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What’s the average grade in Music classes?

UT Austin, fall 2023 to summer 2026

Music classes by average grade

UT average, 3.52Bars start at 2.0

  1. MUS 612A Structure of Tonal Music269 grades3.11
  2. MUS 612B Structure of Tonal Music247 grades3.15
  3. MUS 411A Ear Training and Sight-singing251 grades3.19
  4. MUS 411B Ear Training and Sight-singing225 grades3.22
  5. MUS 213N History of Music II140 grades3.24
  6. MUS 213M History of Music I140 grades3.43
  7. MUS 201M Beginning Music Performance: Class Piano219 grades3.47
  8. MUS 605A Musicianship198 grades3.49
  9. MUS 605B Musicianship180 grades3.53
  10. MUS 312C Music and Culture349 grades3.56
  11. MUS 303M Introduction to Music in World Cultures352 grades3.59
  12. MUS 176M The Healthy Musician167 grades3.62
  13. MUS 230L History of Music III179 grades3.64
  14. MUS 303E Fundamentals of Music: Piano208 grades3.70
  15. MUS 303C Fundamentals of Music: Classroom Instruments140 grades3.78
  16. MUS 306M Elements of Music339 grades3.79
  17. MUS 307 Topics in Popular Music5,411 grades3.86
  18. MUS 302L An Introduction to Western Music1,257 grades3.90
By year2025–26: 3.71
School yearAverage gradeGrades
2023–243.643,521
2024–253.743,988
2025–263.714,650

Across every term since summer 2011, Music classes average 3.61 on 54,995 grades.

Compare departments23rd-highest of 83

Music has the 23rd-highest average grade of 83 departments. Here are the ones around it, highest first:

  1. Social Work3.71
  2. Advertising3.71
  3. Music3.70
  4. Undergraduate Studies3.70
  5. Radio-Television-Film3.68

Every department

Professor evaluationsUT’s public results

UT posts its course evaluation results as one public list per term. Look up a class or professor for its syllabi and UT’s results.

SourcesUT grade reports

We averaged every A to F grade UT reported in MUS classes from fall 2023 to summer 2026, using UT’s grade points (A is 4.0, A- is 3.67). This is a course-grade average. A class is listed once it gave 100 grades across at least two terms.

Average grade in every departmentHardest classes at UTUT Austin, ranked