A professor can make or break a class and, in the scramble to find the right course, students are always looking for advice about which professors to take — and which to avoid.
MyEdu.com, a Texas-based website, goes further than just rating professors. It provides a number of tools to help students succeed in school.
“At MyEdu, you have a full picture of everything that is going on whenever you are thinking about a course or planning what courses to take,” co-founder Chris Chilek said. “Everything is in one place.”
MyEdu works closely with over 2,000 universities to provide professors’ grade histories and distributions for students to see the number of A’s, B’s, C’s, D’s and F’s that a particular professor has given out. The schedule planner tool helps students plan what courses to take by finding what professors are teaching a particular class, what times they are teaching, their grade distribution for that class and student reviews for that professor. For those who enjoy taking classes with friends, this tool is hooked up to Facebook, allowing students to see what classes their friends are taking.
In addition, MyEdu provides degree planning tools to help students graduate in an efficient manner.
“There is a lot more depth of information at MyEdu other than a hotness rating and a few questions that students have answered about them,” Chilek said.
There is a degree timeline that allows students to layout which courses they are enrolled in for each semester to help balance course workloads and prevent a buildup of hard courses during their senior year. According to Chilek, this helps raise a student’s GPA and increases the odds that a student won’t drop any classes.
MyEdu was created after Chilek joined with co-founders John Cunningham and Michael Crosno to fix the state of the university. “We learned a lot of really interesting things about the state of college and the way that it is right now,” Chilek said. “It is taking students longer and longer to graduate and it is costing them a lot of money to do that. So we found that if we could create efficiency in how they take their courses and move to completing their degree, we could save them tens of thousands of dollars — if not more.”
Many students on campus thought that the website would be a useful tool and a good alternative to sites like RateMyProfessor.com.
“It sounds really interesting,” senior film major Miyu Oba said. “I don’t want to take boring classes or a class that would be too hard.”
Students can access most of the tools offered by MyEdu for free by “liking” them on Facebook. Students can also gain access to the full website for a 30-day trial.
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