RateMyProfessors.com Ranks the Top 25 Professors in the Country

All around the country while professors are grading their students, their students are grading their professors. A site called RateMyProfessors.com lets students anonymously gauge the performance of their teachers and no critique or area of criticism is off-limits. You could call one of your professors an evil warlock if you wanted to–but you shouldn’t because they prefer to be called “wizards.” This week, RateMyProfessors.com ranked the 25 highest rated professors in the country and gave them the honor they so richly deserve in a special list.
Indian River State College’s Pat Fitzsimmons of the mathematics department earned the top spot on the list. Students described her as someone who is “always clear” with her instructions who also “went above and beyond” to help keep her classes on task and aware of upcoming dates. That’s pretty good for a professor who teaches math, a subject that can reduce even slightly dumb students to quivering bowls of useless jelly.
Some of our other favorites who made the list include College of Charleston Spanish professor Devon Hanahan who once had a whole class over at her house to help them study for an exam and even cooked them dinner while they studied. Communication professor John Ryan of San Francisco State University also made the list thanks to one student who actually wrote “I actually enjoyed showing up for a three hour night class.”
English professor Rawlslyn Francis of Florida State College at Jacksonville also made the list–and she’s also kind of hot. Sorry, Professor James Stroud of Ball State University, work on your skin foundation and you might have a chance next year.
We’ve compiled the full list of 25 professor below in a special gallery. Congratulations to all of this year’s big winners. We wish that we’d won enough to have them as our professors…

1. Pat Fitzsimmons
   MATHEMATICS, INDIAN RIVER STATE COLLEGE
2. Chad J Kuyper
   SPEECH, FLORIDA STATE COLLEGE AT JACKSONVILLE
3. Monessa Cummins
   CLASSICS, GRINNELL COLLEGE
4. David Cook
   ART, GEORGIA GWINNETT COLLEGE
5. Kenneth Anderson
   MUSIC, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO
6. Devon Hanahan
   SPANISH, COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON
7. Judson Everitt
   SOCIOLOGY, LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO
8. Douglas Klutz
   CRIMINAL JUSTICE, UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA
9. Christopher Atwater
   MANAGEMENT, GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY
10. Jerry West
    MATHEMATICS, UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FORT SMITH
11. Karen Dodson
    ENGLISH, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH GEORGIA – GAINESVILLE
12. Rosalind Hall
    MUSIC, BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY
13. James Brenner
    HEALTH SCIENCE, WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
14. John Ryan
    COMMUNICATION, SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY
15. Barb Childers
    EDUCATION, BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY
16. George Jucha
    COMPUTER SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
17. Eric Schuchardt
    POLITICAL SCIENCE, SOUTHEAST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY
18. Fran Iacobellis
    NURSING, LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY
19. Scooter Pegram
    LANGUAGES, INDIANA UNIVERSITY NORTHWEST
20. Laura Pence
    CHEMISTRY, UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD
21. Brian Redondo
    PSYCHOLOGY, ROWAN UNIVERSITY
22. James Stroud
    EDUCATION, BALL STATE UNIVERSITY
23. Kelly Champagne
    MATHEMATICS, NICHOLLS STATE UNIVERSITY
24. Rawlslyn Francis
    ENGLISH, FLORIDA STATE COLLEGE AT JACKSONVILLE
25. Bonnie MacKey
    EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON : CLEAR LAKE