Psychology classes by average grade Hardest first Easiest first Biggest first
Bars start at 2.0
PSY 353K Psychopharmacology 259 grades 2.67 PSY 305 Introduction to Cognitive Psychology 375 grades 3.24 PSY 319K Social Psychology 514 grades 3.38 PSY 301 Introduction to Psychology 7,148 grades 3.38 PSY 337P Language Processing 136 grades 3.39 PSY 332U Diversity in Cognitive Aging 258 grades 3.44 PSY 317L Introduction to Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences 2,744 grades 3.45 PSY 355 Cognition 185 grades 3.47 PSY 120R R Programming for Behavioral Sciences 107 grades 3.47 PSY 308 Biopsychology 448 grades 3.50 PSY 365L Advanced Social Psychology 100 grades 3.53 PSY 306 Introduction to Human Sexuality 2,362 grades 3.53 PSY 355Q Cognitive Science of Religion 109 grades 3.60 PSY 355M The Cognitive Psychology of Music 129 grades 3.62 PSY 345 Individual Differences 175 grades 3.65 PSY 365E Emotion 193 grades 3.67 PSY 365D Behavioral Science, Equity, and Inclusion 676 grades 3.69 PSY 333D Introduction to Developmental Psychology 1,625 grades 3.69 PSY 339 Behavior Problems of Children 1,593 grades 3.70 PSY 420M Psychological Methods and Statistics 2,088 grades 3.72 PSY 332 Behavioral Neuroscience 314 grades 3.77 PSY 341K Selected Topics in Psychology 545 grades 3.77 PSY 334E Evolutionary Psychology 125 grades 3.78 PSY 364C Childhood Trauma and Adversity 211 grades 3.78 PSY 352P Psychopathology 2,487 grades 3.79 PSY 364P Positive Psychology and the Good Life 812 grades 3.80 PSY 333F Fantasy and Reality 101 grades 3.80 PSY 364T Multicultural Psychotherapy 1,179 grades 3.89 PSY 371 Learning and Memory 134 grades 3.90 PSY 309 Personality 2,011 grades 3.97 PSY 364 Introduction to Clinical Psychology 2,142 grades 3.98 Show all 31 classes By year 2025–26: 3.71 School year Average grade Grades 2023–24 3.50 10,983 2024–25 3.64 10,440 2025–26 3.71 11,338
Across every term since summer 2011, Psychology classes average 3.33 on 132,219 grades.
Compare departments 38th-highest of 83 Professor evaluations UT’s public results Sources UT grade reports We averaged every A to F grade UT reported in PSY 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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