Students Rate Professors

RateMyProfessors.com that is the Internet's largest listing of collegiate professor ratings comprises with more than 6.8 million student-generated ratings of over 1 million professors. The main criteria student rates professors are helpfulness and clarity. The web site exists since 1999.
The RateMyProfessors.com provides ratings on college and university professors from over 6,000 schools across the United States, Canada, England, Scotland and Wales. But there is no limit and every day the list might enlarge.

In the history if its existence RateMyProfessor was viewed and highlighted differently.

According to the official site RateMyProfessor was reported by the following sources:
Web site lets students tell about teachers
Inside Higher Ed [ Could RateMyProfessors.com Be Right? ]
MTV Networks' mtvU Agrees to Acquire RateMyProfessors.com
Boston Herald
SFSU Express
Boston University [Prof. rating website adds photo feature]
Boston University [EDITORIAL: RateMyPrivacy.com]
Inside Higher Education
The Hoya
Fox News
ABC 6 News
Boston Globe
Progressive U
Baltimore Business Journal
CNN Money
TMCnet
Toledo Blade
Oregon Daily
SMU Daily
Philly Blurbs
Detroit Free Press
Calvin College
Lehigh University
Education Guardian (UK)
East Tennessee State
The Village Voice
Ohio State Lantern
Wired News
University of Georgia
Lawrence Journal
Slate
Central Flordia
The Gainseville Sun
Arizona State
Rutgers
The Augusta Chronicle
Albion
Northern Iowan

Despite all these likes and dislikes of students the ratings do not give us objective, fair and impartial information. Because we, human beings, are subjective by nature and the evaluations that are provided by the students might be reliable but...

As we have already mentioned in this post the site includes information provided by 6.8 million students. There might be 6.8 million opinions about one and the same professor. The majority of the same opinions solve the problem and determine who is who. But reasons to rate professors negatively are possible for the reasons the professor is not faulty in. So we come up to the point that ratings might not be taken into consideration as the ratings showing 100% guaranteed statistics. For the maximum results not only professors ratings should be analyzed but also the ratings of students to come to the conclusion what is the reason to evaluate the professors positively or negatively. Though the idea of 67.8 million students does matter.