<p>here are the average professor ratings on ratemyprof. these are all large schools, so the data confidence is very high</p>
<p>Berkeley: 3.37
Harvard: 2.95
Stanford: 3.0
Princeton: 2.85
Yale: 2.59
UCLA: 2.91
MIT: 2.33</p>
<p>all of you that wines about the professors being bad teachers, need to ****</p>
<p>credits to flutterfly_28 for the stats</p>
<p>Maybe students at Berkeley have lower standards? :D</p>
<p>doubt it, knowing how much we b1tch about this</p>
<p>Found this out last year. Was amused.</p>
<p>That said, the Physics department here is run pretty horribly.</p>
<p>I’m amused too.<br>
Currently nearly all my professors are really good at teaching.</p>
<p>MIT - 2 .33 holy ****.</p>
<p>Berkeley also has pretty hot GSI women:</p>
<p>Berkeley: 4.65
Harvard: 2.36
Stanford: 4.1
Princeton: 2.44
Yale: 2.32
MIT: N/A (no women on campus)</p>
<p>Source: my head</p>
<p>I find that top schools have little or no attractive women. I guess the same can be said for the guys</p>
<p>lol @ the OP’s reasoning skills and BioE25’s post</p>
<p>We’re happier with our professors than they are with theirs. I’m pretty sure the TC wasn’t THAT serious.</p>
<p>Wow…citing Ratemyprofessor? To prove that Berkeley is up with the Ivy Leagues? This is exactly why Berkeley gets bashed a lot on CC–its because people like you are so bent on putting up on a pedestal. My experience with MIT professors are awesome. I have no reason to believe data on “RateMyProf”.</p>
<p>And you are ■■■■■■■■ the Cal forum…why?</p>
<p>As a freshman, I’ve obviously only had a few college professors (and none at any other universities), but I can’t really imagine better professors than the ones I’ve got this semester (especially Denis Auroux for Math 53 and Martin Head-Gordon for Chem 4a). I’m not surprised that the ratemyprofessor ratings are so high here.</p>
<p>^^ How am I ■■■■■■■■? I’m simply pointing out a fact. There really is no point to this thread. </p>
<p>This thread exists because someone is insecure that Berkeley profs aren’t as good as the Ivy League ones. To make himself better, he posts some random data from an unreliable source which misleads everyone. That’s just sad.</p>
<p>I think that posting in a thread to claim that there’s no point to the thread can be considered ■■■■■■■■. </p>
<p>You’re making an assumption about why the OP is posting. Maybe he wants to refute the idea that some people have that Berkeley professors are in general worse than Ivy League professors?</p>
<p>Plus, it feels like you’re just discrediting the data because MIT has the lowest number. Nobody is saying that ratemyprof ratings are the definitive measure of professor quality.</p>
<p>@MrPrince: you are being accused of being a ■■■■■ because there’s no reason why you’re posting in this forum except to insult the people who cited a source that says MIT professors aren’t very good. And furthermore, your post claiming that you’ve had only good experiences with professors at MIT is no more reliable than ratemyprofessor.com. </p>
<p>Anyway, my experience with professors has been mixed. At FPF, I had a great Math 1B and English R1B professor, but they fell into the lecturer category, so I’m not sure what’s up with that. </p>
<p>On campus, I’d say my E10 and CS61B professors have been good, but every other class has been sub-par. At Berkeley, I think that when a professor is good, they’re REALLY good. Otherwise, they’re pretty bad.</p>
<p>@MrPrince </p>
<p>And what exactly is this “fact” that you are proving? </p>
<p>If you’re going to say that nothing can be proved from this data, you’re going to have to come up with a convincing explanation that explains the bias in this trend. (Grade deflation at Berkeley, for example, would be a good argument for the reverse trend).</p>
<p>The fact that these numbers are averages of thousands of ratings, even for the smaller schools, and the fact that the differences are not small at all (>20% between Berkeley/MIT) means that the numbers are statistically significant. Not completely accurate, but still significant.</p>
<p>Yes I have taken and received an A in a Stats class here and I could probably calculate a z-score for you. Or you could stop ■■■■■■■■ and make life easier for everybody.</p>
<p>I like my current Math 53 professor Evans and my Physics 7A professor Yildiz (his Turkish accent is so awesome, I kinda wish I chose Auroux just for the fact that he has a French accent). My GSI who teaches South Asian R5A is also nice and my Comp Sci 61A professor Harvey is my favorite with his witty cynicism. Oh wait I guess that means I like all my professors right now lol.</p>
<p>Also they all do a good job teaching complicated concepts in an understandable manner imo</p>
<p>Wait wait, Yildiz??? As in, Yildiz who lectures almost exactly from the book and spends all the time doing many many examples?</p>
<p>^lol yeah but the other guy (Spelio) does that too, except Yildiz gives midterm questions that he’s taught and has a cool accent, thus averaging him out to be a good professor imo. Although Speio’s exams are more fun to attempt but that second midterm would have probably stressed me out on midterm day if I had to do it.</p>
<p>Robert Reich.</p>
<p>Nuff said.</p>