the typical american undergraduate student had a g.p.a. great point average in the two point five two point six range the city was a little not only gentlemen great it was often the most common draped certainly i'm beginning survey courses yeah our two point five the current average for the entire american. academy. for undergraduates is about three point one three point one five if you're in a college of education it's probably about a three point nine seven because they don't want to hurt the self-esteem of anyone who wants to be a future teacher so odd this is which it which is another reason why we have problems with our under whether k. through twelve system but that's a a discussion for another day so we do have have we have very few incentives on the part of students to work car the average student according to u.s. department of labor data spends twenty seven hours a week in class writing papers taking exams etc etc on academic work they do this for thirty a week see here eight hundred hours a year how many hours does the average eight s