From Testudo seat counts

The hardest UMD courses to get

Courses that were still full after registration in recent semesters. If one of these is on your list, plan a backup section and turn on a seat alert before registration opens.

How this is counted

For each semester we read the seats left in every section once registration had settled (the current semester after add/drop). A course counts as full when at most 2% of its seats were left. Courses under 30 seats are left out. Full at the end does not mean impossible: seats open up when students drop, which is what seat alerts catch. Seat data read 2026-10-06.

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COMM107 Oral Communication: Principles and Practices
Full all 3 semestersabout 1919 seats a semester
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ENGL394 Business Writing
Full all 3 semestersabout 906 seats a semester
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ENES100 Introduction to Engineering Design
Full all 3 semestersabout 719 seats a semester
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ENES200 Technology and Consequences: Engineering, Ethics and Humanity
Full all 3 semestersabout 436 seats a semester
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PSYC221 Social Psychology
Full all 3 semestersabout 427 seats a semester
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ENGL395 Writing for Health Professions
Full all 3 semestersabout 397 seats a semester
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INST104 Design Across Campus
Full all 3 semestersabout 388 seats a semester
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ECON330 Money and Banking
Full all 3 semestersabout 283 seats a semester
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BMGT289I Why Good Managers Make Bad Decisions
Full all 3 semestersabout 263 seats a semester
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EDHD320 Human Development Through the Life Span
Full all 3 semestersabout 249 seats a semester
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MUSC205 History of Popular Music, 1950-Present
Full all 3 semestersabout 216 seats a semester
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PSYC234 Living the Good Life: The Psychology of Happiness
Full all 3 semestersabout 210 seats a semester
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HLTH377 Human Sexuality
Full all 3 semestersabout 207 seats a semester
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ENME382 Introduction to Materials Engineering
Full all 3 semestersabout 193 seats a semester
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MUSC210 The Impact of Music on Life
Full all 3 semestersabout 192 seats a semester
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ENEE244 Digital Logic Design
Full all 3 semestersabout 184 seats a semester
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EPIB301 Epidemiology for Public Health Practice
Full all 3 semestersabout 176 seats a semester
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ENEE290 Introduction to Differential Equations and Linear Algebra for Engineers
Full all 3 semestersabout 158 seats a semester
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INST155 Social Networking
Full all 3 semestersabout 150 seats a semester
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ENGL398R Writing Non-Fictional Narratives
Full all 3 semestersabout 133 seats a semester
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JOUR150 Introduction to Mass Communication
Full all 3 semestersabout 131 seats a semester
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ANTH210 Introduction to Medical Anthropology and Global Health
Full all 3 semestersabout 129 seats a semester
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BIOE120 Biology for Engineers
Full all 3 semestersabout 120 seats a semester
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BMGT289D Frauds, Scams, and Thefts: What, How and Why?
Full all 3 semestersabout 120 seats a semester
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ANTH222 Introduction to Ecological and Evolutionary Anthropology
Full all 3 semestersabout 120 seats a semester
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BSCI135 Amazing Green: Plants that Transformed the World
Full all 3 semestersabout 120 seats a semester
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EDHD306 Research Methods in Human Development
Full all 3 semestersabout 120 seats a semester
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PLCY302 Examining Pluralism in Public Policy
Full all 3 semestersabout 120 seats a semester
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ENGL392 Legal Writing
Full all 3 semestersabout 119 seats a semester
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CHSE205 Disability: From Stigma and Sideshow to Mainstream and Main Street
Full all 3 semestersabout 117 seats a semester
- Fall 2025 · full
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