin and the TAs had office hours almost daily in order to help with the final. As long as you stuck to his suggested timeline and utilized his office hours, you could still complete the project.
23 The professor’s and TA’s availability outside of class.
24 Well organized materials and sites.
25 Very useful for my future job hunting
26 Course website contains all the material for the class preparation and review
27 I really appreciated Prof. Lei holding in–depth review sessions to continue learning outside of the classroom.
28 The professor is pretty patient!
29 Charismatic professor
30 The course help a lot in understanding LBO & M&A better; Great excel models
31 The hands on learning.
32 Good practice examples.
33 Qin has consistent emails to keep students well informed. He provides all the tools for students to be well educated and prepared.
34 Lots of available content to learn the material.
35 Teacher, courseload was fair. Final Project was useful.
36 Clear lecture
37 Structured
38 Relevant questions
39 Experience modeling.
40 Very practical

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