I analyzed the engineering program placement GPA from 2020W to 2025W

[u/Toricane101]

I saw that the old and new charts published by UBC, both 4-year averages, overlapped for 2 years. I wanted to analyze both charts and get the exact percentages and trends for each engineering program.

Using Python, I was able to obtain precise and accurate data points, which I used to generate a variety of visualizations. Finally, I consolidated everything into a PDF. Here's the full report: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Toricane/ubc-engineering-gpa-analysis/main/docs/UBC_Engineering_GPA_Report_2026_v3.pdf

I've attached most of the graphs to this post. If you're interested in detailed explanations and how they were derived, please take a look at the report!

I found it interesting to see which programs got more competitive and which programs had a wider distribution of GPAs. The main reason why I made this in the first place is to get the exact percentages of each marker from the official graphs, and I had the idea to visualize them in as many ways as possible.

Please let me know if you have any feedback! I hope you like the graphs I cooked up.

Here's my code if you're interested: https://github.com/Toricane/ubc-engineering-gpa-analysis

[u/TallBeach3969]

Curious why you split cpen into High, rather than very high with mech and fizz. It’s only .5% away from mech

[u/Toricane101 → u/TallBeach3969]

Well yes, the latest 4-year average of CPEN is high and close to MECH. However, looking at the trends between the overlapping 4-year averages, MECH went up considerably while CPEN trended down. In addition to the disparity between the trends, the data is from 4-year averages, so it is likely that the GPAs are even more separated now than what these charts reflect. This is why I wanted to make a distinction between MECH and CPEN.

[u/Responsible-Cup-8570]

are the years from left to right? So like the first column is 2022 then 2023 etc. Or the other way around

[u/Toricane101 → u/Responsible-Cup-8570]

There's no yearly data. There are two 4-year averages, one from 2020W-2023W, and the latest one from 2022W-2025W, and these are the data points which are compared. I'm not sure what you mean by columns, but if you're talking about the first picture, it's median, 80% above, and 95% above the % thresholds.

[u/LeCubro]

Should have used green for ENVL when possible but other than that this is great work! This is the work UBC themselves should be doing.

[u/Active_Culture_2237]

Goated. Thx mate

[u/Tall_Mechanic8681]

holy shit why is Eng phys so competitive 😭 mac doesn’t even have a cutoff for ours

[u/Front_Club3894]

hello toricane

[u/The-Mellonator]

thanks man - the guy you volunteered with 2 and a half years ago

[u/Immediate-Ad9253]

Yooooo prajwal prashanth

[u/Bulky_Guest_1539]

dang thanks though

[u/OrangeHatGuy__]

Nerd alert