GPAs of Every Course at The University of Illinois

Originally published by Justin Lee, Nate Claussen, Wade Fagen-Ulmschneider, and Cinda Heeren
Updated for Fall 2025 Registration on April 07, 2025 by Wade Fagen-Ulmschneider

New GPA Visualization 🎉
On Friday, April 11, we published a new GPA visualization "Grade Disparities and Accolades by Instructor at UIUC" that provides a highlights faculty who are luminaries in their field and renowned teachers, in addition to important GPA distribution information. We think it's the best work yet.

This visualization is the second in a series of GPA visualizations created to explore the grades given by courses at The University of Illinois. This visualization was the very first one that began the ongoing exploration.

GPA Visualization

The worse the GPA, the more purple hue we add to the color.
The larger the course, the larger the radius of the circle.
(Circle sizes are relative to each college's largest course, not between colleges.)