Highest Enrolling Fall Courses – Success Rates
Fall Terms
Given most students enroll in more than one “high enrolling course” during their time at PCC, improvements in these course success rates have the potential to impact a large number of students.? The ten highest enrolling courses are summarized below.
- Fall 2024 success rates for all of the ten highest enrolling courses are higher than the prior two fall terms.
- Success rates for five courses – PSY 201A, WR 122, BI 112 and RD 115 – have reached or surpassed pre-pandemic levels of Fall 2019.
| Course | Fall 2022 | Fall 2023 | Fall 2024 | F2024 relative to prior two terms |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WR 121 | 66.3% | 67.8% | 71.4% | Higher |
| MTH 95 | 50.4% | 49.0% | 56.6% | Higher |
| MTH 111 | 57.8% | 60.1% | 61.9% | Higher |
| PSY 201A | 70.7% | 72.7% | 79.0% | Higher |
| WR 122 | 73.5% | 67.5% | 76.2% | Higher |
| BA 101 | 76.7% | ?74.7% | 77.2% | Higher |
| COMM 111 | 81.0% | ?80.5% | 83.4% | Higher |
| BI 112 | 65.2% | 63.5% | 71.5% | Higher |
| MP 111 | 77.2% | 77.1% | 84.9% | Higher |
| RD 115 | 62.3% | 69.2% | 73.5% | Higher |
PCC faculty and staff can access data for courses with 6 or more enrollments here.? Additionally, all 1,152 courses including success rates by instructional modality are available to faculty and staff with Argos accounts in the YESS Success Rates of Highest Enrolling Courses – OLAP.
*Success rate is calculated as the number of grades A, B, C, and P divided by the total number of grades, including withdraws.
Data Source: Argos, YESS Success Rates of Highest Enrolling Courses, January 2024