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UGA’s GPA divides grade points by hours attempted for a letter grade: A is 4.00, A− 3.70, B+ 3.30 and so on down to F at 0, with no A+, D+ or D−. W, I, S, U, V, K, NR, NG and the other non-letter marks stay out of it.
UGA’s points: A 4.00, A− 3.70, B+ 3.30, B 3.00 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”.
Your class cutoffs
Letter
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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.
Example courses. Change them to yours, or
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Include your earlier GPA
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 UGA’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
Set a course's group or term, or mark it planned, in its ⋯ menu. Groups are just your labels: they don’t apply AMCAS or other application-service GPA rules.
Import courses from a transcript or spreadsheet
Copy the courses from your unofficial transcript, degree audit or a spreadsheet and paste them here, one course per line with its grade and credits. Term headings such as “Fall 2025” keep the courses in their terms. Your grades stay in this browser.
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Course
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This replaces the courses above. You can put them back afterwards.
Save my courses or compare versions
Nothing is sent to us. Untick the box to forget them.
To compare plans, save the courses as they are now as a version, change them, and save again. Versions stay in this browser until you delete them.
Open a file you saved with “Save the versions to a file”, in this browser or another. It is read in your browser and sent nowhere.
UGA’s rules checked in its UGA Bulletin 2026–2027 and the UGA Policy Library. Sources are at the bottom of the page.
Grade points at UGA
UGA 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.
University of Georgia letter grades and grade points
What W, pass/fail, incomplete, retakes and transfer credit do at UGA
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.
Left out of the GPA until the instructor’s grade replaces it. Rule
Repeated course
You took the same course again
Every attempt counts in the GPA; credit is earned only once, and the highest grade is the one used for degree requirements. Rule
Transfer credit
Grades from another college
Transfer grades stay out of the UGA cumulative GPA used for academic standing but count in the overall GPA that decides graduation honors. Rule
UGA cuts GPAs to two decimals instead of rounding: 3.596 counts as 3.59.
UGA GPA lines
These are UGA’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 UGA
GPA line
What it means
Also required
Below 2.00 UGA cumulative
Academic Warning after the first such term; Academic Probation once it stays below 2.00 for two or more terms in a row
Only UGA courses count: transfer credit is left out of this GPA. Schools and colleges may set higher standards for their degrees. A 2.00 cumulative GPA is also the minimum to graduate. Full rule
4.00 in a semester
Presidential Scholar
At least 14 hours numbered 1000 or higher that semester (9 in summer), and no U or I grades. Full rule
3.50 or higher in a semester
Dean’s List (for students not named Presidential Scholar)
No grade below a B, no U or I grades, and at least 14 hours numbered 1000 or higher that semester (9 in summer). Full rule
3.60 or higher overall
Graduation with honors: cum laude 3.60–3.74, magna cum laude 3.75–3.89, summa cum laude 3.90–4.0
Based on the overall GPA, which adds all college-level transfer work attempted before or after entering UGA. A 4.0 overall makes you a First Honor Graduate. 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
UGA keeps two GPAs. A 3-hour A at UGA and a 3-hour C transferred from another college: the UGA cumulative GPA, used for academic standing, is 4.00, while the overall GPA, used for graduation honors, is (4.00 × 3 + 2.00 × 3) ÷ 6 = 3.00.
The calculator gives an estimate from the grades you enter. Your official GPA is the one on your UGA 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.
