Rate My Professors Opt-Out (2026 Guide)

Rate My Professors is a site where students rate professors and colleges. Its site guidelines say the website and app provide user generated feedback on professors' teaching methods and their courses, and that the site is run by Rate My Professors, LLC. Its help center says the site does not add any professor itself: every profile was submitted by its student community, and it says relevant law allows it to host professor profiles without asking permission. Reviews are anonymous, and its guidelines say it can't give a professor any data or personal information about who wrote one.

If you teach, its help center describes no opt-out form. It says Rate My Professors does not remove professors unless they are no longer teaching at the listed university and have been removed from the college's website. While you still teach there, what you can do is flag reviews that break its guidelines and reply to reviews from a professor account.

Checked against Rate My Professors' help center articles "I'm a Professor and I want to remove my profile." (last updated January 10, 2021), "As a Professor, what can I do about negative reviews on my profile?" (August 15, 2024), "How do I report a comment or review that I think should be removed from your site?" (December 31, 2020), "How did my name get on the site without my permission?" (January 10, 2021), "Will Rate My Professors remove a review I flag as false or defamatory?" (December 31, 2020), "How do I make a professor account?" (January 30, 2026), "How do I add a new Professor to the site?" (October 16, 2023), "Can I sue Rate My Professors for a review about me?" (May 5, 2025) and "I'm having a technical issue, can you help?" (December 19, 2020), its Site Guidelines (no date shown), its privacy policy (effective January 1, 2024), Google's help page on refreshing outdated content and California's data broker registry, on October 30, 2026. We read the pages; we did not search for anyone, open any professor's page, sign in or submit anything.

What Rate My Professors will and won't do

It won't remove a profile until you have left. The help center's condition is that you are no longer teaching at the listed university and have been removed from the college's website. It adds that students can add professors at any time and that new profiles are often re-created shortly after one is removed.
It removes reviews that break its guidelines, not negative ones. The help center says only comments that violate its guidelines are removed, and that it does not remove ratings just because someone may disagree with them. Its guidelines say moderators will never edit a rating to make it comply.
It won't decide whether a review is true. Its article on false or defamatory reviews says that when a professor says a review is untrue, it doesn't know who to believe, and that unless it finds some other violation of its policies, it lets users stand by their reviews. Its guidelines say its moderators are not arbiters of facts.
It won't say who wrote a review. The guidelines say it is unable to provide any data or personal information about the person who submitted a review.
It lets you reply. The guidelines say a professor account lets you post replies and get alerted when new ratings are posted on your profile.
It looks at spam and dogpiling. If you believe your profile is being spammed or dogpiled, the guidelines say to email support@ratemyprofessors.com, and that it will review the comments in question.

If you no longer teach at the school

Check the college's website. The help center's removal condition includes being removed from it, as well as no longer teaching at the listed university.
Copy the link to your Rate My Professors profile.
Send the request. The removal article doesn't say where to send it. The address Rate My Professors' guidelines give professors (for a profile being spammed or dogpiled) and its help center gives for technical problems is support@ratemyprofessors.com. The help center also shows a Contact link; we did not open it.
Say that you no longer teach at the school listed on the profile and that the college's website no longer lists you, and ask for the profile to be removed.

A suggested wording:

> My Rate My Professors profile is at [link]. I no longer teach at [school], the school it lists, and [school]'s website no longer lists me. Your help center says you do not remove professors unless both of those are true. They now are, so please remove my profile.

It can come back. The help center says new profiles are often re-created shortly after one is removed. Its article on adding a professor says newly added professors must be verified by moderators before they can be rated.

If you still teach there: flag reviews that break the guidelines

Find the review on your profile.
Select the flag icon at the bottom right corner of the comment. Another help article calls it the "report this rating" link at the bottom of the comment. The guidelines ask you to state the problem.
Name the guideline the review breaks. The guidelines say comments that contain the following will be removed:

profanity, name-calling or vulgarity, and derogatory remarks about religion, ethnicity or race, gender, physical appearance, age, or mental or physical disabilities
identifiable information about a professor that would allow someone to contact them outside of school
references to a professor's family, personal life or sex life
claims that a professor shows bias for or against a student or a group of students
claims about a professor's employment status, including previous employment
claims that a professor engages or has engaged in illegal activities
references to other comments, accusations that the professor is rating themselves or their colleagues, comments not written in English (French is allowed at French-Canadian schools), and links

The guidelines also tell students not to comment on a professor's appearance, dress, age, gender or race, and allow each user one comment for each course a professor teaches.

