Virginia Commonwealth University
Breakdown of “Scholastic Success” at VCU
By Gender
| Males | B- |
| Females | B- |
By Major
| Accounting | C |
| Anthropology | C |
| Art & Design Department | B- |
| Automotive Engineering | D+ |
| Biology | B- |
| Business - Management and Administration | C+ |
| Chemical Engineering | C+ |
| Chemistry | C+ |
| Communications | B- |
| Computer Engineering | B- |
| Computer Science | B- |
| Criminal | B |
| Design Arts - Industrial Design/Graphic Design/etc | A |
| Economics | B+ |
| Education | D- |
| Electrical Engineering | B |
| Engineering Department | B |
| English | A- |
| Finance | B- |
| Fine Arts - Painting/Sculpture/Photography/etc | B |
| History/Histories (art history/etc.) | C |
| Journalism | B- |
| Kinesiology | A+ |
| Language - French/Spanish/etc. | A- |
| Math | C- |
| Mechanical Engineering | A |
| Nursing | A+ |
| Other | B- |
| Perfomance Arts | B- |
| Pharmacy | B- |
| Philosophy | D+ |
| Physics | B |
| Political Science | C+ |
| PreLaw and Legal | A- |
| PreMed and Medical | D- |
| Psychology | A- |
| Religion/Religious | A |
| School of Information | A |
| Social Work | C- |
| Sociology | F |
| Undecided | B |
| Urban Planning | A- |
Against similar schools
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Scholastic Success
“... every single semester you had to deal with that, now you're not the teacher and sure there will a class or two that they are good but that would ...Read full comment
“... They'll wow you with their talk about exciting basketball and facility upgrades, but VCU needs to seriously work on the basic pillar of being a u...Read full comment
“... The students did not care about their grades, and seemed that nobody ever exercised ...Read full comment
“... So i decided after first semester to transfer, but since the only good grades i had were in VCUonly classes and the classes that I failed would b...Read full comment
“... I picked this school because it is not far from my house and I can live at home to get better grades; fat chance of that happening ...Read full comment
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Very depressing town full of obese people
A majority of the first year students are northern Virginian kids who only care about drinking and g...Read full comment
“... Some people say that the people here are laid-back; but what I think they meant is that the people here (even honors students in some cases) rea...Read full comment
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I've heard before that VCU grades exceptionally hard (and they do) and for one reason- to fail students ...Read full comment
“... The grades and SAT score needed to get in are a joke, so if you're expecting to be surrounded by intelligent people you will most likely be disa...Read full comment
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