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 B 2023, I taught Financial Modeling, a BBA 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 one of the most passionate professors at Ross I have had, he had a great teaching style and explained things clearly, always happy to answer questions as well.
2 Professor Lei is an excellent lecturer that displays a high level of expertise in the subject matter of the course as well as adjacent areas, making it possible to approach him with questions that go far beyond the core topic of the course. His enthusiastic style of teaching and encouraging manner make attending his class very enjoyable and discussing ideas and recent market developments always proves highly insightful. Moreover, he is very readily available to support students, contributing to a positive classroom environment.
3 The lectures were great to attend. I really enjoyed the content and the delivery. The LBO project was tough, but I had a great group and was able to get help from the TA and professor. I did find some value in the additional readings and should have taken the time to read them all, but the course website was very helpful! This is the second course I have taken with this professor and it was outstanding!
4 Professor Qin was never stumped by any question and there wasn’t a single topic I didn’t feel comfortable asking him as long as we were in a rush to cover something else.
5 Professor Lei demanded a lot out of students and made this a rigorous course, which it should be. I took this course to prepare for my career post-grad, and being constantly challenged to engage with difficult material and work through the problems on my own was the best way for me to do this.
6 The instruction. I specifically took this course because Qin Lei is a great proffessor. He is organized, consistant, and provides more than enough material and available support to succeed in his class. I guess thats why he’s paid the big bucks. The course website is very well designed and provides all of the aformentioned information on everything you need to know and more on course polocies, course logistics, course material, and how to get help if you are stuck.
7 Professor Lei was the most accessible professor ever and I can tell he really cares about his students succeeding.
8 This course really advanced my understanding of financial modeling. I like how our class examples were simpler versions of models where we could try them on our own, then go through them as a class. It let me gradually build up an understanding of how to complete the model on my own.
9 Great professor and good examples used. Especially liked the final project as it helped me learn what an LBO is much better.
10 Amazing, everything included slide decks, templates, and pace
11 Made me more comfortable being naturally uncomfortable working with difficult models.
12 Qin is a very patient man and is happy to answer questions at all times. The final project is also engaging and encapsulates a lot of topics from class.
13 The slides were very clear and there were plenty of examples that were accessible on the course page which I found helpful.
14 well organized lecture slides, material, and course website.
15 Extremely in depth coverage of the subject matter
16 Very action based learning!
17 Professor’s enthusiasm for the subject was extremely helpful in getting through the 3-hour sessions
18 The course is very versatile; We didn’t just learn about modeling and how to build a DCF or LBO model, we also learned a lot of things about corporate valuation (WACC calculation, Enterprise value, debt types, sensitivity analysis ...).
19 The content of the course was very interesting and advanced my knowledge of the subject a great deal.
20 The course described the process of building an LBO model in good detail.
21 The amount of office hours available for students was incredibly helpful in completing the final project.
22 Group project helps for the interviews as well.
23 Great materials / exercises prepared from the Professor
24 Really nice and caring professor.
25 I really liked how there is no one right way to get the proper result on the final project - this emulates the real world really well.
26 made accessing info very convenient
27 a lot of good practice for financial modeling in general (not necessarily LBO)
28 Really practical and applicable in work.
29 Lots of example excel tools available to use for concept understanding
30 The interactive excel models and how available extra help was.
31 rigor of modeling.
32 Very good.

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