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What’s the average grade in Physics classes?

UT Austin, fall 2023 to summer 2026

Physics classes by average grade

UT average, 3.52Bars start at 2.0

  1. PHY 301 Mechanics432 grades2.95
  2. PHY 315 Wave Motion and Optics492 grades3.10
  3. PHY 316 Electricity and Magnetism367 grades3.21
  4. PHY 336K Classical Dynamics343 grades3.21
  5. PHY 352K Classical Electrodynamics I378 grades3.23
  6. PHY 303L Engineering Physics II1,677 grades3.28
  7. PHY 302K General Physics Technical Course: Mechanics, Heat, and Sound2,670 grades3.31
  8. PHY 115L Laboratory for Physics 315403 grades3.31
  9. PHY 373 Quantum Physics I: Foundations437 grades3.32
  10. PHY 362K Quantum Physics II: Atoms and Molecules263 grades3.33
  11. PHY 303K Engineering Physics I3,235 grades3.37
  12. PHY 369 Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics383 grades3.40
  13. PHY 317K General Physics I2,423 grades3.41
  14. PHY 353L Modern Physics Laboratory290 grades3.48
  15. PHY 355 Modern Physics and Thermodynamics508 grades3.49
  16. PHY 302L General Physics Technical Course: Electricity and Magnetism, Light, Atomic and Nuclear Physics2,218 grades3.53
  17. PHY 317L General Physics II2,246 grades3.56
  18. PHY 321 Modern Physics: Plan II193 grades3.57
  19. PHY 329 Introduction to Computational Physics115 grades3.58
  20. PHY 362L Quantum Physics III: Particles and Nuclei109 grades3.61
  21. PHY 116L Laboratory for Physics 316272 grades3.62
  22. PHY 105M Laboratory For Physics 302K, 303K, and 317K7,443 grades3.67
  23. PHY 105N Laboratory For Physics 302L, 303L, and 317L4,832 grades3.80
  24. PHY 101L Laboratory for Physics 301231 grades3.81
By year2025–26: 3.50
School yearAverage gradeGrades
2023–243.4910,589
2024–253.5611,144
2025–263.5010,821

Across every term since summer 2011, Physics classes average 3.30 on 146,174 grades.

Compare departments35th-lowest of 83

Physics has the 35th-lowest average grade of 83 departments. Here are the ones around it, highest first:

  1. American Studies3.53
  2. Spanish3.52
  3. Physics3.52
  4. Management3.51
  5. Decision Science3.50

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 PHY 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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