Prisca Castanyer is an Economics professor at Northeastern University rated 2.9/5 by 11 students, with 2.6/5 difficulty and 67.0% who would take them again (TRACE + RateMyProfessors + Reddit, updated July 2026).
Prisca Castanyer professor reviews and ratings: 2.9/5 from 11 student reviews at Northeastern (67.0% would take again). TRACE + RateMyProfessor + Reddit.
very caring and empathetic, lots of writingPSCI1030 2022-09-09 16:33:04 +0000 UTC
She is a great professor your experience will depend on if your personality link with hers or not.ECON3420 2017-02-22 14:30:20 +0000 UTC
Overall she's a great professor. great personality but not quite professional. Her tests are tough because its all abt memorizing her ppt materials. U need to participate and she will love you forever. Make sure she remembers your nasme!ECON3404 2016-04-29 15:08:09 +0000 UTC
An unreasonable Professor; you have to memorize everything she says, even though she says to not study through memorization. She moves too fast through her slides and doesn't separate fact from her own opinion. She treats college students like 3rd graders, ie. can't sit in the same spot twice and you can't wear hats in class. NOT RECOMMENDED3404INT 2015-11-02 17:10:37 +0000 UTC
Prisca's classes are unique in that they take an interdisciplinary approach to economics, weaving in history, policy analysis, and current events into the lectures, which I liked and enjoy. Students are encouraged to participate and share their own opinions on the matter as well. The class is lecture-based and reading based, I would recommend her.ECON1291 2015-10-28 20:58:03 +0000 UTC
Soooooo much work in this course. Multiple writing assignments a week and each requires a lot of time and reading to complete. Tough grader even though the assignments are technically supposed to be up for personal interpretation. I would not take this class or professor again.PSCI1030 2020-12-17 22:01:59 +0000 UTC
She's terrible. Didnt cover all the material on the syllabus, spent most of the time talking about her own research. Didnt learn anything in this class.ECON3420 2015-12-08 21:21:32 +0000 UTC
I would not recommend taking a class with Prisca. She treats students like middle schoolers, (ex. you can't leave to go to the bathroom unless its an emergency and yes she will interrupt class to ask you that), flies through the slides so fast and doesn't put them online yet expects you to know things word for word from the slides, very biased.ECON3404 2015-12-08 19:38:56 +0000 UTC
- Good person and lecturer - Recommend going to her office hours for help or more information on topics - Really wants students to succeed and helps as much as possible! - Tests are relatively easy if you go to all classes, because powerpoints (PPs) are not posted to blackboard and all tests information are from PPsECON3420 2015-07-02 03:22:10 +0000 UTC
Easy grader, but can be quite an eccentric character when teaching. She seems to get things confused easily, and adds a lot of her own opinions. You wont learn much economics in this class, but rather a jigsaw of sociological and historical theories on societal development. You will be bored in this class if you are a person really into economics.ECON3420 2015-03-30 01:49:00 +0000 UTC
The class is easy. The only thing is that you don't learn much Urban Economics. She will start off with and Urban Economic idea and goes off on a tangent about general information where you get bored and don't feel to get a full effect of Urban Economics. She is a good person, as a professor she could get better overtime. Take it and find out.ECON3420 2015-02-03 14:31:22 +0000 UTC
Prisca Castanyer has an average rating of 2.9/5 from 11 student reviews. 67.0% of students said they would take them again.
Prisca Castanyer's classes have a difficulty rating of 2.6/5 based on student reviews.
Prisca Castanyer has taught ECON1291, ECON1915, ECON3404, ECON3420 at Northeastern.
Data updated July 2026.