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MFIN 8815

Strategic Finance for Higher Education · 1 instructor on record · 2 sections

What the course score is made of

97BC evaluations2 records · weight ×1.0 · Spring 2024 – Spring 2026

—Student reviewsno reviews — does not contribute

—RateMyProfessorsno ratings — does not contribute

That is the class itself, averaged across everyone who taught it. Who taught it, and how each of them scored, is the board below — that is what a student picking a section is actually choosing between.

What the challenge rank is made of

69thMore challenging than 69% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

93BC — “Intellectually Challenging”2 records · raw score out of 100

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

39thMore work than 39% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

50BC — “Workload”2 records · raw score out of 100

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.

The only instructor on record

2 sections · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge
John ZonaFinance Provisional	992 records	39th	69th

There is no ranking to read here: John Zona is the only instructor with evaluation records for MFIN 8815, so the number is a record, not a position. It rests on 2 records, which is thin — read it as provisional.

Also taught by John Zona

2 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
ELHE 7303Financial Management in Higher Education	13 records	87
MFIN 8810Financial Management in Higher Education	11 record	96

Other MFIN classes

All of them

Class	Instructors	Course score
MFIN 1021Fundamentals of Finance	1297 records	83
MFIN 1127Corporate Finance	983 records	80
MFIN 1151Investments	1172 records	82
MFIN 8801Investments	627 records	84
MFIN 2270Data Analytics in Finance	325 records	81
MFIN 8807Corporate Finance	1022 records	85

The line

All 13 items · means across 2 records

The Professor4 items

Clearly Explains MaterialThe instructor was effective at creating an understanding of difficult subject matter.

9988th pctl

Available Outside of ClassThe instructor was available for help outside of class.

9670th pctl

Brings Out Your Best WorkThe instructor motivated me to do my best work.

9883rd pctl

Sparked My InterestThe course stimulated my interest in the subject matter.

9879th pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

9467th pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

9785th pctl

Useful Beyond the CourseWhat I learned is applicable beyond this course.

9886th pctl

Assignments & Feedback3 items

Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.

9578th pctl

Gives Feedback PromptlyI received feedback on my work in a timely manner.

9359th pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

9674th pctl

Workload, difficulty & attendanceNot ratings

WorkloadHow 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.

5039th pctl

Intellectually ChallengingThe course was intellectually challenging.

9369th pctl

Attendance MattersAttending class was necessary to do well in this course.

9782nd pctl

Bar length is the rank against every comparable record we hold, not the raw score: BC's questions all have a median around 4.5, so a raw-scale bar would be nearly full on every row and would tell you nothing. 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

2 sections · newest first

Instructor	Term	Sec	Instr	Course	Work
John Zona	Spring 2026	01	98	94	40
John Zona	Spring 2024	01	100	100	60

How to read this boardInstructors 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.