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What’s the average grade in Philosophy classes?

UT Austin, fall 2023 to summer 2026

Philosophy classes by average grade

UT average, 3.52Bars start at 2.0

  1. PHL 321K Theory of Knowledge102 grades3.04
  2. PHL 310 Knowledge and Reality112 grades3.10
  3. PHL 323K Metaphysics115 grades3.12
  4. PHL 301K Ancient Philosophy110 grades3.14
  5. PHL 313 Introductory Symbolic Logic393 grades3.14
  6. PHL 303M Mind and Body327 grades3.29
  7. PHL 301L Early Modern Philosophy139 grades3.35
  8. PHL 347 Philosophy of Law594 grades3.35
  9. PHL 313Q Logic and Scientific Reasoning148 grades3.39
  10. PHL 329K History of Ancient Philosophy136 grades3.40
  11. PHL 365 Topics in Selected Problems in Philosophy121 grades3.41
  12. PHL 301 Introduction to Philosophy669 grades3.42
  13. PHL 315F Philosophy and Film202 grades3.44
  14. PHL 325M Medicine, Ethics, and Society108 grades3.46
  15. PHL 304T Introduction to Technology Ethics108 grades3.48
  16. PHL 325E Biomedical Ethics165 grades3.52
  17. PHL 318K Introduction to Political Philosophy260 grades3.54
  18. PHL 317K Introduction to the Philosophy of the Arts785 grades3.54
  19. PHL 318 Introduction to Ethics257 grades3.60
  20. PHL 325K Ethical Theories140 grades3.60
  21. PHL 342R Philosophy of Race and Gender143 grades3.61
  22. PHL 304 Contemporary Moral Problems952 grades3.61
  23. PHL 366K Existentialism146 grades3.62
  24. PHL 323M Philosophy of Mind153 grades3.64
  25. PHL 329L Early Modern Philosophy: Descartes to Kant127 grades3.71
  26. PHL 325J Health and Justice123 grades3.75
  27. PHL 610QB Probs of Knowledge & Valuation247 grades3.79
  28. PHL 610QA Probs of Knowledge & Valuation403 grades3.80
By year2025–26: 3.52
School yearAverage gradeGrades
2023–243.443,126
2024–253.492,724
2025–263.522,746

Across every term since summer 2011, Philosophy classes average 3.37 on 49,581 grades.

Compare departments29th-lowest of 83

Philosophy has the 29th-lowest average grade of 83 departments. Here are the ones around it, highest first:

  1. Geological Sciences3.49
  2. Computational Engineering3.49
  3. Philosophy3.48
  4. Government3.48
  5. African and African Diaspora Studies3.48

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 PHL 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.

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