Hardest BIOL classes at UNR
Ranked by average GPA from official grade distributions. Only courses with at least 100 graded students.
- BIOL 407: Genomics and Bioinformatics Average GPA 2.45, 139 students
- BIOL 189: Fundamentals of Life Science Average GPA 2.47, 2,944 students
- BIOL 434: Mammalogy Average GPA 2.48, 548 students
- BIOL 330: Plant Biology Average GPA 2.51, 530 students
- BIOL 223: Hum Anat & Phys I Lecture Average GPA 2.55, 10,692 students
- BIOL 190: Intro Cell & Molec Biol Lect Average GPA 2.61, 11,146 students
- BIOL 453: Immunology Average GPA 2.61, 826 students
- BIOL 488: Behavioral Ecology Average GPA 2.61, 123 students
- BIOL 191: Intro Organismal Biol Lect Average GPA 2.62, 8,279 students
- BIOL 100: Principles & Applications Average GPA 2.62, 4,620 students
- BIOL 323: Hum Anat & Phys Pre-pro I Average GPA 2.63, 237 students
- BIOL 316: Compar Animal Phys Average GPA 2.64, 3,258 students
- BIOL 454: Epigenetics & Disease Average GPA 2.64, 485 students
- BIOL 321: Marine Biology Average GPA 2.69, 245 students
- BIOL 481: Prin Animal Behavior Average GPA 2.70, 541 students
- BIOL 410: Plant Physiology Average GPA 2.73, 114 students
- BIOL 251: General Microbiology Average GPA 2.77, 4,555 students
- BIOL 433: Ornithology Average GPA 2.77, 537 students
- BIOL 315: Cell Biology Average GPA 2.79, 4,793 students
- BIOL 300: Principles of Genetics Average GPA 2.81, 6,644 students
- BIOL 368: Parasitology Average GPA 2.81, 1,002 students
- BIOL 405: Molecular Biology Average GPA 2.82, 268 students
- BIOL 314: Ecology & Population Biol Average GPA 2.83, 1,464 students
- BIOL 476: Clocks, Rhythms, & Disease Average GPA 2.86, 257 students
- BIOL 418: Sensory Syst: Ecol, Evol & Div Average GPA 2.87, 268 students
- BIOL 471: Neurobiology of Mental Illness Average GPA 2.87, 173 students
- BIOL 415: Evolution Average GPA 3.01, 3,239 students
- BIOL 431: Ichthyology Average GPA 3.03, 325 students
- BIOL 224: Hum Anat & Phys Ii Average GPA 3.06, 8,710 students
- BIOL 477: Genes, Brain & Behavior Average GPA 3.08, 502 students
- BIOL 429: Biological Diversity Average GPA 3.08, 151 students
- BIOL 432: Herpetology Average GPA 3.10, 224 students
- BIOL 105: Intro to Neuroscience Average GPA 3.12, 2,356 students
- BIOL 466: Developmental Biology Average GPA 3.15, 375 students
- BIOL 475: Neurobiology Average GPA 3.17, 1,579 students
- BIOL 125: How Science Works Average GPA 3.18, 118 students
- BIOL 421: Conservation Biology Average GPA 3.20, 275 students
- BIOL 483: Infection, Immunity and Evol Average GPA 3.27, 307 students
- BIOL 304: Molecular Genetics Average GPA 3.29, 173 students
- BIOL 414: Endocrinology Average GPA 3.33, 241 students
- BIOL 395: Lab Genetic/cell Biol Average GPA 3.35, 2,510 students
- BIOL 450: Special Topics Average GPA 3.35, 742 students
- BIOL 192: Princ of Biol Invest Average GPA 3.40, 5,395 students
- BIOL 394: Lab in Ecol & Populat Bio Average GPA 3.44, 622 students
- BIOL 479: Neuroscience Lab Average GPA 3.47, 303 students
- BIOL 472: Limnology Average GPA 3.47, 113 students
- BIOL 482: Cell Biology of Disease Average GPA 3.66, 249 students
- BIOL 446: Desrt & Montane Ecosystem Average GPA 3.67, 116 students
- BIOL 792: Special Problems Average GPA 3.93, 202 students
- BIOL 495: Peer Leadership in Biol Average GPA 3.97, 353 students
- BIOL 491: Independent Study Average GPA 3.99, 630 students
- BIOL 423: Advan Human Dissect I Average GPA 3.99, 378 students
- BIOL 424: Advan Human Dissect Ii Average GPA 4.00, 321 students
- BIOL 601: Biol Journal Seminar Average GPA 4.00, 296 students
See also: Easiest classes, UNR course catalog, BIOL course catalog.