Hardest ECON-E classes at IU

Ranked by average GPA from official grade distributions. Only courses with at least 100 graded students.

1. ECON-E 337: Economic Development Average GPA 2.19, 209 students
2. ECON-E 351: Law and Economics Average GPA 2.45, 262 students
3. ECON-E 364: Envir & Resource Economics Average GPA 2.54, 272 students
4. ECON-E 201: Intro to Microeconomics Average GPA 2.57, 38,103 students
5. ECON-E 202: Intro to Macroeconomics Average GPA 2.57, 20,310 students
6. ECON-E 322: Intermediate Macroecon Theory Average GPA 2.59, 3,875 students
7. ECON-E 251: Fundamentals of Economics I Average GPA 2.64, 6,554 students
8. ECON-E 308: Survey of Public Finance Average GPA 2.67, 353 students
9. ECON-E 221: Methods of Economic Analysis Average GPA 2.67, 135 students
10. ECON-E 321: Intermediate Microecon Theory Average GPA 2.68, 6,488 students
11. ECON-E 252: Fundamentals of Economics Ii Average GPA 2.71, 1,210 students
12. ECON-E 362: Public Finance-taxation Average GPA 2.72, 373 students
13. ECON-E 371: Intro to Applied Econometrics Average GPA 2.74, 2,606 students
14. ECON-E 344: Health Economics Average GPA 2.74, 206 students
15. ECON-E 303: Survey of International Econ Average GPA 2.78, 1,065 students
16. ECON-E 332: Intl Monetary Economics Average GPA 2.79, 102 students
17. ECON-E 361: Public Finance-gov Spending Average GPA 2.82, 276 students
18. ECON-E 211: Appld Microecon: Creative Comm Average GPA 2.92, 612 students
19. ECON-E 305: Money and Banking Average GPA 2.99, 1,599 students
20. ECON-E 203: Intro to Internatnl Economics Average GPA 3.01, 197 students
21. ECON-E 331: International Trade Average GPA 3.02, 2,684 students
22. ECON-E 385: The Economics of Industry Average GPA 3.06, 1,850 students
23. ECON-E 113: Capitalism and Democracy Average GPA 3.08, 262 students
24. ECON-E 309: Topics in Economics Average GPA 3.19, 555 students
25. ECON-E 341: Economics of Labor Markets Average GPA 3.22, 555 students
26. ECON-E 370: Statistical Analys Bus & Econ Average GPA 3.23, 22,498 students
27. ECON-E 327: Game Theory Average GPA 3.25, 3,022 students
28. ECON-E 392: Computationl Methods/econometr Average GPA 3.32, 334 students
29. ECON-E 390: Undergrad Seminar in Economics Average GPA 3.34, 1,140 students
30. ECON-E 520: Optimization Thry Econ Analys Average GPA 3.35, 356 students
31. ECON-E 621: Theory of Prices and Markets 2 Average GPA 3.38, 260 students
32. ECON-E 622: Macroeconomic Theory Ii Average GPA 3.38, 254 students
33. ECON-E 471: Econometric Theory & Pract I Average GPA 3.38, 207 students
34. ECON-E 522: Macroeconomic Theory I Average GPA 3.42, 243 students
35. ECON-E 571: Econometrics I-stat Foundatns Average GPA 3.45, 219 students
36. ECON-E 427: Seminar Experimental Economics Average GPA 3.45, 150 students
37. ECON-E 402: Computational Methods in Macro Average GPA 3.48, 158 students
38. ECON-E 425: Financial Economics Average GPA 3.49, 1,555 students
39. ECON-E 115: Everyday Economics Average GPA 3.53, 1,278 students
40. ECON-E 572: Econom 2-regrs/time Series Average GPA 3.56, 264 students
41. ECON-E 671: Economet 3-nonlnear/simlt Mdls Average GPA 3.61, 202 students
42. ECON-E 627: Experimental Economics Average GPA 3.62, 128 students
43. ECON-E 673: Microeconometrics Average GPA 3.77, 218 students
44. ECON-E 502: Tchng Undergraduate Economics Average GPA 3.79, 177 students
45. ECON-E 521: Theory of Prices and Markets 1 Average GPA 3.80, 279 students
46. ECON-E 685: Adv Industrial Organization Average GPA 3.80, 113 students
47. ECON-E 298: Careers in Economics Average GPA 3.81, 155 students
48. ECON-E 672: Macroeconometrics Average GPA 3.84, 145 students
49. ECON-E 724: Seminar in Economic Theory Average GPA 3.92, 1,312 students
50. ECON-E 626: Game Theory Average GPA 3.92, 207 students
51. ECON-E 530: International Trade Average GPA 3.95, 100 students

See also: Easiest classes, IU course catalog, ECON-E course catalog.