Hardest CS classes at UCR

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

CS 111: DISCRETE STRUCTURES Average GPA 2.40, 5,037 students
CS 181: Princpls: Programmng Languages Average GPA 2.72, 162 students
CS 010B: INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER SCIENCE FOR SCIENCE, MATHEMATICS, AND ENGINEERING 2 Average GPA 2.73, 4,549 students
CS 012: Intro: Cs for Sci,math&engr Ii Average GPA 2.75, 1,581 students
CS 061: MACHINE ORGANIZATION AND ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE PROGRAMMING Average GPA 2.79, 4,994 students
CS 141: INTERMEDIATE DATA STRUCTURES AND ALGORITHMS Average GPA 2.81, 4,233 students
CS 010A: INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER SCIENCE FOR SCIENCE, MATHEMATICS, AND ENGINEERING I Average GPA 2.84, 5,686 students
CS 013: Intro Comptr Sci for Engr Majs Average GPA 2.85, 141 students
CS 010C: INTRODUCTION TO DATA STRUCTURES AND ALGORITHMS Average GPA 2.93, 3,706 students
CS 120B: INTRODUCTION TO EMBEDDED SYSTEMS Average GPA 2.95, 2,432 students
CS 105: DATA ANALYSIS METHODS Average GPA 2.96, 1,708 students
CS 165: COMPUTER SECURITY Average GPA 2.96, 950 students
CS 130: COMPUTER GRAPHICS Average GPA 3.00, 1,170 students
CS 014: Intro-data Structrs&algorithms Average GPA 3.01, 1,193 students
CS 122A: Int Embedded&real-time Systems Average GPA 3.02, 548 students
CS 010: Intro: Cs for Sci,math&engr I Average GPA 3.03, 3,654 students
CS 009A: DATA ORIENTED INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTING I Average GPA 3.04, 2,386 students
CS 171: INTRODUCTION TO MACHINE LEARNING AND DATA MINING Average GPA 3.07, 1,503 students
CS 168: INTRODUCTION TO VERY LARGE SCALE INTEGRATION DESIGN Average GPA 3.09, 512 students
CS 006: EFFECTIVE USE OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB Average GPA 3.12, 7,491 students
CS 166: DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS Average GPA 3.14, 2,435 students
CS 153: DESIGN OF OPERATING SYSTEMS Average GPA 3.15, 3,405 students
CS 182: SOFTWARE TESTING AND VERIFICATION Average GPA 3.16, 349 students
CS 161: DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE OF COMPUTER SYSTEMS Average GPA 3.17, 3,368 students
CS 179F: Project in Computer Science Average GPA 3.25, 469 students
CS 008: INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTING Average GPA 3.26, 24,335 students
CS 206: Adv Software Testing&analysis Average GPA 3.26, 244 students
CS 204: Advanced Computer Networks Average GPA 3.26, 213 students
CS 011: INTRODUCTION TO DISCRETE STRUCTURES Average GPA 3.28, 3,849 students
CS 218: DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHMS Average GPA 3.28, 758 students
CS 169: Mobile Wireless Networks Average GPA 3.28, 246 students
CS 135: Virtual Reality Average GPA 3.30, 556 students
CS 164: COMPUTER NETWORKS Average GPA 3.31, 558 students
CS 009P: Introduction to Programming Average GPA 3.31, 331 students
CS 145: Combinatrial Optmztn Algorithm Average GPA 3.31, 239 students
CS 215: THEORY OF COMPUTATION Average GPA 3.31, 129 students
CS 180: INTRODUCTION TO SOFTWARE ENGINEERING Average GPA 3.32, 1,708 students
CS 009B: DATA ORIENTED INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTING II Average GPA 3.32, 615 students
CS 234: Comp Methds for Biomoleculr Da Average GPA 3.32, 103 students
CS 147: Gpu Computing & Programming Average GPA 3.33, 282 students
CS 005: INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER PROGRAMMING Average GPA 3.34, 8,103 students
CS 161L: Lab-desgn & Archtctr Comp Sys Average GPA 3.34, 542 students
