Reviews of professor Bryan Stuart

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He is a great and organized professor, but his class is complicated. It is all about math. if you have not taken calc don't take his class

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Prof. Stuart is a caring guy. You don't get an answer key to any of the textbook problems and most of what you rely on is based on the problems done in class. The strategy of hard problems in class, then no direction afterwards, is not optimal. You will appreciate what your brain can handle by the end though.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
The comments on here misled me into taking this class. Professor Stuart cares about teaching and is helpful in office hours. The structure of the class (learn everything at home, do hard problems in class) is just not conducive to learning hard material. As a public policy focus I thought I would enjoy the class, but now I just resent the material.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Stuart is a great teacher. Hes young and engaging and the pace of the course is very good. The hw was pretty average - about 2-3 hours of hw per week of reading/studying with regular reading checks and quizzes (which overall I found helpful for the exams). The subject is also interesting and youll feel like youre learning a lot.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
His method of teaching is to learn/read at home and then do practice problems in class, and it's effective. His grading structure is great too. 50% problem portfolio sets (which are mostly done in class); 10% reading checks (true/false questions); 10% small project; 30% final exam. Also, most organized professor you'll ever have, which is great.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Stuart is one of my favorite econ professors at GW. He's an engaging professor who communicates difficult econ intuitions really well. It's a challenging course - if you struggled through intermediate micro or can't do a derivative, expect a tough but fair challenge in his public finance class. Highly recommend for a 3000-level econ credit.