Reviews of professor Benjamin Faber

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The class is difficult but Prof Faber tries his best to make the material understandable.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This guy stinks. Not only are his lectures dry, off topic and hard to follow, but he provides little to no resources to prepare for tests and problem sets. This class is a rat race to see who is least confused by his terrible teaching style.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Doesn't provide a comprehensive answer document to a practice final that includes questions that GSIs don't even know how to solve. Boring, dull lectures full of rambling using unnecessary terminology, deviates from the already lackluster slides, has no structure during lecture, writes with small, messy handwriting that nobody can decipher.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Genuinely had to teach myself the whole class. Few support resources available and really dull lectures. Didn't release practice final solutions nor final solutions when it came time for regrade requests. Wouldn't recommend.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This guy is worse than David Beecher, and that is saying something. He comes in completely unprepared for class, and just throws up these nonsensical lecture slides that he has clearly been using since 2014. I don't understand how these half wits keep getting hired at this school. He asks questions that no one answers and it makes class awkward.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
 This prof isn't good. He talks way to fast and it's hard to keep up when there is so many new concepts being thrown at you. Unluckily, my GSI wasn't helpful either, so I ended up having to learn most of the material myself. Also who posts a practice final without a PDF of the answers? Anyway, if necessary, take this class with another prof.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I'm sure he's a nice person and personally helps out people, but his style of teaching is subpar, to say the least. He works totally differently than other professors for course and his teachings are very different from any online material related to econometrics. Too fast, makes mistakes in lectures, and the worst slide maker i've ever seen

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Really enjoyed this class.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This class was very interesting and we do read a lot of papers to understand the different econometric research methods. The exams required us to know the questions, research methods, results, and problems Faber mentions during lectures. I recommended taking an intro econometric class first to do the problem sets. Utilize your GSI for help!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
One of the best decisions I've made is taking 140 early since econometrics has come up in almost all of my other upper div classes. Beware that the class uses R (problem sets, not on exams), and I wish there had been more support in this area speaking as a non-coder. The lectures are interesting for an econometrics class.