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Rutgers’ GPA multiplies each grade’s value by the course’s credits and divides by the credits counted: A is 4.0, B+ 3.5, B 3.0, C+ 2.5, C 2.0, D 1.0 and F 0.0, with no minus grades and no D+. W, Pass/No Credit, S/U, H and E- or J-prefixed courses, transfer grades, and NG or TZ marks (until they turn into an F) stay out of it.
Rutgers’s points: A 4.00, B+ 3.50, B 3.00, C+ 2.50 and so on.
The plus/minus cutoffs Wikipedia lists for US colleges: A+ from 97%, A 93, A- 90, B+ 87, B 83, B- 80 and so on down to D- at 60. It is not universal, so use your syllabus's cutoffs when they differ.Source: Wikipedia, “Academic grading in the United States”.
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Each letter starts at its lowest percentage and runs up to the next letter.
Rounding and decimal places
Follow your syllabus. A displayed percentage can round up while the unrounded score stays below a cutoff.
Only changes how results are shown. Extra places appear when rounding would push a score over a letter cutoff.
A letter typed as a score counts as the lowest percentage for that letter on this scale. Use the original percentage when you have it.
Only scales that publish GPA points can convert a percentage. Check that your school uses these same points.
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Quality points are the more exact input when the displayed GPA has already been rounded. Do not include these same credits again in the course rows.
Raise my GPA: what would it take to reach a target?
These are future credits beyond the courses and earlier record entered above.
Pass/fail or a retake: what would change?
Whether a pass/fail course leaves the GPA and whether a retake replaces the old grade are your school’s rules; the table below shows Rutgers’s.
One grade higher: which course moves your GPA most?
Each line raises one course by one grade on the grade points above and leaves the others as entered, so a course that carries more credit moves the GPA more. A course you haven’t finished can be marked “Planned” in its ⋯ menu: the GPA so far then leaves it out, and the projection counts it at the grade you chose. A grade already on your transcript changes only under your school’s retake or grade-change rules.
Compare with a GPA line (dean's list, scholarship, good standing)Course groups and equal weights
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Rutgers’s rules checked in its New Brunswick Undergraduate Catalog 2026–2027. Sources are at the bottom of the page.
Grade points at Rutgers
Rutgers multiplies each course’s grade points by its credit hours, adds them up and divides by the hours that count. Enter your courses above with these points already set.
Rutgers University–New Brunswick letter grades and grade points
What W, pass/fail, incomplete, retakes and transfer credit do at Rutgers
A course left out of the GPA adds no points and no hours. In the calculator, choose its code or “Not counted”; a code that counts as zero lowers the GPA like a failing grade.
How Rutgers counts each code
Code
What it means
In the Rutgers GPA
W
Withdrew from the course by the end of the eighth week of the semester
No grade is given for the work, so the course adds nothing to the GPA. Drop after the eighth full week and you get an F (or U or NC) instead, and that F counts. Rule
P or NC
Pass (A through C work) or No Credit (D or F work), under the Pass/No Credit option
Nonnumerical grades, left out of the GPA. A Pass earns degree credit. SAS students need 90 or more credits and can use the option for at most two courses. Rule
TB+, TB, TC+, TC, TD, TF
Temporary (incomplete) grade. The letter after the T is the grade you get if the missing work is never done.
A TF counts as an F in the GPA right away, and for academic standing every T grade counts as its letter. Fall T grades must be finished by May 1 and spring and summer ones by December 1, or the letter becomes permanent. Rule
TZ or NG
Incomplete for a verified emergency (TZ), or no grade given by the instructor (NG)
No immediate effect on the GPA. If it isn’t resolved within the following semester, it turns into an F and the GPA is recalculated. Rule
S or U
Satisfactory or unsatisfactory, in a course with the N credit prefix
Left out of the GPA, and the course earns no degree credit. Rule
H
Given instead of a grade for the first semester of a full-year honors course
Left out of the GPA until the final grade comes in at the end of the course. The credits still count toward the degree. Rule
E or J prefix
E: no degree credit. J: degree credit, such as Rutgers courses taken in high school.
Either way, the grade is left out of the GPA. Rule
Repeated course
You took the same course again
Retaking a course normally keeps both grades in the GPA. But for up to 16 credits in no more than four courses, retaking a course you got an F or D in drops the old grade from the GPA: it stays on the transcript with an E prefix, and the new grade (R prefix) counts. It works once per course, the retake must be at Rutgers–New Brunswick, and it can’t clear an F given for academic dishonesty. If you get an F or D again, only the second grade counts. A course you passed with a C or better can only be retaken for E credit, which is left out of the GPA. Retakes don’t undo past academic standing actions or add you to an old Dean’s List. Rule
Transfer credit
Grades from another college
Grades from schools outside Rutgers aren’t posted to the Rutgers transcript or counted in the Rutgers GPA, and nothing below a C (2.000) transfers. Courses taken at another Rutgers campus, such as Newark or Camden, do count in the GPA. SAS accepts at most 60 transfer credits from two-year schools and 90 from four-year schools. Rule
For honors, Rutgers never rounds an average up, so the calculator cuts the GPA to two decimals: 3.499 shows as 3.49, not 3.50.
Rutgers GPA lines
These are Rutgers’s published undergraduate lines, each with the other conditions its catalog sets. Your college or program may set its own, higher lines.
Published GPA lines at Rutgers
GPA line
What it means
Also required
Below 2.000 in a semester
Academic warning the first time; academic probation after two or more semesters in a row (School of Arts and Sciences)
The SAS Committee on Academic Standing reviews anyone whose semester or cumulative GPA is below 2.000. On warning you can take at most 16 credits. A semester GPA of 2.000 or higher restores good standing, but retaking a course doesn’t undo a past standing action. Only courses taken at Rutgers count. Full rule
Cumulative below 1.500, 1.700, 1.900 or 2.000 after the 2nd, 4th, 6th or 8th semester
Suspension or dismissal from the School of Arts and Sciences
Checked at the end of each spring semester. You must have had at least one semester of warning before a suspension, and a later failure after a suspension can mean dismissal. Semesters at other colleges count toward the semester total; winter and summer sessions don’t. A 2.000 cumulative GPA is the minimum to complete a degree. Full rule
3.500 or higher in a semester
Dean’s List (School of Arts and Sciences)
Full-time students need at least 12.0 letter-graded credits that semester; Pass/No Credit and E credits don’t count. Other schools set their own lines: the School of Engineering asks for 3.5 (seniors), 3.4 (juniors), 3.3 (sophomores) or 3.2 (first-year students), with no F and at least 12 letter-graded engineering credits. Full rule
3.500, 3.700 or 3.850 cumulative at graduation
Cum laude, magna cum laude or summa cum laude (School of Arts and Sciences)
Based on the Rutgers cumulative GPA. Averages aren’t rounded up, so a 3.499 does not make cum laude. Full rule
To see how far you are from one of them, enter it under “Compare with a GPA line” in the calculator, or as your target in the target GPA planner.
A worked example
Rutgers can drop an F or D from the GPA when you retake the course, for up to four courses. A D in a 4-credit course, retaken for a B+, and an A in a 3-credit course: the D drops out, so (3.5 × 4 + 4.0 × 3) ÷ 7 = 3.71. Counting both attempts would give 2.727…, which the calculator shows as 2.72, and a C can’t be replaced this way at all.
The calculator gives an estimate from the grades you enter. Your official GPA is the one on your Rutgers academic record.
For any other college, the college GPA calculator starts on the common plus/minus 4.0 points and takes your school’s own. Cumulative GPA combines terms you already have, and the GPA guide answers what a GPA means.
