Hardest COGS classes at UCSD

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

  1. COGS 152: Cognitive Foundations of Math Average GPA 2.53, 215 students
  2. COGS 174: Drugs: Brain, Mind and Culture Average GPA 2.84, 178 students
  3. COGS 179: Electrophysiology of Cognition Average GPA 2.97, 254 students
  4. COGS 184: Modeling/evolution of Cognitn Average GPA 3.01, 332 students
  5. COGS 110: The Developing Mind Average GPA 3.03, 484 students
  6. COGS 156: Language Development Average GPA 3.09, 442 students
  7. COGS 155: Gesture and Cognition Average GPA 3.10, 339 students
  8. COGS 151: Analogy and Conceptual Systems Average GPA 3.12, 207 students
  9. COGS 143: Animal Cognition Average GPA 3.16, 312 students
  10. COGS 107A: Neuroanatomy and Physiology Average GPA 3.19, 6,444 students
  11. COGS 14A: Intro. to Research Methods Average GPA 3.22, 7,063 students
  12. COGS 115: Neurologcl Devlp & Cogntv Chng Average GPA 3.22, 533 students
  13. COGS 107B: Systems Neuroscience Average GPA 3.24, 4,512 students
  14. COGS 169: Genetic Information/behavior Average GPA 3.29, 212 students
  15. COGS 172: Brain Disorders and Cognition Average GPA 3.31, 1,191 students
  16. COGS 177: Space and Time in the Brain Average GPA 3.32, 488 students
  17. COGS 14B: Intro. to Statistical Analysis Average GPA 3.34, 4,616 students
  18. COGS 17: Neurobiology of Cognition Average GPA 3.37, 9,952 students
  19. COGS 126: Human-computer Interaction Average GPA 3.37, 190 students
  20. COGS 101C: Language Average GPA 3.38, 2,293 students
  21. COGS 153: Language Comprehension Average GPA 3.38, 645 students
  22. COGS 101A: Sensation and Perception Average GPA 3.40, 6,109 students
  23. COGS 144: Social Cognition Average GPA 3.43, 317 students
  24. COGS 15: Uncensored Intro. to Language Average GPA 3.44, 866 students
  25. COGS 116: Developmental Cog Neuroscience Average GPA 3.45, 366 students
  26. COGS 102A: Cognitive Perspectives Average GPA 3.46, 952 students
  27. COGS 1: Introduction to Cognitive Sci Average GPA 3.47, 11,628 students
  28. COGS 18: Introduction to Python Average GPA 3.47, 9,159 students
  29. COGS 180: Decision Making in the Brain Average GPA 3.47, 257 students
  30. COGS 13: Fld Methods: Cognition in Wild Average GPA 3.48, 5,735 students
  31. COGS 157: Music and the Mind Average GPA 3.48, 375 students
  32. COGS 109: Modeling & Data Analysis Average GPA 3.49, 1,143 students
  33. COGS 11: Minds & Brains Average GPA 3.50, 3,266 students
  34. COGS 8: Hands-on Computing Average GPA 3.50, 285 students
  35. COGS 142: Animal Communication Average GPA 3.50, 220 students
  36. COGS 125: Advanced Interaction Design Average GPA 3.51, 177 students
  37. COGS 118A: Intro to Machine Learning I Average GPA 3.52, 2,091 students
  38. COGS 101B: Learning, Memory and Attention Average GPA 3.53, 4,990 students
  39. COGS 176: From Sleep to Attention Average GPA 3.54, 128 students
  40. COGS 118B: Intro to Machine Learning Average GPA 3.55, 1,397 students
  41. COGS 118C: Neural Signal Processing Average GPA 3.55, 562 students
  42. COGS 120: Interaction Design Average GPA 3.58, 1,575 students
  43. COGS 12: Language, Culture & Cognition Average GPA 3.59, 403 students
  44. COGS 160: Seminar on Special Topics Average GPA 3.62, 681 students
  45. COGS 111: Beauty and the Brain Average GPA 3.63, 1,478 students
  46. COGS 3: Introduction to Computing Average GPA 3.64, 1,979 students
  47. COGS 187B: Practicum in Pro Web Design Average GPA 3.64, 778 students
  48. COGS 122: Startup Studio Average GPA 3.64, 360 students
  49. COGS 10: Cognitv Consequence/Technology Average GPA 3.65, 5,020 students
  50. COGS 123: Social Computing Average GPA 3.65, 974 students
  51. COGS 102B: Cognitive Ethnography Average GPA 3.65, 811 students
  52. COGS 100: Cyborgs Now and in the Future Average GPA 3.66, 5,653 students
  53. COGS 128: Information Visualization Average GPA 3.66, 259 students
  54. COGS 119: Programming/experimental Res. Average GPA 3.66, 173 students
  55. COGS 112: Humor Average GPA 3.67, 1,120 students
  56. COGS 188: Ai Algorithms Average GPA 3.68, 297 students
  57. COGS 9: Introduction to Data Science Average GPA 3.69, 5,680 students
  58. COGS 2: Cognitive NeuroEconomics Average GPA 3.69, 1,635 students
  59. COGS 181: Neural Networks/deep Learning Average GPA 3.69, 756 students
  60. COGS 138: Neural Data Science Average GPA 3.70, 233 students
  61. COGS 158: Bilingual Minds and Brains Average GPA 3.72, 139 students
  62. COGS 163: Metabolic Disorders/brain Average GPA 3.73, 604 students
  63. COGS 154: Comm Disorders/Children&Adults Average GPA 3.74, 346 students
  64. COGS 150: Large Language Models/CogSci Average GPA 3.74, 334 students
  65. COGS 185: Adv. Machine Learning Methods Average GPA 3.75, 425 students
  66. COGS 187A: Usability & Info. Architecture Average GPA 3.76, 1,353 students
  67. COGS 108: Data Science in Practice Average GPA 3.77, 13,367 students
  68. COGS 170: Brain Waves Across Scales Average GPA 3.77, 374 students
  69. COGS 107C: Cognitive Neuroscience Average GPA 3.78, 1,710 students
  70. COGS 137: Practical Data Science in R Average GPA 3.78, 290 students
  71. COGS 189: Brain Computer Interfaces Average GPA 3.79, 1,221 students
  72. COGS 102C: Cognitive Design Studio Average GPA 3.82, 639 students
  73. COGS 165: Neuroimaging of Cognition Average GPA 3.82, 308 students
  74. COGS 127: Design Human-data Interactions Average GPA 3.84, 954 students
  75. COGS 121: Human Comptr Interac Prog Stud Average GPA 3.84, 795 students
  76. COGS 178: Genes, Brains & Behavior Average GPA 3.85, 355 students
  77. COGS 124: Hci Technical Systems Research Average GPA 3.89, 129 students
  78. COGS 164: Neurobiology of Motivation Average GPA 3.90, 849 students
  79. COGS 178R: Genes, Brains, and Behavior Average GPA 3.92, 163 students

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