ECON 168
Introduction to Principles of Value Investing
Grades
3.95
Average grade awarded in ECON 168. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
99%
of the 210 letter grades
D, F or W
0.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
-
the registrar has this letter grade only this term
The registrar's own records: 210 grades over 5 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
No summer session is in that record.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 5 terms ran 3.89 to 3.99.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A 181 · 86.2%
- A- 27 · 12.9%
- B+ 1 · 0.5%
- B- 1 · 0.5%
Percentages are of the 210 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes.
How the non-letter outcomes are counted
They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Winter 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SIMON, WILLIAM E reviews ↗ | 3.96 | 3.97 | 170 | 4 | 99% | - | not teaching it |
| SIMON, WILLIAM E, JR reviews ↗ | 3.90 | 3.89 | 40 | 1 | 98% | - | not teaching it |
Why Predicted is not the Raw average
“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.
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Workload and assignments
Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.
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What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 5 courses long before ECON 168. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for ECON 168 in Winter 2026 and a department can change what it requires. dibs has read a class page for every course in it.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
In Winters
Has not run in Winter in the 4 Winters dibs holds records for, back to Fall 2021. That is 4 years of grade records rather than the course catalog, so it says what has happened and not what the department will do next.
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
Lecture, three hours. Requisites: course 101, Management 1A, 1B. Introduction to fundamental principles of value investing. Discussion of fundamental themes relating to value investing, and demonstration of how these ideas compare favorably with other investment approaches. Topics include differences between investment and speculation, how to search for inefficiencies in marketplace, and importance of incorporating margin of safety in any analysis. Introduction of standard accounting and valuation tools, including liquidation value. Prepares students to analyze and interpret financial statements. Designed for students considering careers in security analysis, investment banking, consulting, and corporate finance. Letter grading.
Sections in Winter 2026
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