How accurate is Rate My Professors?

skieurope
Thu, 13 Nov 2014 21:56:43 +0000

Not that all the professors there are perfect, but I bet you they can speak english!!

Spoken by someone who has not taken a course at a top-tier college.

All professors speak English; whether you understand their accent is a different story. At HYPMS, even if the instructor is US-born and you can understand him/her perfectly, there is no guarantee that you will not have a TA leading the discussion sections who is not a native English speaker.

Back to the original question, many universities have their own guide which may be more useful that RMP as all students in a particular course are given the evaluation. Examples include Harvard’s Q guide. As with RMP, the value added will be dependent upon the number of respondents and the quality of the reviews.