Hardest ECON classes at UCSD

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

  1. ECON 147: Economics of Education Average GPA 2.66, 402 students
  2. ECON 136: Human Resources Average GPA 2.73, 394 students
  3. ECON 100A: Microeconomics A Average GPA 2.74, 9,971 students
  4. ECON 125: Demographic Analys&forecasting Average GPA 2.79, 432 students
  5. ECON 172A: Operations Research A Average GPA 2.86, 1,075 students
  6. ECON 176: Marketing Average GPA 2.87, 299 students
  7. ECON 120A: Econometrics A Average GPA 2.88, 9,094 students
  8. ECON 103: International Monetary Relatns Average GPA 2.88, 429 students
  9. ECON 120B: Econometrics B Average GPA 2.89, 8,015 students
  10. ECON 171: Decisions Under Uncertainty Average GPA 2.89, 2,433 students
  11. ECON 165: Middle East Economics Average GPA 2.89, 656 students
  12. ECON 100C: Microeconomics C Average GPA 2.90, 4,652 students
  13. ECON 110B: Short Run Macroeconomics Average GPA 2.91, 6,803 students
  14. ECON 4: Financial Accounting Average GPA 2.91, 4,715 students
  15. ECON 102: Globalization Average GPA 2.91, 640 students
  16. ECON 111: Monetary Economics Average GPA 2.93, 494 students
  17. ECON 167: Economics of China Average GPA 2.93, 164 students
  18. ECON 100B: Microeconomics B Average GPA 2.94, 8,104 students
  19. ECON 110A: Long Run Macroeconomics Average GPA 2.94, 5,286 students
  20. ECON 120C: Econometrics C Average GPA 2.94, 4,895 students
  21. ECON 173A: Financial Markets Average GPA 2.94, 1,245 students
  22. ECON 146: Economic Stabilization Average GPA 2.94, 645 students
  23. ECON 172B: Operations Research B Average GPA 2.95, 1,023 students
  24. ECON 140: Economics of Health Producers Average GPA 2.95, 381 students
  25. ECON 1: Principles of Microeconomics Average GPA 2.97, 13,924 students
  26. ECON 164: The Indian Economy Average GPA 2.97, 642 students
  27. ECON 138: Economics of Discrimination Average GPA 2.98, 2,276 students
  28. ECON 109: Game Theory Average GPA 2.98, 1,831 students
  29. ECON 130: Public Policy Average GPA 2.98, 826 students
  30. ECON 101: International Trade Average GPA 2.98, 676 students
  31. ECON 174: Financial Risk Management Average GPA 2.98, 294 students
  32. ECON 3: Principles of Macroeconomics Average GPA 2.99, 7,267 students
  33. ECON 2: Market Imperfections & Policy Average GPA 3.01, 3,022 students
  34. ECON 105: Industrl Orgniztn&firm Stratgy Average GPA 3.01, 237 students
  35. ECON 178: Economic&business Forecasting Average GPA 3.03, 979 students
  36. ECON 131: Economics of the Environment Average GPA 3.04, 2,587 students
  37. ECON 116: Economic Development Average GPA 3.04, 591 students
  38. ECON 145: Economics of Ocean Resources Average GPA 3.05, 1,689 students
  39. ECON 142: Behavioral Economics Average GPA 3.06, 389 students
  40. ECON 139: Labor Economics Average GPA 3.06, 252 students
  41. ECON 173B: Corporate Finance Average GPA 3.11, 1,049 students
  42. ECON 132: Energy Economics Average GPA 3.13, 820 students
  43. ECON 151: Public Economics:expenditure I Average GPA 3.14, 624 students
  44. ECON 5: Data Analytics/Social Sciences Average GPA 3.15, 4,649 students
  45. ECON 129: Cities, Inequality, Innovation Average GPA 3.15, 419 students
  46. ECON 159: Economic Hist/united States Ii Average GPA 3.16, 165 students
  47. ECON 117: Economic Growth Average GPA 3.17, 119 students
  48. ECON 168: Economics of Modern Israel Average GPA 3.20, 403 students
  49. ECON 121: Applied Econometrics & Data Average GPA 3.21, 409 students
  50. ECON 134: The U.s. Social Safety Net Average GPA 3.27, 316 students
  51. ECON 181: Topics in Economics Average GPA 3.27, 170 students
  52. ECON 152: Public Economics:expenditureii Average GPA 3.33, 589 students
  53. ECON 175: InternationalFinancialMarkets Average GPA 3.36, 226 students
  54. ECON 149: Introduction/economic Design Average GPA 3.36, 208 students
  55. ECON 112: Macroeconomic Data Analysis Average GPA 3.41, 240 students
  56. ECON 183: Topics in Macroeconomics Average GPA 3.51, 179 students
  57. ECON 143: Experimental Economics Average GPA 3.53, 204 students
  58. ECON 190: Intro to Research in Economics Average GPA 3.56, 116 students

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