So what is the average Engineer GPA anyways?

grapesoda
Mon, 23 May 2011 03:51:44 +0000

Looks like the average for graduating engineering students is around 3.1-3.2 for most engineering majors. For reference, English is in the mid-3.3s.

Source: [UCLA Office of Analysis and Information Management | AIM](http://www.aim.ucla.edu/aprs/apbaprs.asp)

Comparing average GPAs by major doesn’t give the full picture, however. Engineering is generally more competitive to get into, and thus may have students who performed better in high school. If high school performance correlates with college performance (I won’t argue whether it does or doesn’t), then the fact that engineering has stronger performers, but still a lower average GPA would suggest that engineering is harder than what the gap shows.

Also, upper division courses give more A’s. So the graduating GPAs of students doesn’t take into account people who did poorly in lower division courses, then switched into other majors.