Fatema Nafa is an Electrical Engineering professor at Northeastern University rated 3.3/5 by 268 students, with 2.9/5 difficulty and 50.0% who would take them again (TRACE + RateMyProfessors + Reddit, updated July 2026).
Fatema Nafa professor reviews and ratings: 3.3/5 from 268 student reviews at Northeastern (50.0% would take again). TRACE + RateMyProfessor + Reddit.
easy to score A+DS5110 2026-01-16 21:45:57 +0000 UTC
She is a good professor who made me love programming. Her teaching style is modern, and her exams, quizzes, and assignments are clear. Attendance matters in her class, and she is always on time and respectful to students. She motivates her students, and I would definitely recommend her sections.EECE2140 2025-12-11 21:48:53 +0000 UTC
EECE 2140 (ignore title). Nice lady, bad teacher. Extremely disorganized in every aspect (on every test, at least 1 question was formatted wrong to the point it wasn't answerable), but asks for very specific submission organization or you WILL be docked major points. Springs random, heavy coding assignments on you. Just take the other professor.DS5110 2025-12-08 20:37:22 +0000 UTC
She is so bad with responding to emails and the quality of her instructions/exams aren't very good and her lectures were mid. She's a nice professor though if you need to talk to her talk to her in personEECE2140 2025-12-10 21:29:07 +0000 UTC
Prof. Nafa is an excellent professor who is highly Focused to delivering engaging and well-structured lectures. Her focus on ensuring students learn and understand the material in class. Her lectures are always well-organized and prepared. She is also very approachable and always available to help just don't hesitate to ask!DS5110 2024-12-18 19:52:33 +0000 UTC
Professor Nafa is amazing with a highly interactive teaching style. Her classes combine two hours of engaging lectures with one hour dedicated to solving real-world problems, providing a perfect balance of theory and practice. She is approachable, supportive, and genuinely invested in her students' success, She is always willing to help.DS5110 2024-12-16 19:13:47 +0000 UTC
Professor Nafa is a knowledgeable and passionate educator who creates an engaging, dynamic learning environment. Her interactive classes emphasize hands-on, real-world applications, making complex topics accessible. Her dedication to student success and clear explanations have significantly enhanced my learning experience.DS5110 2024-12-16 19:01:45 +0000 UTC
Learned practically nothing in this class. She was rarely prepared for lectures and spent most of the time debugging code off-screen. Homeworks often made little sense and were filled with logical errors. Completely unresponsive outside of class. By far the least organized and carelessly put together course I've ever taken.DS5110 2024-12-13 18:25:03 +0000 UTC
I think this is a new professor. Very boring 3 hour lecture with exercises at the end. Does live coding in jupyter-notebook and then has to sit and debug for 5-10 min, repeat for 1.5 hour. Rarely responsive outside of class. Simple assignments graded 4-6 weeks late. Easy class, but you will learn little from the professorDS5110 2024-11-11 21:06:24 +0000 UTC
She is not punctual at all. Just keeps on giving assignments and projects which are not even graded. She isn't reliable for any sort of knowledge you want. Students usually sit idle for 2 hr 45 min. in her 3 hr lecture. Taking a lecture under her feels like total waste of time.DS5110 2024-11-08 18:57:42 +0000 UTC
Fatema Nafa has an average rating of 3.3/5 from 268 student reviews. 50.0% of students said they would take them again.
Fatema Nafa's classes have a difficulty rating of 2.9/5 based on student reviews.
Fatema Nafa has taught DS5500, DS5110, EECE2140, EECE2560, DS5220, DS5020 at Northeastern.
Data updated July 2026.