I took this BCOR 3020 class for credit, this was the hardest class I have ever taken in my life. I am an excellent student. I spent 20+ hours a week studying for this class. 95% of your grade is purely based on exams. He is very condescending and is not invested in student success. AVOID AT ALL COSTS!!! Worst professor I have ever had!!!

The teacher is very well versed in finance, however, he is very condescending and rude to students. He makes tests that are harder than any study material you are given, even the study sessions with the TAs who are awesome don't seem to help. He doesn't have a lot of things to pad your grade from the final.

Professor is smart and knows what he is talking about. But he is bad at teaching difficult concepts. I studied a ton and did well in the class but it would be better to get a different teacher. He is very rude and makes fun of students who ask questions. My biggest concern with him is that he would teach different things that were on the tests.

This has been a horrible experience. Mike is so rude to students, does not let us ask for help, and ridicules us when we do. He knows lots about finance but literally scoffs when we don't understand. His homework (1 assignment per week) takes me around 5-6 hours to do (not including studying). He does not care to help us learn.

Very smart professor, but doesn't really care about students. There have been several times where there were mistakes on homework that made the problem impossible to complete, and he doesn't really do anything about it. Is practically never available outside of class, and more often than not does not give resources needed to succeed in his class.

Seems like he doesn't care or want to be there. He mentions a rounding policy but homework assignments never follow it and people have lost points due to his mistakes on the homework. makes constant simple calculation mistakes during class and repeatedly goes over the basics of a concept but the homework goes far more in-depth than explained.

Avoid this Professor at all costs! Homework's take 3+ hours because they are so hard. Tests have a time limit so you have to rush through and one small mistake will make you get the question wrong. Office hours don't help because he expects you to know things that are the things you struggle with. AVOID

Mike Anderson has no regard for his students. He berates those who ask questions and expects every student to be a finance prodigy. His lectures are very rudimentary at best and difficult to apply to the homework. Homework is not extremely difficult just tedious and time consuming.

Homework's are extremely hard, takes 3+ hours to complete. It it is nice you have multiple attempts on homework, but it is just annoying how you have to redo the whole homework each time. Anderson seems to have no care for students and hardly ever answers emails. His lockdown he uses for exams is unreliable. Personally would not recommend.

His notes don't help with the homework at all, and the homework doesn't help with the exams at all. Nothing matches up, he makes the tests impossible due to the time limit, he also doesn't know how to put things in to a perspective where we can understand. His practice exams always have mistakes in the answers as well so it's just a no. simply no.

PART 1: Mike was an awful teacher. I have taken many college courses and never have I been so disappointed in a professor. He rushed through all the material, he gave out 4 tests which is absolutely ridiculous amount. His homework is completely broken. DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS AT ALL COSTS!!! MIKE IS A HORRIBLE PROFESSOR!!!

Easily one of the worst professors I have ever taken. Most of his exams were free response, his homework is in quiz format (if you're not content with your grade, you must restart the whole assignment), his homework assignments are not consistent with the lectures nor are the exams, rarely emails you back, and is very rude. Would not recommend.

He is unwilling to answer students' questions about the course and always refers you to canvas page even if the answer isn't there. He is incredibly difficult to work with and can be straight up rude to his students fairly consistently. Although it is a 2 credit class, it feels like 4 credits between the amount of time homework takes and tests.

He is straight up rude to students when they ask questions. If he hates his job so much then he shouldn't be teaching. I never had such a negative and hateful professor like him..... SO much homework assignments that are alot more complicated than his lectures and take days to finish. Do. Not. Take his class and take any other professor.

HE MADE THIS SEMESTER MISERABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IDK HOW I GOT THROUGH IT

Worst professor I've had so far at the U by a longshot. Lectures don't help with the HW at all and HW takes upwards of 3+ hours to finish, oh and if you want to fix what you missed have fun redoing the entire homework! 4 total exams which is a heavy workload. Classes always felt rushed as the slides that would of helped with the HW we never did.

Mike Anderson is the worst professor at the University. Absolutely could not care less about students and is just there for a paycheck. It seems like Mike intentionally tries to make every student fail. The only reason I did well on the final is because I used another professors review material. Avoid Mike.

Halfway through this class I realized I was getting nothing out of the lectures, so I started just going to tutoring instead. My tutor was amazing and 100x better at teaching the information than the actual professor.

The lectures are useless i stopped going part way through the semester and still got a good grade just doing my own research. Homeworks are really dumb because they are done as a canvas quiz and take a stupid ammount of time to complete. Lots of typos and errors on a lot of the homeworks and exams.

Homework was given in a quiz format and took forever; they were also significantly more difficult than the example problems in class. There were a lot of errors on his slides and exams. Professor didn't care to teach, was just there to get paid. Made my semester miserable. Avoid at all costs.

Horrible professor did not care about his students one bit

You better off talking to a brick wall. A brick wall is not actively dismissive or arrogant. A brick wall won't make you feel bad about yourself. A brick wall won't leave you with a bad impression of the subject matter. At least with a brick wall, you can trust that it is stable and dependable, unlike Mike who seems to be completely out of reach.

