So what is the average Engineer GPA anyways?

DunninLA
Thu, 26 May 2011 14:54:01 +0000

Well, here are nationwide statistics that reveal the general differences between GPAs of graduating Liberal Arts, STEM, and Social Science students.

Here is Ave GPA over time at Public vs. Private: [recenttrendsindschools2.gif (image)](recenttrendsindschools2.gif (image))

Here is Ave GPA per area of study: Figure 3, page 4 http://www.gradeinflation.com/tcr2010grading.pdf This chart indicates that a 3.0 student in Engineering would, on average, be a:


3.15 in Natural Sciences
3.2 in Social Sciences
3.3 in Liberal Arts


As I mentioned above, I don’t know if these data account for the presence of “weed-out” classes in both Natural Sciences and Engineering, as opposed to the lack thereof in Social Sciences and Liberal Arts, which would widen the deltas.