Principles of Economics

Grades

2.97

Average grade awarded in ECON 1. Not a rating: this is what the grades were. i The mean of every letter grade the registrar has published for this course, pooled across every instructor who has taught it. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were. It is not shrunk toward anything, because a course average cannot be pulled toward itself. Standard error 0.008.

The registrar's own records: 5,990 grades over 17 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025, summer excluded. Every instructor is pooled here. The table below splits them, and term averages across those 17 terms ran 2.52 to 3.67.

By instructor

“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department, so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.

dibs measures outcomes: grades, seats, how fast a class fills. For what a class is like to sit in, BruinWalk has the reviews.

Reviews for ECON 1 ↗

In Falls

Ran in 5 of the last 5 Falls.

From the terms dibs holds, which start in Fall 2021 and exclude summer. A department can run a course in a quarter it never has before.

From the registrar's catalog

dibs has not read the registrar's description for this course. It reads them for general education courses only, so this says nothing about the course. Any section below links out to the registrar, where the catalog text is, and that text is also where a prerequisite the structured list does not carry would be written.

Sections in Fall 2026

You enroll in the discussion, not the lecture, so a discussion's status is the one that decides whether you get in. A lecture can read open while every discussion under it is full.

Seat counts as of 01 Sep 23:43: the oldest of these 11 readings. The registrar publishes hourly and dibs reads what it can each hour, so a row can be older than that.

• Lec 1 TR 9:30am-10:45am

  Waitlist

  No instructors

  2.98

  course average · 5,990 grades

  1 of 20 places taken. 251 of 251 · 5 over enrolled high risk i A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.

  10 discussions, 4 open: Dis 1A, M 10:00am-10:50am, Dis 1C, F 4:00pm-4:50pm, Dis 1H, F 12:00pm-12:50pm, and Dis 1J, T 4:00pm-4:50pm. Lecture reads closed, so its 4 open discussions cannot be reached from here. The way in is the lecture's waitlist, at 1 of 20.

  › Every discussion, with its time and seats (10)

  • Dis 1A

    M 10:00am-10:50am · Bunche Hall 3157

    Open

    1 seat left.

    39 of 40 enrolled

  • Dis 1B

    R 4:00pm-4:50pm · Bunche Hall 3170

    standing limit limited by standing: New Students Only: restrictions read 32 hours ago
    Closed

    17 of 17 · 5 over enrolled

  • Dis 1C

    F 4:00pm-4:50pm · Bunche Hall 3178

    Open

    28 seats left.

    12 of 40 enrolled

  • Dis 1D

    T 5:00pm-5:50pm · Bunche Hall 3211

    standing limit limited by standing: New Students Only: restrictions read 32 hours ago
    Closed

    8 of 8 · 13 over enrolled

  • Dis 1E

    W 2:00pm-2:50pm · Public Affairs Building 1337

    Waitlist

    1 of 2 places taken.

    40 of 40 enrolled

  • Dis 1F

    W 5:00pm-5:50pm · Bunche Hall 3211

    standing limit limited by standing: New Students Only: restrictions read 32 hours ago
    Closed

    9 of 9 · 13 over enrolled

  • Dis 1H

    F 12:00pm-12:50pm · Bunche Hall 2160

    Open

    9 seats left.

    31 of 40 enrolled

  • Dis 1J

    T 4:00pm-4:50pm · Bunche Hall 3156

    Open

    14 seats left.

    26 of 40 enrolled

  • Dis 1M

    M 10:00am-10:50am · Bunche Hall 3164

    standing limit limited by standing: New Students Only: restrictions read 32 hours ago
    Closed

    9 of 9 · 13 over enrolled

  • Dis 1O

    W 5:00pm-5:50pm · Bunche Hall 3178

    standing limit limited by standing: New Students Only: restrictions read 32 hours ago
    Closed

    8 of 8 · 13 over enrolled

Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 87 and 553 a term over 12 terms, summer excluded, most recently 284 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.

Seats over time in Fall 2026

How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.