Reviews of professor Paul Murray

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Capstone is difficult regardless but Prof Murray made it work for us all. Don't miss lectures he cover important information that is critical for the game. Prepare for the panel thoroughly, don't leave it until the last minute. Good Luck!

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Hybrid class & lecture heavy. Posted two hour long lectures when we werent in class. Had three homework assignments & every two weeks met up for lecture and quiz (6 quizzes total, were mc w/ one programming Q). Open book/open note. No extra credit given. Hard to get a 92 to exempt the final. Bought the online textbook off vitalsource for $55.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Study for your quizzes !  Hes very lecture based even if youre in hybrid course . Very tentative on letting his students know where they are and any updates on the class . Knowing how to code will be an easy A if you dont work with him and hell help

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
If you want to have an A, I highly recommend him for any of the management classes or capstones (especially BUS 4970). Attendance is mandatory because it is part of student's participation grade. Overall, he is an easy-going professor. Not a hard grader at all.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Insane and unreasonable. Seems to take his class too seriously. As other said, its best to avoid his draconian grading. Very very arbitrary in grading criteria, extremely random and ridiculously difficult for the sake of being difficult. Power tripping professor at his finest.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Took him for the capstone, and I believe he's an easy grader when it comes to the reports and midterm/presentation . So i would recommend him 100% if you are trying to get him for the capstone.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Mr. Murray does not teach. At all. Every project, I had to learn via Google. Granted, I feel that I am a stronger coder because of it, but it is not an excuse. Mr. Murray is paid to teach us, and we are paying the school a large sum of money to be taught. Mr. Murray outright fails as a teacher.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Horrible, horrid professor. Shouldn't even be teaching considering the guy doesn't have a PhD and doesn't realize that students learn from work experience, not by listening to his monotonous voice from a horribly-written book. He is a disgrace to the institution and its faculty. Do not take him, and cry otherwise.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This class is heavy on group projects. He is new to teaching the class and his grading is a little random. Nice guy but beware having a bad team drags down your grade considerably. He takes attendance and gives participation points which count a lot. The best students turned his assignments in early, did a lot of prep work and practiced.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
This guy thinks he can post hour and a half lectures reading off of a paper and talking about the most random things you can think of during most of it, absolutely no study options outside of his little handout. Do not take this class online.