After you flag a review, the guidelines say moderators decide whether to remove it permanently or restore it. If you can't flag a comment, the help center says it was already flagged, re-reviewed and found not to violate the guidelines. The guidelines ask people not to flag a rating just because they disagree with it.

Reply from a professor account

Open ratemyprofessors.com/signup/professor, the link in the help center's article on professor accounts.
Start typing your name in the Name field and select it from the dropdown menu.
Fill in the remaining required fields, using your school-issued .edu email address.

The help center says creating a user account is not the same as adding a professor profile page, and it has a separate article for professors with a Canadian school email. Replies are held to the same prohibited-content rules as reviews, and the guidelines say replies fueled by anger can be removed for violations such as profanity. They also say it is against the guidelines for a professor to rate themselves.

If something on your profile is wrong

None of the help center articles we read describes a way to correct details on a profile, such as the school or the department. If the profile lists a school you have left, the removal rule above applies. Otherwise, write to support@ratemyprofessors.com with the profile's link and the correction, and keep a copy.

What a removal covers

The profile on Rate My Professors. That is what the help center describes removing.
Not a re-created profile. Students can add professors at any time, and the help center says new profiles are often re-created after one is removed.
Not search results right away. Google's help center has a page for content that was deleted from a site but still comes up in its search results; see the last step below.

How long does it take?

The help center gives no timeframe for removing a profile or for verifying a newly added professor. For a flagged review, it says moderators will review it immediately.

If it doesn't work

Spam or dogpiling. Email support@ratemyprofessors.com, as the guidelines ask, with the profile link and the reviews in question.
A California privacy request. The privacy policy says California residents can ask to have their personal information deleted by emailing CCPA@ratemyprofessors.com or through its request forms, and that it can honor such requests only for California residents whose identities it can verify. The policy adds that this right does not extend to personal information contained or displayed within a Posting on the site, which it calls the protected free speech of the user who made it. Its terms of use count what users submit as Postings, and the help center says students submitted every profile, so don't count on this route for reviews or for the profile itself; the help center's removal rule is the one above. The policy adds that other states, such as Connecticut, Colorado and Virginia, give their residents privacy rights too, but that it is unable to reasonably identify the state its users live in.
Legal action. Rate My Professors says the Communications Decency Act (47 U.S.C. Sec. 230) protects it from liability for reviews its users post, and warns that anyone who sues it over reviews risks court-imposed penalties, which may include paying its attorney's fees. Its guidelines give its address for service of legal process as Rate My Professors, LLC, 50 Broad Street, 20th Floor, New York, NY 10004, and say they are not legal advice. Talk to a lawyer before going this way.
Clear the old search result. Once a profile or review is gone, Google may still show the old version. Google's Refresh outdated content tool is for content that has been removed from a site but still appears in Google Search: click Request refresh, enter the page's address and submit.

Rate My Professors isn't one of the sites in Defynta's free scan, and Defynta doesn't file requests with it: this one is do-it-yourself.

Who runs Rate My Professors. Rate My Professors, LLC, according to its privacy policy and guidelines. The privacy policy says the site is designed and targeted to U.S. audiences. We did not find Rate My Professors on California's data broker registry (searched October 30, 2026), so a registry-based request is not a route here. File directly.

Avvo, a lawyer directory that won't delete profiles but corrects unclaimed ones
GovSalaries, public employee pay records; it redacts only what an agency released by mistake
OpenPayrolls, another public payroll site that doesn't remove records
The Org, public org charts that place you at a company by job title
Where data brokers get your information

Full list: the master opt-out guide.

Frequently asked questions

Can I remove my Rate My Professors profile?

Not while you still teach there. The help center says it does not remove professors unless they are no longer teaching at the listed university and have been removed from the college's website. It also says new profiles are often re-created shortly after one is removed.

Can I get a negative review taken down?

Only if it breaks the site guidelines. The help center says it does not remove ratings just because someone may disagree with them. Flag the review and name the guideline it breaks.

Will it remove a review I say is false?

Not on that basis alone. Its help article says that when a professor says a review is untrue, it doesn't know who to believe, and that unless it finds some other policy violation, it lets users stand by their reviews.

Can Rate My Professors tell me who wrote a review?

No. Its guidelines say the site is anonymous and that it is unable to provide any data or personal information about the person who submitted a review.

Does it cost anything?

None of the pages we read mention a fee for a removal request, a flag or a professor account.

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