Daily Nexus Grades Search Data Files

The published data in this repository includes the total number of UC Santa Barbara students receiving each grade — before pass/fail and satisfactory/unsatisfactory conversions — for courses offered from Fall 2009 until Spring 2025 that had five or more students enrolled. Instructors of optionally-graded courses do not know what grading option students have selected, according to the Office of the Registrar. The data is visualized on the Daily Nexus Grades Search Website, and the website and the repository will be regularly updated as new data arrives. All data is free to reuse.

• courseGrades.csv The Daily Nexus obtained this data from the Office of the Registrar via multiple Public Records Act requests. The file is made up of all the original data acquired from the Registrar's office combined, and it contains UCSB course grade data from Fall 2009 to Winter 2025 in wide-form with statistics calculated by the Nexus. Data includes quarter, course level, course number, instructor, average GPA for a course, and the total number of students who chose each grading option. Columns with "p" after a letter refer to plus grades, and columns with "m" after a letter refer to minus grades. "S" represents satisfactory grades, and "su" represents unsatisfactory grades.
• ges_long_form.csv The Daily Nexus obtained this data from the College of Letters and Science's degree requirements website. The file is made up of all the 2023-24 courses that apply to each General Education and special subject requirement, and the data in this file is in long-form.
• ges.csv This file contains the data from ges_long_form.csv formatted in wide-form by the Nexus. "AHI" represents the American History and Institutions requirement.

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