A recent Kaplan Test Prep survey showed that almost half of college students use Web sites like RateMyProfessors.com to select classes that are rated as easy, which may be a factor in grade inflation ...

There are professors who find student comments on their end-of-semester evaluations so upsetting that they cry after reading them. If my course evaluations have tended to be pretty good, I can still ...

Instructors have little to lose by responding to student criticism on RateMyProfessors.com, a new study suggests, and what they say could actually end up having a positive impact on student ...

Georgetown was recognized Monday as the 13th highest-rated university in the nation by Ratemyprofessors.com for 2011. Many faculty and students received the news with the same cloud of suspicion that ...

Ujjwala Lahoti has a routine when deciding what classes to take. The UB senior accounting major goes online, looks up the course she is considering and notes the name of the professor teaching a class ...

Politicians aren't the only ones who have to worry about getting caught with their foot in their mouth and having it posted on the Web. Students are now being encouraged to photograph their professors ...

A website that allows students to review their college professors has dropped a long-standing "chili-pepper" rating from its site after facing criticism on social media that the rating was used to ...

Your professor holds forth in class, lecturing, orating, gesturing, bantering — equal parts pedagogue and performer. But never mind his or her grasp of subject or teaching style. Is your professor hot ...

This is one of the reasons "RateMyProfessors.com" is not a useful resource, the metrics are stupid. You also end up with rankings mostly based on how easy a course is rather than anything else because ...

The website RateMyProfessors.com killed the "chili pepper" rating that allowed students to rate a professor's "hotness." The website removed the rating that has been a mainstay for years after a ...

Opinion: RateMyProfessors.com is not a reliable enough source for dictating your class schedule and should be used with caution, if utilized at all RateMyProfessors.com is a website, unaffiliated with ...