MGMTMFE 431
Special Topics in Financial Engineering
Grades
3.65
Average grade awarded in MGMTMFE 431. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
64%
of the 1,442 letter grades
D, F or W
0.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
0%
nobody in the record took it pass/no pass
The registrar's own records: 1,442 grades over 10 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
No summer session is in that record.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 10 terms ran 3.55 to 3.76.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 182 · 12.6%
- A 425 · 29.5%
- A- 312 · 21.6%
- B+ 404 · 28.0%
- B 93 · 6.4%
- B- 20 · 1.4%
- C+ 6 · 0.4%
- S 237 of 1,685
- I 6 of 1,685
Percentages are of the 1,442 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: satisfactory (S) and incompletes (I).
How the non-letter outcomes are counted
They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Summer Session C 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HERSKOVIC, BERNARD reviews ↗ | 3.62 | 3.62 | 327 | 4 | 57% | - | not teaching it |
| LOCHSTOER, LARS A reviews ↗ | 3.68 | 3.68 | 282 | 4 | 65% | - | not teaching it |
| SUBRAHMANYAM, AVANIDHAR reviews ↗ | 3.76 | 3.77 | 208 | 4 | 83% | - | not teaching it |
| CHERNOV, MIKHAIL reviews ↗ | 3.90 | 3.93 | 142 | 5 | 98% | - | not teaching it |
| TSAI, BENJAMIN S reviews ↗ | 3.41 | 3.38 | 132 | 3 | 44% | - | not teaching it |
| AUGUSTIN, PATRICK CONSTANT reviews ↗ | 3.48 | 3.46 | 119 | 2 | 34% | - | not teaching it |
| ZHANG, JINYUAN reviews ↗ | 3.56 | 3.55 | 79 | 1 | 46% | - | not teaching it |
| HADDAD, VALENTIN P reviews ↗ | 3.61 | 3.60 | 79 | 2 | 51% | - | not teaching it |
| HSU, JASON C reviews ↗ | 3.74 | 3.76 | 74 | 1 | 85% | - | not teaching it |
Why Predicted is not the Raw average
“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department, so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.
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Workload and assignments
Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.
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From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, three hours. Limited to Master of Financial Engineering program students. In-depth examination of problems or issues in one area of current concern in financial engineering. May be repeated for credit. S/U or letter grading.
Sections in Summer Session C 2026
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