About

What UBC Flow is

UBC Flow is a course planning site with a built-in schedule planner, made by UBC students, for UBC students. Inspired by the University of Waterloo's UW Flow, it set out to be the only tool you need before Workday registration day.

UBC Flow has an assortment of tools for looking up a course, reading student reviews, checking real grade distributions, comparing a professor against the course average, and building your term schedule, all without ten tabs open at once. Once you've built a schedule, it syncs straight to your phone's calendar, so it's already there when you need it. Grade data, quick links out to RateMyProfessors and Reddit, a direct Workday import, and term-by-term degree guidance all live here too.

We want to know everything about your student experience, how brutal the course material actually is, whether a professor's lectures match the textbook, or that one professor you absolutely adored. All of the feedback you don't get in a course description. Every review you leave makes course selection easier for the nearly 75,000 other UBC students.

History

UBC Flow started as a first-year side project. Its founder, Ryan Giang, transferred universities and programs from Engineering into Computer Science and immediately ran into the same wall every UBC student hits when it's time to register courses: not enough information on courses, and a Workday system with no real infrastructure for the simple things like viewing your schedule, finding a section, and seeing degree requirements. All of it became a hassle.

Planning which courses to take should be more convenient and accessible, so he built the tool he wished existed.

UBC Flow is still an independent, unofficial project, not affiliated with, endorsed by, or run by UBC. Always double-check dates, prerequisites, and registration details directly with the university.

Founder

Where the data comes from

Course and section information comes from UBC's public course catalogue. Grade distributions are UBC PAIR summaries, accessed via ubcgrades.com. Professor pages may link out to RateMyProfessors and Reddit for outside opinions. Reviews are written by students on this site.

Reviews are anonymous

Reviews you post are shown to other students without your name attached. They are tied to your account behind the scenes so you can edit or delete them, but nobody browsing the site can see who wrote what.