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College of Biological Sciences

University of California-Davis · Davis, CA
12 departments516 courses listed

Which departments belong to College of Biological Sciences comes from University of California-Davis's own course catalog. No program list for this college has reached The Flunk, so no majors are shown.

2.83
average GPA across 636,729 grades in the 351 courses this college teaches that we hold grades for i
−8% vs. University of California-Davis overall (3.08)
67%
A or B
of 636,729 grades
14.3%
D, F or withdrew
of 678,243 enrolled
A29.1%
B37.4%
C24.7%
D 6.3%F 2.4%
165 further courses are listed in these requirements with no grade record yet, and are not in the figures above.
the courses this college teaches
29.1%
A
185,588
37.4%
B
238,345
24.7%
C
157,463
6.3%
D
40,105
2.4%
F
15,228
6.1%
W
41,514
A–F are shares of 636,729 letter grades · W is a share of all 678,243 enrolled
Departments · 12 subjects University of California-Davis files under this college whole-department record i
SubjectDistributionGPAvs. schoolGrades
NPB
2.93 −5% vs. school 106,331
MCB
2.93 −5% vs. school 56,855
EVE
3.00 −2% vs. school 33,110
PLB
3.04 −1% vs. school 15,743
BIS
2.69 −13% vs. school 328,515
MIC
3.05 −1% vs. school 56,420
EXB
3.00 −2% vs. school 36,898
GGG
3.79 +23% vs. school 2,557
ANB
3.95 +28% vs. school 265
FSE
4.00 +30% vs. school 35
No grade record yet · 2 subjects
MMG · 28 coursesBIO · 6 courses
These subjects appear in these degrees' requirements and University of California-Davis has published no grades for their courses yet. They are listed rather than dropped, so the count above is the whole set.
Gateways · the courses these degrees run through first ordered by how many later courses each one opens, weighted by how often students do not pass it
CourseDistributionGPAvs. listedGrades
BIS 002A · Introduction to Biology: Essentials of Life on Earth · opens 615 later courses
2.69 −5% vs. listed 49,262
BIS 002B · Introduction to Biology: Principles of Ecology & Evolution · opens 601 later courses
2.66 −6% vs. listed 45,337
BIS 002C · Introduction to Biology: Biodiversity & the Tree of Life · opens 263 later courses
2.85 +1% vs. listed 34,027
BIS 102 · Structure & Function of Biomolecules · opens 172 later courses
2.64 −7% vs. listed 34,377
BIS 101 · Genes & Gene Expression · opens 149 later courses
2.69 −5% vs. listed 49,699
"vs. listed" measures each course against the 2.83 average across every course this college teaches, the figure at the top of this page. The bar is the share of letter grades. Withdrawals sit on a different denominator — everyone who enrolled — and are on each course's own page.
Flagged as gateways, no grade record · 3
BIS 027A · Linear Algebra with Applications to Biology · opens 493 later coursesBIO 001 · Introductory Biology: Ecology & Evolution · opens 458 later coursesBIO 002 · Introductory Biology: Molecules to Cells · opens 434 later courses
These courses sit in front of a lot of later coursework and University of California-Davis has published no grades for them. The reach is real; there is no curve to show beside it, so they are kept out of the ranked list above.
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