Easiest MSE classes at UIUC
Ranked by average GPA from official grade distributions. Only courses with at least 100 graded students.
- MSE 183: Introductory Matse Laboratory Average GPA 3.94, 445 students
- MSE 396: Introduction to Research Average GPA 3.88, 318 students
- MSE 498: Modern Methods in Mat'ls Chara Average GPA 3.86, 143 students
- MSE 598: Machine Learning for Matse Average GPA 3.84, 141 students
- MSE 494: Materials Design Thinking Average GPA 3.80, 184 students
- MSE 395: Materials Design Average GPA 3.79, 1,010 students
- MSE 489: Matl Select for Sustainability Average GPA 3.71, 426 students
- MSE 474: Biomaterials and Nanomedicine Average GPA 3.66, 406 students
- MSE 461: Electronic Materials II Average GPA 3.65, 269 students
- MSE 485: Atomic Scale Simulations Average GPA 3.63, 296 students
- MSE 495: Materials Design Average GPA 3.63, 121 students
- MSE 470: Design and Use of Biomaterials Average GPA 3.62, 906 students
- MSE 452: Polymer Laboratory Average GPA 3.62, 165 students
- MSE 500: Statistical Thermodyn of Matls Average GPA 3.56, 750 students
- MSE 308: Materials Laboratory II Average GPA 3.54, 1,240 students
- MSE 487: Materials for Nanotechnology Average GPA 3.54, 289 students
- MSE 481: Electron Microscopy Average GPA 3.53, 317 students
- MSE 480: Surfaces and Colloids Average GPA 3.52, 727 students
- MSE 462: Electronic Materials Lab Average GPA 3.51, 114 students
- MSE 307: Materials Laboratory I Average GPA 3.45, 1,198 students
- MSE 101: Materials in Today's World Average GPA 3.43, 618 students
- MSE 443: Design of Engineering Alloys Average GPA 3.43, 368 students
- MSE 182: Introduction to Matse Average GPA 3.42, 1,373 students
- MSE 488: Optical Materials Average GPA 3.37, 147 students
- MSE 473: Biomolecular Materials Science Average GPA 3.36, 259 students
- MSE 458: Polymer Physics Average GPA 3.35, 310 students
- MSE 457: Polymer Chemistry Average GPA 3.34, 830 students
- MSE 201: Phases and Phase Relations Average GPA 3.29, 1,481 students
- MSE 455: Macromolecular Solids Average GPA 3.28, 106 students
- MSE 450: Polymer Science & Engineering Average GPA 3.25, 883 students
- MSE 280: Engineering Materials Average GPA 3.18, 3,339 students
- MSE 405: Microstructure Determination Average GPA 3.18, 1,093 students
- MSE 403: Synthesis of Materials Average GPA 3.17, 521 students
- MSE 441: Metals Processing Average GPA 3.17, 361 students
- MSE 453: Plastics Engineering Average GPA 3.17, 321 students
- MSE 440: Mechanical Behavior of Metals Average GPA 3.17, 298 students
- MSE 406: Thermal-mech Behavior of Matls Average GPA 3.16, 1,445 students
- MSE 460: Electronic Materials I Average GPA 3.14, 346 students
- MSE 402: Kinetic Processes in Materials Average GPA 3.13, 1,327 students
- MSE 456: Mechanics of Composites Average GPA 3.09, 410 students
- MSE 420: Ceramic Materials & Properties Average GPA 3.07, 185 students
- MSE 206: Mechanics for Matse Average GPA 3.05, 1,287 students
- MSE 401: Thermodynamics of Materials Average GPA 3.00, 1,645 students
- MSE 304: Electronic Properties of Matls Average GPA 2.96, 1,124 students
See also: Hardest classes, UIUC course catalog, MSE course catalog.