CS 150: AUTOMATA AND FORMAL LANGUAGES Average GPA 3.35, 2,997 students
CS 175: ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN COMPUTING Average GPA 3.35, 477 students
CS 167: Intro to Big-data Management Average GPA 3.37, 758 students
CS 120A: LOGIC DESIGN Average GPA 3.39, 3,327 students
CS 236: DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS Average GPA 3.40, 554 students
CS 170: INTRODUCTION TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Average GPA 3.41, 2,987 students
CS 100: SOFTWARE CONSTRUCTION Average GPA 3.43, 4,586 students
CS 160: CONCURRENT PROGRAMMING AND PARALLEL SYSTEMS Average GPA 3.44, 775 students
CS 009C: C++ FOR PROGRAMMERS Average GPA 3.45, 393 students
CS 210: SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING Average GPA 3.45, 291 students
CS 152: COMPILER DESIGN Average GPA 3.46, 2,471 students
CS 224: FOUNDATIONS OF MACHINE LEARNING Average GPA 3.47, 324 students
CS 240: Network Routing Average GPA 3.47, 166 students
CS 172: Intro to Information Retrieval Average GPA 3.48, 1,230 students
CS 201: COMPILER CONSTRUCTION Average GPA 3.51, 523 students
CS 247: Principles of Distributed Comp Average GPA 3.51, 235 students
CS 208: Cloud Computng&cloud Netwrking Average GPA 3.52, 130 students
CS 183: Unix System Administration Average GPA 3.53, 538 students
CS 228: Introduction to Deep Learning Average GPA 3.54, 208 students
CS 253: Distributed Systems Average GPA 3.55, 148 students
CS 179J: Comp Architctr&embedded Systms Average GPA 3.56, 408 students
CS 202: ADVANCED OPERATING SYSTEMS Average GPA 3.57, 862 students
CS 203: ADVANCED COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE Average GPA 3.60, 622 students
CS 142: Algorithm Engineering Average GPA 3.61, 372 students
CS 110: PRINCIPLES OF WEB DEVELOPMENT Average GPA 3.62, 718 students
CS 211: High Performance Computing Average GPA 3.63, 370 students
CS 235: DATA MINING TECHNIQUES Average GPA 3.65, 1,020 students
CS 173: Natural Language Processing Average GPA 3.66, 590 students
CS 144: ALGORITHMS FOR BIOINFORMATICS Average GPA 3.66, 210 students
CS 214: PARALLEL ALGORITHMS Average GPA 3.66, 115 students
CS 255: COMPUTER SECURITY Average GPA 3.67, 368 students
CS 179K: PROJECT IN COMPUTER SCIENCE: SOFTWARE ENGINEERING Average GPA 3.67, 116 students
CS 252A: DATA ANALYTICS AND EXPLORATION Average GPA 3.67, 104 students
CS 217: GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT ARCHITECTURE AND PARALLEL PROGRAMMING Average GPA 3.71, 502 students
CS 229: Machine Learning Average GPA 3.71, 298 students
CS 178B: Project Sequence in Cse Average GPA 3.72, 318 students
CS 242: Info Retrieval & Web Srch Average GPA 3.73, 557 students
CS 108: DATA SCIENCE ETHICS Average GPA 3.73, 439 students
CS 178A: PROJECT SEQUENCE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING Average GPA 3.73, 224 students
CS 190: SPECIAL STUDIES Average GPA 3.74, 164 students
CS 238: Algorithmc Techs-comptanl Bio Average GPA 3.75, 184 students
CS 225: Spatial Computing Average GPA 3.78, 364 students
CS 131: Edge Computing Average GPA 3.81, 466 students
CS 260: SEMINAR IN COMPUTER SCIENCE Average GPA 3.84, 318 students
CS 179G: PROJECT IN COMPUTER SCIENCE: DATABASE SYSTEMS Average GPA 3.85, 539 students
CS 226: Big-data Management Average GPA 3.87, 566 students
CS 205: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Average GPA 3.90, 843 students
CS 179N: Project in Computer Science Average GPA 3.90, 554 students
CS 179M: PROJECT IN COMPUTER SCIENCE: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Average GPA 3.90, 420 students