Highest Enrolled Fall Courses – Success Rates
Fall Terms
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.
- Fall 2025 success rates for seven of the ten highest enrolled courses are higher than the prior two fall terms.
- Success rates for five courses – MTH 111, PSY 201A, BI 112, MP 111 and STAT 243 – have reached or surpassed Fall 2019 pre-pandemic levels.
| Course | Fall 2023 | Fall 2024 | Fall 2025 | Fall 2025 relative to prior two terms |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WR 121 | 67.8% | 71.4% | 73.5% | higher |
| MTH 95 | 49.0% | 56.6% | 50.1% | within range |
| MTH 111 | 60.1% | 61.9% | 64.6% | higher |
| PSY 201A | 72.7% | 79.0% | 80.4% | higher |
| WR 122 | 67.5% | 76.2% | 73.8% | within range |
| BA 101 | 74.7% | 77.2% | 77.3% | higher |
| COMM 111 | 80.5% | 83.4% | 84.8% | higher |
| BI 112 | 63.5% | 71.5% | 69.2% | within range |
| MP 111 | 77.1% | 84.9% | 85.9% | higher |
| STAT 243 | 75.9% | 80.2% | 81.2% | higher |
Seeking additional information?? Faculty and staff can access success rates for all fall credit courses in the Argos YESS Success Rates of Highest Enrolling Courses Course – OLAP.? This OLAP also enables the disaggregation of success rates by modality.? Success rates detailing equity gaps for prior completed academic years are available in the program/discipline review profiles.
Data Source: Argos, YESS Success Rates of Highest Enrolling Courses, January 2025