Carney Curve

Boston College course evaluations · Fall 2021 through Spring 2026, ranked class by class

How this list is ordered

Positions account for how many records stand behind each number, so one perfect review does not outrank a semester of them. Every score shown is the real average — only the ordering is adjusted.

Class record · ECON · MCAS

ECON 2240

Work, Life and Retirement in Ireland and the United States · 1 instructor on record · 1 section

How the curve score is built
99Teaching100 raw · 100th percentile of BC classes
±0Easiness adjustmentworkload not reported — takes nothing off the score
99Curve scorethe teaching curve — nothing added or taken off

Boston College's ratings are bunched at the top — the median instructor averages about 88 out of 100 on the raw scale, and 44% of them clear 90 — so a raw score cannot separate anybody. Every figure here is ranked against BC classes and that rank is re-expressed out of 100, which is what turns a raw 88 — the middle of the university — into a figure that says where somebody actually stands. On this scale 77 is the median, 84 the top quarter and 91 the top tenth. Workload is then an adjustment on top of that, worth nothing at all for an ordinary one. Boston College's workload question was not reported in these records, so easiness could not be worked out. That is missing data, not a heavy class — and it takes nothing off the score.

What the course score is made of
100BC evaluations1 record · weight ×1.0 · Summer 2023
—Student reviewsno reviews — does not contribute
—RateMyProfessorsno ratings — does not contribute

The class itself, averaged across everyone who taught it — who taught it is the board below.

How is this worked out?

That is what a student picking a section is actually choosing between: the board carries each instructor's own score for this class, and the score above is the class averaged across all of them.

What the challenge rank is made of
—BC — “Intellectually Challenging”1 record — does not contribute

Not reported in these records — which is missing data, not an easy class.

How is this worked out?

Boston College's “intellectually challenging” question was not reported in these records, so there is nothing to show. That is missing data, not an easy class.

What the workload rank is made of
—BC — “Workload”1 record — does not contribute

Not reported in these records — which is missing data, not a light class.

How is this worked out?

Boston College's workload question was not reported in these records, so there is nothing to show. That is missing data, not a light class.

The only instructor on record

1 section · nobody else has taught itFull record
InstructorCurveEasinessChallengeRMP overall
Matthew RutledgeProfessor of the Practice · Economics Provisional99100 raw · 1 record——9026 ratings · all classes

There is no ranking to read here: Matthew Rutledge is the only instructor with evaluation records for ECON 2240, so the number is a record, not a position. It rests on 1 record, which is thin — read it as provisional. The RateMyProfessors figure is their overall score across everything they teach, not their score in this class.

Also taught by Matthew Rutledge

5 other classes
ClassInstructorsCourse score
UNCS 2245First-Year Topic Seminar32107 records89
ECON 1151Statistics2797 records72
ECON 2201Microeconomic Theory1967 records71
ECON 2242Public Policy in an Aging Society28 records91
ECON 3242Economics of Aging13 records92

Other ECON classes

All of them
ClassInstructorsCourse score
ECON 1101Principles of Economics46223 records73
ECON 2228Econometric Methods33131 records71
ECON 1151Statistics2797 records72
ECON 2202Macroeconomic Theory2072 records69
ECON 2201Microeconomic Theory1967 records71
ECON 9900Third Year Thesis Workshop1440 records91

The line

All 13 items · means across 1 record

Nothing reported

None of the evaluation questions were reported for these records.

Game log

1 section · newest first
InstructorTermSecInstrCourseWork
Matthew RutledgeSummer 202301100100—
How to read this board

Instructors are ranked on their record in this class only, never on their average across everything they teach. Scores are out of 100 — Boston College's 1–5 agreement scale, ×20, the way these numbers were printed for years. Workload is BC's own five-band figure, not a number of hours, and is shown as a rank. A dash means the question was not reported, and is never a zero.