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MFIN 1021

Fundamentals of Finance · 12 instructors on record · 97 sections

How the curve score is built

73Teaching83 raw · 35th percentile of BC classes

+1Easiness adjustmenteasiness 79 · 55 raw workload · lighter than 56% of BC classes

74Curve scorethe teaching curve +1 for the workload · at most ±6 either way

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. Lighter work than 56% of BC classes.

What the course score is made of

83BC evaluations97 records · weight ×1.0 · Fall 2021 – Spring 2026

—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

62ndMore challenging than 62% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

92BC — “Intellectually Challenging”97 records · raw score out of 100

Boston College's own “intellectually challenging” question. It is not a measure of difficulty, grading or workload.

How is this worked out?

Boston College's own “intellectually challenging” question for this class only — students answer it positively about courses that stretched them, so it measures intellectual challenge and NOT grading, workload or quality. Almost every BC class scores high on it, which is why it is shown as a rank rather than a score.

What the workload rank is made of

44thMore work than 44% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

55BC — “Workload”97 records · raw score out of 100

One of Boston College's five workload bands, not a number of hours. Higher means more work, not worse.

How is this worked out?

Boston College reports workload for this class only as one of five bands, not as a number of hours, and it does not publish what the bands mean — so this site will not translate it into hours. Higher means more work, which is not the same as worse.

This course was formally called Basic Finance.This course introduces the fundamentals of the areas of corporate financial management, money and capital markets and financial institutions.Corporate finance topics include the time value of money, the cost of capital, capital budgeting, financial analysis, and working capital management. Financial markets and institutions cover the role of financial intermediaries and instruments as they function in a complex economic system.

The board

12 instructors · ranked on this class onlyCompare the top 3

Find an instructor among the 12Filters the rows below. Positions are always against the whole class, so a rank does not change when the list is narrowed.

Scores are real averages. The order also accounts for how many records back each one — the count is under every score — so one perfect review does not outrank a semester of them. 4 of the 12 rows carry a mark saying so.

Rank	Instructor	Curve	Easiness	Challenge	RMP overall
1	Adam JorringFinance	8594 raw · 9 records	78±0 to the score	65th	949 ratings · all classes
2	Ran DuchinProfessor and Coughlin Family Professor · Finance	8493 raw · 10 records	75±0 to the score	64th	943 ratings · all classes
3	Mathias HaslerAssistant Professor of the Practice · Finance	7991 raw · 27 records	68−2 to the score	69th	9822 ratings · all classes
4	Cheng JiangFinance fewer records	8091 raw · 4 records	78±0 to the score	53rd	7610 ratings · all classes
5	Francesco D'AcuntoFinance Provisional fewer records	8191 raw · 2 records	—	—	—no page
6	Hanyi YiFinance	7688 raw · 8 records	73−1 to the score	43rd	8211 ratings · all classes
7	Leonard KostovetskyFinance Provisional	7185 raw · 2 records	68−2 to the score	66th	801 rating · all classes
8	Andrew Hession-KunzFinance Provisional fewer records	6785 raw · 2 records	49−7 to the score	69th	—no page
9	Hassan TehranianProfessor and Griffith Family Millennium Chair · Finance	7181 raw · 10 records	80+1 to the score	53rd	504 ratings · all classes
10	Arup GangulyAssistant Professor of the Practice · Finance	6678 raw · 5 records	74−1 to the score	81st	9446 ratings · all classes
11	Michael BarryProfessor of the Practice · Finance fewer records	6474 raw · 8 records	78±0 to the score	58th	—no page
12	Michele AndreolliAssistant Professor · Finance	6574 raw · 10 records	80+1 to the score	58th	5811 ratings · all classes

All 12 instructors listed.

3 of 12 rows are marked provisional: fewer than 3 records stand behind the number. That is thin evidence, not a bad instructor — the record count is in every row. The RateMyProfessors column is an instructor's overall figure across everything they teach, not a figure about this class.

