Reviews of professor Rathin Sarathy

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This is a difficult class. The course is in early development (first couple of semesters and sections) and could use some refinement, but the intent is good. Would like to see the course grading less heavy with exams and have the grading more reflective of the homework/projects/labs since the differentiator is the hands-on approach.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
There's homework every week, and it's tough, but it only accounts for about 20% of the grade. The rest of the grade is based on two exams, and the exams are hard. The class avg on both exams was between 55-60. Unfairly in my opinion,he weights online student exams with on campus students exams. Ex credit was given to make up for poor midterm scores

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Terrible, boring lectures with many errors

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Sarathy definitely puts less weight on tests/exams now compared to past reviews. MSIS-5503 in Fall 2022, tests =35% of the grade while the rest was based on homeworks. Gives pretty good (but long) lectures, learned a lot. Can use R on homework; but on the exams you have to do everything with pencil/calculator which is why people do poorly on them.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
avoid this professor at all cost.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Sarathy states in the first video lecture that he doesn't know Python but final project had to be done almost completely using Python. Learn Python before this course. Half of the course covered basic SQL. Other half covered warehousing, etc. Lecture videos were him reading his PPT slides. Only one exam. Rude when I asked for help on a weekend.