So what is the average Engineer GPA anyways?

DunninLA
Wed, 25 May 2011 15:37:29 +0000

There are nuances to that question specific to majors where a significant percentage of students do not make it through the weed-out courses. Majors that come to mind are Engineering, Chemistry, Biology.

It may look something like this:

1) Students taking Introductory Engineering and Math classes: 2.5 (this includes the 25% who get D or F)
2) Students who survived the weed-out and continue in the Major: 2.9
3) 2nd Semester Seniors who received mostly B or A grades in upper division classes: 3.2

So the question must specify the specific time the measure is taken, as well as the cohort. Ave GPA of Sophomore Engineeers will be lower than Junior Engineers, which will be lower than Sr. Year Engineers.

Now that I’m thinking about it, it makes a lot of sense to take all the weed-out courses in JC and then transfer into a UC.