There are Web sites that rate college professors on their teaching style or good looks, but a new site gets down to the most crucial of measures—grades. TheCampusBuddy.com enables students to find out how generously A’s are awarded (or not) in every class before they enroll.

“It takes the mystery out,” said the Web site's creator Mike Moradi, 23, adding that the grade distribution “lets you know where you stand.”

Launched in mid-February, the student-run site includes grade breakdown of every class and major and a rating system for professors in all eight UC schools, 18 of the 23 CSUs and 18 community colleges around the state. Included in this list are SF State as well as City College of San Francisco and Diablo Valley College, SF State’s two main feeder schools who together sent 781 students to SF State in 2007, according to the Office of University and Budget Planning.

According to the site, the average GPA of SF State students is a 3.1 and 69 percent of students here receive at least a B in their classes. These findings are based on 20,623 total grades analyzed by the site, but the data differs significantly by department; nursing students, for example, earn an average GPA of 3.69 and 95 percent of marine sciences students achieve at least a B average, according to the site.

Users can also generate reviews about their professors through personal reflections and a five-star rating system once they have completed the course. One feature even allows students to choose a combination of five courses, professors or departments and see how their grade distributions compare to one another.

Moradi and co-creator Brandon Sos, 22, former roommates and UCLA alumni, assembled a team of 10 students to spend nearly two years compiling the site’s information from school records and officials. At press time, more than 13 million grades from 44 universities had been incorporated.

Noting that there are other professor rating Web sites available to students, Moradi insisted theCampusBuddy is unparalleled.

“The feedback is more objective and more valuable,” Moradi said, adding that the reviews “give a comprehensive look at each professor.”

Unlike other universities around the state, SF State doesn’t have its own official professor rating site. To create a class schedule, some students rely on feedback posted on sites such as RateMyProfessors.com, which doesn’t include a grade breakdown or statistics from SF State specifically.

Sarah Brunskill, 22, has consulted RateMyProfessors.com before every registration period to figure out which professors received positive reviews and those whose classes she should avoid.

“[The results] determine my schedule,” said the psychology major, who had heard of theCampusBuddy.com and likes that it sounds more school-specific.

Even professors have given theCampusBuddy.com positive feedback. A recent e-mail sent by a professor at CSU Sacramento said the Web site was “very interesting” and “helpful for students as well as professors.”

However, not all students take these ratings into consideration when choosing their classes for the following semester. Amy Huckabay, an SF State communications major, doesn’t pay much attention to how well a professor is rated during registration.

“I hate night classes, so I look at timing, not professors,” Huckabay, 20, said of her schedule, which includes a three-hour class on Friday mornings. “You can’t really be picky.”

Cynthia Chang, a holistic health instructor at SF State, also doesn’t look up her ratings.

“My teaching style chances every semester, even with the same classes,” Chang said.

Moradi said they plan to continue improving theCampusBuddy.com and adding more schools around California with the hope that it’ll become the go-to site for students.

“[Students] deserve feedback that’ll affect [their] academic lives,” he said.