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ECON 490: Topics in Economics

87% of the 5,974 students who finished ECON 490 at UIUC got an A or B, across 170 sections and 56 instructors.

A 53%B 34%C 9%D/F 4%W 0%

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InstructorGrades givenStudents
Garin, Andrew L
2 sections · last Spring 2023
88% A · 12% B · 0% C · 0% D/F
66
Perry, Martin
4 sections · last Spring 2025
65% A · 35% B · 0% C · 0% D/F
212
Dubovyk, Tetyana
2 sections · last Spring 2025
66% A · 32% B · 0% C · 2% D/F
56
Wang, Cihang
4 sections · last Spring 2025
70% A · 26% B · 4% C · 0% D/F
151
Vazquez, Jose J
10 sections · last Summer 2022
81% A · 14% B · 2% C · 2% D/F
610
Song, Lena
1 section · last Fall 2024
51% A · 42% B · 0% C · 7% D/F
43
Cenerini, Francesco
5 sections · last Spring 2025
56% A · 35% B · 4% C · 5% D/F
140
Bhardwaj, Sakshi
4 sections · last Spring 2023
61% A · 27% B · 9% C · 3% D/F
150
Sora, Marcos G
1 section · last Fall 2025
54% A · 32% B · 11% C · 4% D/F
28
Armendariz Buau, Ramses Y
4 sections · last Spring 2022
66% A · 20% B · 11% C · 4% D/F
168
Howard, Gregory L
5 sections · last Spring 2022
54% A · 30% B · 9% C · 7% D/F
202
Bilias, Ioannis
1 section · last Spring 2022
43% A · 40% B · 13% C · 4% D/F
106
Stocker, Abigail J
3 sections · last Spring 2025
63% A · 20% B · 14% C · 3% D/F
70
Yi, Minh Joo
2 sections · last Spring 2024
31% A · 45% B · 20% C · 4% D/F
74
Sun, Yuanyuan
4 sections · last Spring 2025
26% A · 48% B · 19% C · 7% D/F
207
Past instructors (41) · last taught before 2022
Gottheil, Fred M
1 section · last Spring 2015
71% A · 29% B · 0% C · 0% D/F
35
Zare, Meysam
1 section · last Spring 2021
57% A · 43% B · 0% C · 0% D/F
30
Ghosh, Priyasmita
3 sections · last Spring 2021
93% A · 6% B · 0% C · 1% D/F
88
Shin, Min Chul
3 sections · last Spring 2018
59% A · 40% B · 1% C · 0% D/F
75
Bebczuk, Ricardo N
3 sections · last Spring 2016
55% A · 43% B · 2% C · 0% D/F
127
Lee, JiHyung
2 sections · last Spring 2016
62% A · 36% B · 0% C · 2% D/F
53
Das, Satya P
6 sections · last Spring 2018
36% A · 62% B · 2% C · 0% D/F
236
Hong, Seung-Hyun
3 sections · last Spring 2020
31% A · 66% B · 1% C · 1% D/F
83
Esfahani, Hadi S
2 sections · last Spring 2018
75% A · 22% B · 1% C · 1% D/F
76
Shafer, Rachel C
3 sections · last Spring 2016
68% A · 29% B · 3% C · 0% D/F
97
Bartik, Alexander W
1 section · last Spring 2019
46% A · 48% B · 6% C · 0% D/F
33
Vardanyan, Ani
1 section · last Spring 2016
37% A · 57% B · 7% C · 0% D/F
30
Gao, Xing
3 sections · last Spring 2018
55% A · 38% B · 6% C · 1% D/F
110
Park, Woong Yong
1 section · last Fall 2015
65% A · 27% B · 8% C · 0% D/F
26
Wang, Xin
4 sections · last Spring 2017
69% A · 23% B · 8% C · 0% D/F
142
McDermott, Eric M
2 sections · last Fall 2017
36% A · 54% B · 10% C · 0% D/F
59
Yang, Bei
1 section · last Spring 2018
59% A · 31% B · 7% C · 3% D/F
29
Farhoodi, Abdollah
3 sections · last Spring 2020
57% A · 31% B · 9% C · 3% D/F
67
Arvan, Lanny
4 sections · last Fall 2019
52% A · 36% B · 6% C · 6% D/F
110
Khazra, Nazanin
2 sections · last Spring 2020
68% A · 19% B · 13% C · 0% D/F
47
Poloni Sant Ann, Vinicios
4 sections · last Spring 2020
46% A · 40% B · 13% C · 1% D/F
152
Zhao, Rui
5 sections · last Spring 2016
36% A · 50% B · 11% C · 3% D/F
165
Buckley, Bryan D
4 sections · last Spring 2017
32% A · 54% B · 12% C · 2% D/F
135
Wade, John Julian P
2 sections · last Spring 2021
63% A · 23% B · 7% C · 8% D/F
75
Grigoryan, Aram
3 sections · last Spring 2018
36% A · 49% B · 14% C · 1% D/F
88
Williams, Steven R
1 section · last Fall 2015
33% A · 52% B · 11% C · 4% D/F
27
Kleemans, Maria
6 sections · last Spring 2017
51% A · 34% B · 11% C · 5% D/F
164
Powers, Elizabeth T
3 sections · last Fall 2021
33% A · 51% B · 15% C · 1% D/F
73
Osman, Adam M
3 sections · last Spring 2016
41% A · 42% B · 17% C · 0% D/F
98
Bonomo, Marco Antonio C
1 section · last Fall 2018
46% A · 36% B · 18% C · 0% D/F
22
Baerlocher Carv, Diogo
4 sections · last Summer 2015
47% A · 34% B · 10% C · 8% D/F
114
DiIanni, Isaac
7 sections · last Summer 2015
51% A · 30% B · 9% C · 10% D/F
258
Amini Behbahani, Amirhoss
3 sections · last Spring 2018
47% A · 32% B · 15% C · 7% D/F
103
Philipps, Collin S
1 section · last Spring 2018
44% A · 33% B · 7% C · 15% D/F
27
Li, Zening
4 sections · last Spring 2017
32% A · 42% B · 18% C · 9% D/F
101
Toossi, Ali
4 sections · last Spring 2020
24% A · 44% B · 25% C · 6% D/F
107
Fung, Juan F
3 sections · last Spring 2016
41% A · 26% B · 17% C · 15% D/F
87
Shakiba, Mehdi
6 sections · last Spring 2019
35% A · 28% B · 25% C · 11% D/F
190
Rodrigues Junio, Mauro
2 sections · last Spring 2020
28% A · 29% B · 33% C · 10% D/F
72
Hurtado Martill, Carlos A
1 section · last Fall 2017
38% A · 4% B · 12% C · 46% D/F
24

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