CSE

College of Engineering · Michigan State University
128,200 grades76 courses179 professors44 terms

Department and course prefixes as Michigan State University lists them in its own catalog.

2.90
average GPA across 128,200 grades
−12% vs. Michigan State University overall (3.30)
70%
A or B
of 128,200 grades
14.9%
D, F or withdrew
of 128,301 enrolled
A43.7%
B26.6%
C14.9%
Every term against the 2.90 department average 44 terms
Fall 2011Spring 2026
Most taken
Courses with a grade record · 76
CourseDistributionGPAvs. deptGrades
100 level4 courses
CSE 100 · Computer Science Profession
3.53 +22% vs. dept 2,031
CSE 101 · Computng Concepts/Competencies
2.45 −16% vs. dept 21,738
CSE 102 · Algorithmic Thinking/Progrming
2.59 −11% vs. dept 13,892
200 level7 courses
CSE 220 · Programming in C
2.95 +2% vs. dept 1,700
CSE 231 · Introduction to Programming I
2.54 −13% vs. dept 15,490
CSE 232 · Introduction to Programming II
2.57 −11% vs. dept 8,880
CSE 251 · Programming in C
3.35 +16% vs. dept 238
CSE 260 · Discrete Structures Comp Sci
2.96 +2% vs. dept 7,154
300 level6 courses
CSE 300 · Ethics and Prof Issues in CS
3.67 +27% vs. dept 2,287
CSE 320 · Comp Organization and Arch
2.82 −3% vs. dept 4,529
CSE 325 · Computer Systems
3.00 +3% vs. dept 2,867
CSE 335 · Software Design
3.17 +9% vs. dept 4,876
CSE 380 · Info Management and the Cloud
2.55 −12% vs. dept 643
400 level24 courses
CSE 404 · Intro to Machine Learning
3.43 +18% vs. dept 681
CSE 410 · Operating Systems
2.91 +1% vs. dept 2,269
CSE 415 · Intro to Parallel Computing
2.87 −1% vs. dept 298
CSE 420 · Computer Architecture
2.85 −2% vs. dept 484
CSE 422 · Computer Networks
3.19 +10% vs. dept 2,050
CSE 425 · Intro to Computer Security
3.46 +19% vs. dept 953
CSE 429 · Topics in CyberSecurity
3.21 +11% vs. dept 232
CSE 431 · Algorithm Engineering
3.23 +11% vs. dept 1,489
CSE 434 · Autonomous Vehicles
3.63 +25% vs. dept 104
CSE 435 · Software Engineering
3.47 +20% vs. dept 1,004
CSE 440 · Intro to AI
3.13 +8% vs. dept 1,581
CSE 460 · Computability and Languages
2.78 −4% vs. dept 371
CSE 472 · Computer Graphics
3.62 +25% vs. dept 946
CSE 476 · Mobile App Development
3.55 +22% vs. dept 1,626
CSE 480 · Database Systems
3.15 +9% vs. dept 2,775
CSE 482 · Big Data Analysis
3.57 +23% vs. dept 1,391
CSE 484 · Information Retrieval
2.92 +1% vs. dept 44
CSE 498 · Collaborative Design (W)
3.52 +21% vs. dept 3,368
800 level32 courses
CSE 803 · Computer Vision
3.78 +30% vs. dept 383
CSE 812 · Advanced Operating Systems
3.70 +28% vs. dept 261
CSE 822 · Parallel Computing
3.83 +32% vs. dept 45
CSE 835 · Algorithmic Graph Theory
3.43 +18% vs. dept 182
CSE 840 · Comp Foundations in AI
3.52 +21% vs. dept 399
CSE 841 · Artificial Intelligence
3.78 +30% vs. dept 282
CSE 843 · Language and Interaction
3.88 +34% vs. dept 26
CSE 847 · Machine Learning
3.70 +28% vs. dept 405
CSE 848 · Evolutionary Computation
3.74 +29% vs. dept 220
CSE 849 · Deep Learning
3.68 +27% vs. dept 80
CSE 851 · Genetic Programming
3.88 +34% vs. dept 12
CSE 860 · Foundations of Computing
3.66 +26% vs. dept 90
CSE 881 · Data Mining
3.77 +30% vs. dept 722
CSE 891 · Selected Topics
3.69 +27% vs. dept 865
900 level3 courses
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