Reviews of professor Keith Godfrey

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
If you are a Finance major, I'd recommend taking FIN 301 with Godfrey as you will learn a lot w/o access to MS Excel. Midterms are quite difficult but the Final seemed relatively easier. GradeChaser and Textbook questions are the key to success but you'll still be lost on some tested questions. Put in the work and you'll do just fine in the class!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
If he is online again next semester, DO NOT take him. The "light board" he uses to teach his online lectures is atrocious, essentially him scribbling on 1/25th of the screen. All of the calculations he does are impossible to decipher. Not terrible as a professor but instead of using one note or something reasonable he uses a stupid window.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Very sweet man with really good lectures. Be prepared to work hard for this class though. I took it in my first semester at uofa and the difficulty set me back. A hard class to keep up with but the straightforward midterms help. I recommend not skipping his lectures and using his gradechaser website to practice every day.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I cannot emphasize this enough: DO NOT TAKE FIN501 with Professor Godfrey. Take it with Vikas Mehrotra. It will make all the difference. Professor Godfrey tried to cover SO much material, that none of it is covered well, and really should be spread over multiple classes. It is well beyond the foundations and will crush those without prior history.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
If you're somebody who works hard and wants to be tested on whether you actually understand the material, this will be one of the best finance classes you take. If you're somebody who's lazy and who just wants to be tested on whether you can memorize your formulas and lecture slides, this will be one of the worst finance classes you take.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Very knowledgeable professor. He covers a ton of content in each class and uses helpful examples - it is important to go. While this class is not easy, it will truly expand your knowledge. Ask questions if you do not understand - he is very happy to help.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
when 7% of the class gets a midterm question right, he doesn't see that as an issue with his testing strategy. there's your red flag. expect to see extremely in depth questions, with multiple parts meant to trick you, on material he breezed over and did no examples on, with no practice problems even SIMILAR in his homework. smart guy, meh prof

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This course was really difficult but somehow he simplified and condensed a vast amount of concepts into a series of short videos.

Overall, he was a great professor.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I was terrified to take FIN 301, but professor Godfrey made it digestible and I was able to get an A- in this class. The grade chaser questions for homework were amazing for preparing for exams, the textbook helped me to understand concepts like options. Overall a good prof as long as you put in the work to practice!