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UIUC’s GPA counts every course attempted for a letter grade: A+ and A are both 4.00, A− 3.67, B+ 3.33 and so on down to F at 0.00. CR, NC, S, U, W, I (incomplete), AU and the other non-letter symbols stay out.
UIUC’s points: A+ 4.00, A 4.00, A− 3.67, B+ 3.33 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
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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 UIUC’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.
UIUC’s rules checked in its Student Code 2026–2027. Sources are at the bottom of the page.
Grade points at UIUC
UIUC 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 Illinois Urbana-Champaign letter grades and grade points
What W, pass/fail, incomplete, retakes and transfer credit do at UIUC
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.
Both grades of a repeated course normally count, but up to 4 distinct courses (10 hours at most) first graded C− or lower can each be repeated once for grade replacement, filed with the college in the first half of the term, so only the second grade counts (unless a passed course is failed on the retake). Rule
Transfer credit
Grades from another college
Transfer credit comes in as hours only, without grades, so it doesn’t count in the UIUC GPA. Rule
UIUC GPA lines
These are UIUC’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 UIUC
GPA line
What it means
Also required
Below 2.0, cumulative or in a semester
Academic Warning from the next semester
Based on the UIUC semester or cumulative GPA; not meeting program requirements also counts, summer included. A college can also place a student on warning, or waive the rules, at its judgment. Full rule
Below 1.0 in a semester
Dropped from the university
Fall or spring only (summer and winter sessions don’t count). The student’s college can waive the drop. Full rule
About the top 20 percent of a college in a semester
Dean’s List
Each college sets its own GPA level. You need at least 12 hours taken for a letter grade (9 for eligible students registered with DRES); students with I, DFR or missing grades are added once those grades are resolved. Full rule
3.5 and top 3 percent (graduating by Spring 2030); 4.0 (Summer 2030 on)
Bronze Tablet, the university’s graduation honor
Measured through the term before graduation. Through Spring 2030: a 3.5 on all UIUC work and a top-3-percent rank in your college’s graduating class; transfer students also need 25 or more UIUC hours. From Summer 2030: a 4.0 on UIUC work (transfer courses excluded) with at least 30 UIUC hours taken for a letter grade. Each college sets its own separate graduation honors. 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
A retaken course keeps both grades unless you file for grade replacement. An F in a 3-hour course, retaken for a B, and an A in another 3-hour course: (0 × 3 + 3.00 × 3 + 4.00 × 3) ÷ 9 = 2.33. With grade replacement (up to 4 courses, 10 hours), only the B would count and the GPA would be 3.50.
The calculator gives an estimate from the grades you enter. Your official GPA is the one on your UIUC 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.
