<p>nahmytbf: Well, grade inflation has been discussed innumerable times, here on CC especially. While all universities have seen grade inflation over the decades, public universities have typically suffered less from that than most privates (especially Ivy’s). I think that the sciences at UNC have also typically not seen much grade inflation, and possibly grade deflation, over the years, from what I’ve read. I’ve seen some reports that in 2001 (I believe), UNC carried out a study on grade inflation and how to stop it, in the non-sciences especially. Since then, I gather there’s been a real effort in that direction, which has caused (I suspect) some overall grade deflation in all depts.</p>