Do not recommend

There is not much to say but RUN

Terrible professor, gets side tracked and goes down many rabbit holes for like 10 minutes every lecture. Oh, he also makes you pay for 3 different course materials about $225 in value. There are so many comparable platforms that are free or less expensive and just as nice as what he requires. He also says many ignorant things irrelevant to lecture.

Austin Boyle seemed great at first, but his class went downhill fast. He relies heavily on lectures, making attendance essential to grasp economics. His lectures are hard to follow, and the pricey course pack adds little value. His handwriting makes graphs tough to read, and grading errors were common. If you need to pass, don't take it with him.

Genuinely the worst professor I have ever had. His lectures made absolutely no sense and the examples he gave were so poorly explained. Exams are similar to the assignments, but he changes them to the point that you need to know the concepts, which he doesn't teach well. Even the TA was confused when I went to a guided study group. DONT TAKE HIM!!!

This was by far the most BORING and UNBEARABLE class that I have ever taken. Sitting through his lectures is on a whole different level of boring, you will start to lose your mind. The material itself is already boring but his lectures make it even harder to understand. On top of this you have to spend upwards of $150 on materials which is absurd.

had to drop this class. too caught up in the material to actually make sure his students understand. basically need to attend every class in order to score a decent grade on the midterms and he also uses packback polls in class. if you have the option, take this class through a community college online or just pick a different professor.

Always teach things unrelated to the course. No partial credits at all. Choose a different professor if you have any choices. I do not want to say something else just RUN!!!

He spends over half the lecture talking about things not related to economics or what will be on the exams. Study guide questions match up to exam questions, but still stuff on the exam not covered on the study guides. Attendance taken from packback questions, but you can do them outside of class so attendance doesn`t really matter on tuesdays.

By far the worst professor I have had at PennState. Creates study guides and says he has useful material to study exams, but never elaborates on these materials and they end up confusing students more. Exams are insanely hard and he spends most of class talking about irrelevant points that will not be on the exam. Do not take Econ102 with him

Took this class as a subplan credit. Boyle makes you pay over $150 in three "add ons" to the class. Exams are insanely difficult with the average on them being about a 65%. Topics in class literally don't correlate to the exams. Went to exam review session with TA and he did not even know what was going on. studied 15 hours and failed last exam.

Took this class and was lost during the lectures because of the random side topics he would discuss. When he was explaining graphs, you couldn't actually see what he was doing, mostly, and it seemed like he was talking to himself a lot of the time. Spent over $200 on this class for programs and an online textbook that was never used. Don't do it!!!

DON'T! Austin makes you spend over $200 on materials that you don't use. I have not once even laid my eyes on the text book. If you have to take this class study with the practice exams and explain the questions to yourself. He just talks to himself about random stuff in all his lectures and is the core reason of 95% of my crash outs this semester.

this man is the most frustrating professor i have ever met. he barely understands the class himself, then the exams come and they are the weirdest, application-based questions i have ever seen. he makes you pay $200 in class materials just for none of them to help you learn. take this class with any other professor you can. he is the worst.

I wish I did research before taking this class, because this is the worst professor I've had at PSU. I studied for 10+ hours for all of his exams and got 70's every time. The lectures are unhelpful, homework is also useless, and he doesn't teach by the textbook you're forced to buy. Take any other professor.

Genuinely the worst professor I've had at psu. The lectures SO boring & half of the time he's just rambling about something that barely has anything to do with the class. Spent 200 on course materials that I never used (including guided notes that were literally just the slides with fill in the blanks). TAKE SOMEONE ELSE

TAKE SOMEONE ELSE! I used every resource available to study for the exams and it did not help at all. The final was horrific and made no sense. On top of that you don't get to know what you got right and wrong unless you go to office hours which just isn't feasible for everyone. Please take anyone else!!! I don't know how this man has a job.

WORST EVER. I hate this man. There is SO much work. This is a basic econ course and he made it so much harder. 2 mid terms and 1 final. I got an F on 2/3 of the exams. He is TERRIBLE. Only reason I got a decent grade was because of how much work he gives. The lectures make no sense and he just rambles. Avoid this man at all costs.

Personally I just did not like the guy. He can be nice, but is also just rude and condescending at times. He also is not a good professor he goes through topics quickly making it hard to keep up. He also gets very sidetracked. The tests are very hard and there is a lot of homework. The class is doable though however if you keep up with the work.

Professor Boyle went off topic alot in class and it was hard to copy the graphs he made because his handwriting is hard to read. The slides he posts don't have the graphs so this made it hard to study on my own after.

Please do not take a class with him. drop it

All of his exams are hard, just buy the lion tutors. His final was not real, it was all multiple choice. Use chat gpt on every homework because he makes you come in class and do it with partners, then grades it for accuracy. Taking notes in class are pointless, I never used a single one.

I never leave reviews but he is one of the worst professors at Penn St... lectures are incredibly useless and a complete waste of time. He doesn't teach what is on the exams and his class is all over the place. He assigns lecture videos that cover things we learned a month ago and then talks about random stuff during class. Horrible teacher.

Don't do it.

If you have any other option, TAKE THEM. Professor Austin did not know how to teach economics and always spit bs in the classroom. His exams was far way different from what he taught in the class and the video lecture. He genuinely does not care about the students at all, too strict about small thing and it is ridiculous. dont choose him