<p>Hi, I heard engineering undergrads tend to have low GPA's upon graduation. I was wondering what the average exit GPA's are and what grad schools kids typically get into and do you ever wish you went to a university with a smaller class size? Also, would you have preferred the semester to the quarter system? Thank you!</p>
<p>The difference in gpa for Latin Honors is only about 0.15 points, so that can be used as a rough indicator for GPA averages as a whole, since Latin Honors is determined by constant percentages of the graduating classes.</p>
<p>The last time I investigated this was when my son was a graduating senior. Here is how the gpa breakdown went:</p>
<p>For engineering as a whole, the average GPA required for the Latin Honors is lower than for any other college at UCLA. That indicates harsher grading in all of the engineering majors.</p>
<p>The minimum GPA requirements for the 2006-07 academic year were as follows:</p>
<p>School of the Arts and Architecture: 3.924 for summa cum laude, 3.862 for magna cum laude, 3.777 for cum laude </p>
<p>College of Letters and Science: 3.862 for summa cum laude, 3.769 for magna cum laude, 3.638 for cum laude </p>
<p>School of Nursing: 3.862 for summa cum laude, 3.769 for magna cum laude, 3.638 for cum laude </p>
<p>Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science: 3.834 for summa cum laude, 3.728 for magna cum laude, 3.575 for cum laude.</p>
<p>School of Theater, Film, and Television: 3.907 for summa cum laude, 3.857 for magna cum laude, 3.753 for cum laude</p>
<p>Speaking about graduate schools and for Mechanical Engineering at UCLA, there are usually ~2 top students who get accepted to a PhD program at MIT or Stanford. A bunch of students will make it back to UCLA for the M.S program even with a GPA of 3.0-3.4 (the average GPA for a M.S applicant is around 3.55-3.6). It seems like the rest of the students are going into the industry.</p>
<p>At graduation, I would estimate the average GPA of students to be slightly above a 3.0.</p>
<p>This is UCLA’s average GPA. You can probably assume that the school of engineering has a lower average.</p>
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<p>UCLA Band Mom: Where would one find that info for the current and most recent years? I know my daughter would be interested to see it and she will graduate in 2012.</p>
<p>You can ask the counselor about those things. I dont know if there is other ways though.</p>
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<p>Latest GPA requirements are posted here. Scroll down to “Latin Honors”
[UCLA</a> Schedule of Classes: Academic Policies](<a href=“http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/soc/policy.htm#Anchor-Degree-5185]UCLA”>http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/soc/policy.htm#Anchor-Degree-5185)</p>
<p>*Latin Honors</p>
<p>The College and schools award Latin honors according to overall grade-point average at graduation. Honors are reflected on official transcripts and diplomas. Eligible students must have completed at least 90 (98 for the School of Nursing) University of California units for a letter grade. The levels of honors are summa cum laude, magna cum laude, and cum laude. The minimum GPA requirements for the 2006-07 academic year are as follows:</p>
<p>School of the Arts and Architecture: 3.907 for summa cum laude, 3.849 for magna cum laude, 3.739 for cum laude </p>
<p>College of Letters and Science: 3.879 for summa cum laude, 3.786 for magna cum laude, 3.648 for cum laude </p>
<p>School of Nursing: 3.879 for summa cum laude, 3.786 for magna cum laude, 3.648 for cum laude </p>
<p>Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science: 3.844 for summa cum laude, 3.754 for magna cum laude, 3.630 for cum laude. In addition, the school requires the upper division GPA to be 3.844 for summa cum laude, 3.754 for magna cum laude, 3.630 for cum laude; a minimum 3.25 GPA in the major; and at least 80 upper division units completed at UC </p>
<p>School of Theater, Film, and Television: 3.962 for summa cum laude, 3.886 for magna cum laude, 3.821 for cum laude </p>
<p>Requirements are subject to yearly change and other eligibility restrictions. Contact the College or school for information.*</p>
<p>you can look up the average gpa by going to [UCLA</a> Office of Analysis and Information Management | AIM](<a href=“http://www.aim.ucla.edu/aprs/apbaprs.asp]UCLA”>http://www.aim.ucla.edu/aprs/apbaprs.asp) then picking a department and displaying the report.</p>
<p>Thanks for the link!</p>
<p>Geez… a 3.7 average GPA for a film, television, and digital media major.</p>
<p>Thanks everyone. How do you all feel about beiong on the quarter system? To me this seems like such a short amount of time for you to learn such intense matter!!</p>
<p>The material learned in 10 weeks is reasonable, although you maybe have midterms much more frequent than students on the semester system. I remember my first year, I had a midterm on Week 2!</p>
<p>The only concern about a 10 week quarter is the short amount of time for projects. 10 weeks really limits the scope for an engineering design project.</p>
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so true. probably the biggest disadvantage of the quarter system (for engineers)</p>