How this board is built and 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. The comparison here is the class itself: a thin record is read against how this class was rated overall, not against the university.

Every instructor with an evaluation record for this class is on this board — it is not a top ten, and nothing is hidden behind a “show more”. Curve is the instructor's score for THIS class only, ranked against every instructor we hold and printed back out of 100, with the raw BC average underneath it; nothing on this board is an average across the other things they teach. Easiness is an adjustment on top of it, worth up to about ±6 — BC's workload item, ranked and turned over, so a lighter section gains and a heavier one loses, while an ordinary one changes nothing — and each row prints the adjustment, signed. The board is ordered on the same figure it prints, adjusted for how many records back it. Challenge is BC's “intellectually challenging” item shown as a rank against every class we hold; students answer it positively about courses that stretched them, so it is not a measure of difficulty or grading, and it is never marked better or worse.

That site has no course dimension, so its figure is shown for information and kept out of the ranking.

The line

All 13 items · means across 97 records

Instructor4

Course3

Feedback3

Workload & Challengenot ratings

Bars are ranks, not raw scores. Nothing here is graded good or bad.

What each item asks

Explains Clearly: The instructor was effective at creating an understanding of difficult subject matter.
Available: The instructor was available for help outside of class.
Motivating: The instructor motivated me to do my best work.
Sparks Interest: The course stimulated my interest in the subject matter.
Organized: The course was well organized.
Clear Goals: The learning objectives for the course were clear.
Useful Later: What I learned is applicable beyond this course.
Assignments: Assignments and exams contributed to my learning.
Fast Feedback: I received feedback on my work in a timely manner.
Useful Feedback: The feedback I received on my work was meaningful.
Workload: How much work the course took outside class, on Boston College's five-band scale — the band boundaries are not published, so this is not a number of hours.
Challenge: The course was intellectually challenging.
Attendance: Attending class was necessary to do well in this course.

Why these numbers are curved

Both the number and the bar are the rank against every comparable record we hold, printed back out of 100. BC's questions all have a median around 4.5, so on the raw scale every cell here would read in the high eighties and every bar would be nearly full — thirteen numbers that tell you nothing. Each cell prints its raw BC figure and its percentile underneath, so nothing is hidden by the transform. Every bar is one ink colour — nothing here is graded green or red. The hatched bars are not ratings at all: a higher number on either describes a different course, not a better one.

Game log

97 sections · newest first

Instructor	Term	Sec	Instr	Course	Work
Hassan Tehranian	Spring 2026	01	78	78	60
Hassan Tehranian	Spring 2026	02	89	79	40
Mathias Hasler	Spring 2026	03	93	89	60
Mathias Hasler	Spring 2026	04	94	88	60
Mathias Hasler	Spring 2026	05	87	83	60
Michael Barry	Spring 2026	06	73	71	40
Michael Barry	Spring 2026	07	71	71	60
Michael Barry	Spring 2026	08	64	70	60
Michele Andreolli	Spring 2026	09	85	82	40
Michele Andreolli	Spring 2026	10	73	79	60
Michele Andreolli	Spring 2026	11	89	84	40
Arup Ganguly	Spring 2026	12	76	71	40
Mathias Hasler	Fall 2025	01	95	88	60
Mathias Hasler	Fall 2025	02	95	92	60
Mathias Hasler	Fall 2025	03	93	89	60
Michael Barry	Fall 2025	04	79	77	40
Arup Ganguly	Fall 2025	05	82	79	60
Ran Duchin	Fall 2025	06	92	89	60
Ran Duchin	Fall 2025	07	94	87	60
Cheng Jiang	Fall 2025	08	92	86	40
Cheng Jiang	Fall 2025	09	93	88	60
Andrew Hession-Kunz	Summer 2025	02	88	86	—
Andrew Hession-Kunz	Summer 2025	03	83	85	100
Hassan Tehranian	Spring 2025	01	70	69	60
Hassan Tehranian	Spring 2025	02	75	73	40

Showing the first 25.

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.