ECON 432
Data Science for Financial Engineering
Grades
3.66
Average grade awarded in ECON 432. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
75%
of the 354 letter grades
D, F or W
0.3%
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: 354 grades over 4 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 4 terms ran 3.33 to 3.85.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 126 · 35.6%
- A 60 · 16.9%
- A- 79 · 22.3%
- B+ 39 · 11.0%
- B 17 · 4.8%
- B- 18 · 5.1%
- C+ 8 · 2.3%
- C 3 · 0.8%
- C- 3 · 0.8%
- F 1 · 0.3%
Percentages are of the 354 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes.
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 | Winter 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LIAO, ZHIPENG reviews ↗ | 3.66 | 3.66 | 354 | 4 | 75% | - | 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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What comes first
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Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
In Winters
Ran in 4 of the last 4 Winters.
From the terms dibs holds, which start in Fall 2021 and exclude summer. A department can run a course in a quarter it never has before.
From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Limited to Master of Quantitative Economics students. Data science provides many useful tools for modeling financial data and testing hypotheses on how markets work, and prices are formed. Study of these important tools. Focus on econometric models and methods to understand financial market dynamics. Topics include returns of financial assets, statistical tests on financial market efficiency, linear time series models, time-varying expected return models, heteroscedastic volatility models, optimal portfolio choice problem, capital asset pricing models, factor models, portfolio allocation, tracking and risk management. Letter grading.
Sections in Winter 2026
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