Asking for help will get you no where. He will refer you to look at canvas or look at the slides, slides do not match the homework, homework easily will take you 3+ hours. Had to hire a tutor who was even confused with mikes questions and was unable to help. Avoid Mike at all costs. If you want to learn and not rip your hair out take Tim Fullmer

Mike Anderson teaches the material laid out in his course far worse than the other professors teaching this section of the block. He does not teach how to solve using a calculator, (how all the other classes are taught) and has basically no class resources to refer to for help, such as a textbook, examples, etc.

This was by far the worst professor I think I have ever had. He never let anyone ask questions in class because he felt it "slowed" the class down. The homework was given with unlimited attempts but with every attempt the numbers would change. The tests were all short answer meaning you had no chance at even guessing the right answers.

Seriously try to avoid taking this course with Mike, your grade consists of only 3 section exams and one cumulative final exam. Mike reads directly from the inclass powerpoints and offers little to no new insight. There is homework that can be done for practice however, the homework does not give you any explanation on how the problems are done.

AVOID AT ALL COSTS!!! Unless finance is your passion and you already have a perfect knowledge of the course work coming into the class you will hate your life. If you can get ahold of Fullmers study guides that is your only hope for the final. He does have knowledge but does not teach it well and is condescending in every way.

I would definitely not take this professor when professors like Fullmer have a much better more comprehensive course. Mike can be very confusing with how he presents course content, and I personally found it very difficult to learn anything utilizing course material outside of class. Just make sure you know how to use a calculator.

You have to know how to use the calculator because he does not show you how to use it. He will give you all these formulas that take forever to solve when you can use the calculator and it takes two seconds. This is definitely a course where you are going to have to teach yourself.

the worst. he just read from the slides. would not help or answer questions. created his own ciricuilum that was different from the final so we were all screwed. do not take him. Save yourself

Graduating this semester, and this class I took in 2023 was horrible. Probably the worst class and worst professor in the entire university. NOT impressed at all. He doesn't care about his students, and teaches you while not answering questions. Do not take this class if you do not have to.

I actually had him for 5031 but probably one of the worst professors I have had. He is unhelpful and not understanding with legitimate questions and concerns, he offloads work to the TAs and will point you to them for everything, his class policies are unreasonable, and overall just doesn't seem to care about you. He's not on your side.

Take Fullmer instead. Screwed us up on the final. Got sick the week before the final and missed 2 chapters, which was the majority of the content on the final. Asked him if we needed to know WACC for the final, and he said no. The final exam was 75% content about WACC.

Never take Mike, study material is nothing like the actual test, the test is 10x harder than the practices he provides. He is not understanding at all pointing you to "study better" or "review the slides" when you bring questions to him. Take Fullmer 100% if you can.

Thinks he is the wolf of wall street and acts like him. narcissist and will sell you pennystock.

The worst professor I ever had. The most arrogant, hateful and rude to students. He gets annoyed with simple questions and is a condescending prick. Too bad he hates his job/life so much that he has to take it out on students.

TERRIBLE instructor, creepy rude entitled & too prideful to be a professor. Speeds through material, refuses to explain in different ways, and is personally offended when students ask for help. His responses are belittling rather than supportive. Take 3020 with literally any other professor if you want to actually learn, and get your money's worth.

First half of the semester is good if you have some knowledge of finance. After the midterm he goes so so fast and leaves you in the dust for the final. I was genuinely so so shocked at how little he cared that we didn't know anything for the final. Like lmk why the average was a 46% on the final.

He overall doesn't explain things well. Always felt unprepared for exams. He lectures and makes people feel bad when they ask questions. Even though its nice to not have homework, only being graded on exams is horrible. Would not recommend.

mike stands in front of the lecture slides and just talks. the only components of your grade are the three midterms and final exam. homework is worth no points toward your grade. he does nto answer your questions you ask and he expects you to know how to do the questions like it is common sense.

SAVE YOURSELF!!! Worst professor maybe at the entire university. Makes concepts 100x harder than they actually are. It's impossible to recover since exams are so much of your grade and questions make 0 sense compared to other finance professors. Frustrating that even your taking the same class as your peers just taking him will kill your gpa.

Mike Anderson is by the the WORST professor I have ever had. Not only does this guy have an ego but he straight up does not care about his students. On multiple occasions Mike was questioned about why our study guides did not prepare us for his tests and each time his answer basically summed up to “Too bad so sad”. DO NOT TAKE HIM

He said to my class right before working on an example: “If you guys are panicking about all this you might as well walk out now.” This was the class before an exam, and he did not even have time to finish the example. If you want to leave his class feeling like you are not smart, then pick Mike Anderson as your teacher.

Avoid this professor at all costs. He's got an ego and seems to enjoy putting students in their place. He makes you feel stupid for asking questions and spends more time talking about how badly we were going to do on the exam than he did preparing us for it. He goes through concepts way too fast; everything I learned was on my own. Huge curve

This class is only graded based on tests which would be fine except he does not give his students the help that the other professors do. His test review is nothing like the test, and his tests are harder than the other professors. Do not take from him.