FINANCE 340 teaches analysis of fixed income and bond markets, including bond pricing, trading strategies, and risk management for government and corporate securities.
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.46 GPA, 64.0% A/AB (n=25 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.69 GPA, 84.6% A/AB (n=26 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.36 GPA, 57.5% A/AB (n=40 letter grades).
FINANCE/ECON 300, (MATH 213, 222, or 276) and (GEN BUS 307, 656,ACT SCI 654, 655,ECON 400, 410,STAT/MATH 310,STAT 312, or333 or concurrent enrollment); or declared in undergraduate Business Exchange program
declared in undergraduate Business Exchange program
Raw average: 4.82/5 from 11 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.
RMP profile ↗ · All captured review dates; profile matched by name.
Raw average: 4.33/5 from 9 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.
RMP profile ↗ · All captured review dates; profile matched by name.
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2025: 3.69 GPA, 84.6% A/AB (n=26 letter grades).
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.46 GPA, 64.0% A/AB (n=25 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.69 GPA, 84.6% A/AB (n=26 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.36 GPA, 57.5% A/AB (n=40 letter grades).
difficulty & workload
No workload feedback recorded.
Topics
Government bonds and derivative securities
Repo financing, mortgage markets, and corporate bond default risk
Skills
Bond evaluation and portfolio trading/hedging
Bond pricing techniques
Trading strategies for mis-priced securities
Risk measurement and minimization
Grades
Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Fall 2026.
average GPA
A / AB grades
letter grades
Instructor
Grade distribution · % of letter grades
A17.5%17.5%
AB40.0%40.0%
B40.0%40.0%
BC2.5%2.5%
C0.0%0.0%
D0.0%0.0%
F0.0%0.0%
Grades over time
Through Spring 2026
More grade details Grade mix, volume & source data
Where this course fits relative to
Latest available grades · Spring 2026 · all course levels
3.363.36GPA
Higher than 2020% of other courses
in this group.
Course GPAs · red marks this course’s range
4040letter grades
More recorded grades than 2121% of other courses in this group.
Typical course in this group: 66.066.0 letter grades.
About this comparison
1283 courses over the same term, each with at least 30
recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure
of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded
grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.
Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.
Sources & history
UW–Madison
Catalog & offerings
Descriptions, prerequisites, and recorded course offerings.
Catalog observation history
Observations at scan time; dates do not imply when a catalog change took effect.