UiUC vs UW-Madison for Business major

rainyswish
Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:39:13 +0000

Not only freshman year. There are 300 people lectures for some Junior classes as well :/. Most large classes are the courses that you are required to take for your major.
I.e. if you are a Business major you have to take BADM 310 as Business core for Junior Year (this class offers about 600+ seats).
GPA is pretty much inflated across all departments at UIUC. I’m not too sure about Engineering because it seems like a lot of the tougher classes are the ones that does not curve.
Some classes barely curve because if one person gets 100% on a test then that means there won’t be any curves. If you compare UIUC to other colleges, obtaining a high GPA is a lot easier. The average GPA at UIUC is 3.14 I think…but that’s because there are a lot of slackers haha. Most departments’ dean’s list is around 3.65 (top 20%) which means over 6000 students have 3.65 or above <—(that IMO is A LOT of students and 3.65 is extremely high for college GPA)