As I stated a few days ago, my first MBA semester is over and I’m still contemplating what I will do next.   This semester I had a mixed bag of professors: one really great one and one marginally deficient on so many levels.   I do plan on taking two more classes next semester and was trying to figure out which professors to take for my classes.   I asked some of my classmates and they said the choice was fairly limited but most of them had choice words about who NOT to take for a particular class.

I thought I had read a story a few years ago about a new startup that would rate professors so I googled it and came upon www.RateMyProfessors.com and lo and behold I found almost every professor for my university listed in that website.    I checked my current two professors and lo and behold, the EXACT sentiments I had about the two professors were listed on the site:  One a complete bonehead loser, the other an undisputed diamond!

So considering the website reviews were perfectly in line with mine, I searched for next semesters professors and it looks like I will have a repeat of this semester: one golden professor and one less than stellar professor.   As you may be aware, at the end of each semester students are asked to fill out a survey form on what they thought of the class and professor.  What you may not know is that almost no universities release these surveys to the students and I couldn’t figure out why but then it all made sense.   Universities have little incentive to provide good professors because they cost more money!

Fortunately, the free market comes to the rescue, as in most instances, and RateMyProfessor is a god send.   While my choices are extremely limited for next semester, I plan on using it as a guide from now on and I encourage any college student out there that wants to get some value for their money check out the website!