Highest Enrolled Spring Courses – Success Rates

Spring Term

High enrolled courses?are courses with a large number of students and many class sections offered to meet demand.? Because most students enroll in more than one high enrolled course, improvements in these courses’ success rates can affect a large number of students.

The success rates of the ten highest enrolled courses are summarized in this report.? Course success rate is calculated as the number of A, B, C, and P grades divided by the total number of grades, including withdrawals.

This is a bar chart of the data included in the table below.

  • Success rates for the highest enrolled courses in spring 2025 range from 62.9% (MTH 95) to 86.2% (PSY 215).
  • Compared to the previous two spring terms, the success rates of nine out of ten spring 2025 courses are higher than the prior terms.
  • As in previous reports, seven to eight of the ten highest enrolled courses remain consistent.? This spring, PSY 215 and BI 112 have joined the list, replacing WR 227 and BA 101.
Course Spr 2023 Spr 2024 Spr 2025 Spring 2025 relative to prior two Spring terms
WR 121 61.6% 62.4% 67.5% Higher
WR 122 74.2% 76.5% 76.9% Higher
COMM 111 80.0% 84.1% 86.1% Higher
MTH 95 56.4% 56.6% 62.2% Higher
STAT 243 79.8% 76.6% 82.3% Higher
PSY 201A 75.4% 75.6% 81.5% Higher
MTH 111 61.1% 62.3% 62.9% Higher
PSY 215 85.1% 86.5% 86.2% Within range
BI 112 65.0% 68.0% 74.0% Higher
SOC 204 69.4% 73.1% 78.2% Higher

Success rates for all other spring term credit courses are available in the Argos YESS Success Rates of Highest Enrolling Courses Course – OLAP.? ?Success rates with equity gap data for previously completed academic years are available for all courses in the program/discipline review profiles.

Data Source:? Argos, YESS Success Rates of Highest Enrolling Courses, June 26, 2025