George Gao

5 reviews
Average rating: 4.20

This professor has taught: BDBA848A, BMGT343, BMGT347, BMGT446, BUFN742

Grades

During the Spring 2020 and Spring 2021 semesters, students could choose to take some of their courses pass-fail mid-semester which skews grade data aggregated across multiple semesters.

Average GPA of 3.48 between 151 students*

Grade Distribution+-05101520253035404550556065% of studentsABCDFWother
A-: 31.13%
A: 29.14%
A+: 0.66%
B-: 3.31%
B: 10.6%
B+: 21.85%
D: 0.66%
W: 2.65%
* "W"s are considered to be 0.0 quality points. "Other" grades are not factored into GPA calculation. Grade data not guaranteed to be correct.
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George Gao
BMGT343

Expecting an A-
admin
02/06/2026		Very friendly guy. You don't have to go to class he reads right off the slides that are uploaded to Canvas. His exams are very fair and he posts a lot of optional practice. Your class grade is based off of exams so its important to study the material for them. First exam is the most difficult because its on 6 chapters.
George Gao
BMGT347

Expecting an A
admin
12/20/2025		Gao is a nice guy and means well, but is an extremely boring and out of touch professor. Showing up to lectures don't matter, our class of 50 turned into the same 15 every class. Even being there felt like a waste of time, he's hard to understand and doesn't explain really anything, just reads off a slide. The content is actually pretty interesting, but not worth taking as a finance elective.
George Gao
BMGT343

Expecting an A
admin
12/15/2025		Not bad at all. 4 exams and optional homework. No attendence policy
George Gao
BMGT343

Expecting an A-
admin
12/06/2025		This class is literally all just exams. You will take 4 MC exams throughout the semester that are worth 90% of your grade, so you really need to lock in on those and try to learn the material. Besides that tho class is chill and in-person lecture is kinda useless imo. He's pretty chill overall tho and i'd recommend him to anyone wanting to take the course.
George Gao

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/14/2025		You don't have to show up. Review the lecture slides he posts. Review and do the study guides. Problem sets are not graded for accuracy but they do have exam material on them so give them a good try, they aren't hard. As long as you do the study guides, study the material, you'll be totally fine. There are some other minor assignments that he gives out but really easy stuff.