Ujjwala Lahoti has a routine when deciding what classes to take. The UB senior accounting major goes online, looks up the course she is considering and notes the name of the professor teaching a class ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook A red chili pepper that indicates the “hotness” of a professor may be a deciding factor for some ...

RateMyProfessors.com is a website – now owned by MTV – that fills a strange space in the mindset of the academic community. At its best, it is a forum for students to honestly and anonymously evaluate ...

Instructors have little to lose by responding to student criticism on RateMyProfessors.com, a new study suggests, and what they say could actually end up having a positive impact on student ...

There are professors who find student comments on their end-of-semester evaluations so upsetting that they cry after reading them. If my course evaluations have tended to be pretty good, I can still ...

Ratemyprofessors.com, the ever-popular website come pre-registration time, ranked Georgetown 13th on its list of highest-rated universities this week. Based on ratings and comments from students, the ...

This is one of the reasons "RateMyProfessors.com" is not a useful resource, the metrics are stupid. You also end up with rankings mostly based on how easy a course is rather than anything else because ...

Just browse the Web site, ratemyprofessors.com, and you will see many students praising or panning UC Davis faculty based on their classroom experiences. There is no denying the popularity of sites ...

When a colleague told me last year about a free Web site, RateMyProfessors.com, that allowed students to post ratings of their professors from colleges across the country, I was happy to hear it. I ...