Reviews of professor Michael Gibbs

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Not as hard as everyone below makes it out to be. If you like finance Professor Gibbs is the man. I have literally never seen another teacher spend as much time in his office hours helping students, with every question, as he did. The guys knows his stuff and I would so much rather learn from someone like that then be spoon fed textbook material.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He lacks a structure for his teachings. So unorganized. He is smart and knows his stuff but unless you ask him, he won't share his knowledge. Easy grade, but if you're serious about learning finance, I suggest looking for another person. At least I learned why stairs in Europe go up counterclockwise. A question in exam, smh

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Prof. Gibbs is funny, caring and very knowledgable about finance. Easy class, easy exams and make sure you do the Bloomberg Market Concepts (BMC) early during the semester at the COB Lab. lectures are long but they are very interesting. Very unorganized but he is open to any questions at the end of class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
If you don't have a passion for Finance, you will find this class very boring. Talks during the whole class time with no supplemental material like a slideshow. Sometimes he'll use Excel. Tells you that you will get exams back one day and then decides that class will be online last minute. Very disorganized. He is an easy grader, though.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
worst finance professor ever in the history of CSULB

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
A lot of real life experience and job opportunities when you take this class. Dr. Gibbs has been working in finance industry for a long time and he knows some high demand jobs that only insiders know. He is a master at Excel, so if you want to learn a lot more about Excel, take his class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Very easy class, you can tell he's from the south from his accent and right wing leaning rants. Talks about self sufficiency but he's 100% a state employee. Gives everyone a good grade because he does not want to lose easy job where he rants about what ever pet topic he's stuck on. Definitely weirded me out.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
I already took Gibbs for FIN 350. Thought he would take 450 more seriously but this has been the most unstructured class I have ever taken. No Syllabus assigned, no assignments, no tests or projects, and I'm already halfway through the semester. Gibbs is the worse Finance teacher at Cal State Long Beach I have not learned a thing. Don't take him!