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OU grades in whole letters: each credit hour of A is worth 4 grade points, B 3, C 2, D 1 and F 0, and there are no plus or minus grades. Only an F counts as zero; W, AW, I, N, P, NP, S, U and AU carry no grade points and stay out of your GPA. Retake a course and, once the repeat policy is applied at your request, only your highest grade from up to four attempts counts, while every attempt stays on your transcript. The GPA OU uses for standing and graduation, the combined retention GPA, takes in your transfer grades as well as your OU grades.
Looking for Ohio University? Its grade points and rules are on the OHIO GPA calculator.
OU’s points: A 4.00, B 3.00, C 2.00, D 1.00 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”.
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Raise my GPA: what would it take to reach a target?
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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 OU’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.
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OU’s rules checked in its 2026–2027 General Catalog. Sources are at the bottom of the page.
Grade points at OU
OU 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.
The University of Oklahoma letter grades and grade points
What W, pass/fail, incomplete, retakes and transfer credit do at OU
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 OU counts each code
Code
What it means
In the OU GPA
F
Failure
Counts 0 grade points, and its credit hours count in your cumulative GPA, so it pulls your GPA down. You earn no credit hours for it. You also get an F if you withdraw from a course while failing it, and from the thirteenth week of a fall or spring semester your instructor gives a W or an F when you drop. Rule
D
The lowest grade for which credit is given
Worth 1 grade point per credit hour, and you earn the credit, but OU won’t confer a degree on work that’s all at D level. In the Gallogly College of Engineering you need at least a C in each course your curriculum requires, and you get no more than two unsuccessful attempts (D or lower) at a required course. Rule
P or NP
Pass or No Pass, in a course you chose to take pass/no pass
Neither counts in your GPA: the hours for a P are earned but left out of the average, and an NP earns no hours. Your instructor isn’t told you chose pass/no pass and turns in a letter grade; a C or better becomes a P, and a D or F becomes an NP. You can switch a course to or from pass/no pass through the end of the second week of a regular semester, or the first week of a summer session, with your college’s or advisor’s approval. Colleges may not count P/NP courses toward your degree, and the limits differ: Arts and Sciences allows no more than 16 hours, for free electives only; Price College of Business allows business majors 12 hours in free, non-business electives, one course a semester; P/NP counts toward no degree requirement in Engineering, Architecture, Earth and Energy, or Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences. If you plan on law or medical school, P/NP courses may hurt your chances where GPA matters most. Rule
S or U
Satisfactory or Unsatisfactory
Neither counts in your GPA. Colleges choose which courses are graded S/U; they must be noncompetitive, and the whole class is graded that way. For undergraduates an S means D-quality work or better (C or better for credit by advanced standing examination), and a U gives no credit. Rule
W
Withdrawal
Doesn’t count in your GPA. A course you drop in the first two weeks of a fall or spring semester leaves no grade. From the third through the twelfth week, a dropped course is recorded as a W, and your college requires your advisor’s approval. From the thirteenth week to the end of classes you must petition your college dean, and you get a W or an F. For fall 2026 full-semester courses, a drop gets an automatic W from Sept. 9 to Nov. 13, and you petition the dean from Nov. 14 to Dec. 18. The Registrar’s grading page also says a W is given when you’re passing and that withdrawing while failing brings an F. You can have only five W grades in your OU undergraduate career; after the fifth you can’t drop a course after the free add/drop period, unless you get an exception for extreme circumstances through the Academic Advising Resource Center. If you withdraw from all your courses, you get a W in each, and a complete withdrawal doesn’t count toward the five. Rule
AW
Administrative Withdrawal
Doesn’t count in your GPA. OU gives it when it withdraws you involuntarily after the add/drop period, for disciplinary or financial reasons or inadequate attendance. Rule
I
Incomplete
Not counted in your GPA. It isn’t a substitute for an F: you can’t be failing the course, and you should have finished a substantial part of the work. Your instructor files an Incomplete Contract Form saying what you must do and by when, and the limit can’t exceed one calendar year. If no grade change is submitted by the end of that year, the I becomes the permanent grade set in advance, and that grade counts like any other. The I stays on your transcript beside the final grade (for example, I/B). Rule
N
No final grade reported yet
A temporary grade shown when your instructor’s final grade wasn’t in at grade processing. It doesn’t count in your GPA, and it’s removed once the final grade is received. Rule
AU
Audit
Doesn’t count in your GPA, and you earn no credit. You need the instructor’s approval, and you pay full tuition and fees. As an undergraduate you can change from credit to audit only in the first two weeks of a semester (for fall 2026 full-semester courses, by Sept. 4). If you don’t meet the instructor’s requirements for auditors, you can get a W, and it counts toward your five. Rule
#, ^ or @
Repeat Policy Applied, Academic Reprieve or Academic Renewal
These marks after a grade show it has been forgiven under Academic Forgiveness: the grade stays on your transcript but leaves your retention GPA. A reprieve (^) removes one semester, or two in a row, and the credit can’t count toward your hours, though passed courses can show you know the subject. A renewal (@) removes all your coursework before a date OU sets, at least three years back, and none of it counts toward your degree. You can have only one reprieve or renewal at OU, and it can’t be undone. Rule
Repeated course
You took the same course again
Under OU’s repeat policy for undergraduates (in effect since January 1, 2025), you can repeat any course up to four times, and only the highest of the attempts counts in your GPA and total hours earned; the three lowest are forgiven. It’s the highest grade, not the latest: take a course four times for a D, an F, a B and a C, and only the B counts. Every attempt stays on your transcript, and a forgiven one is marked #. You must be a currently enrolled, degree-seeking student and request the repeat on the Academic Forgiveness form; it’s applied only after the final grade is in (or, for a course taken elsewhere, after the official transcript is loaded), and not after you graduate. The courses must be equivalent and within 1 credit hour of each other, so a 4-hour course retaken as a 2-hour course doesn’t qualify, and courses with variable credit or content are left out. A repeat isn’t applied to a W or to a neutral grade such as S, U, P, NP or AW. The Registrar says you may retake a course you’ve passed, but ask the Student Financial Center first, since federal aid rules on repeats are separate. Price College of Business says otherwise for its students: you may not repeat a course in which you earned an A or B, and outside the University repeat policy the last grade becomes the course grade while all attempts count in its GPAs. In Arts and Sciences, a course counts for credit only once unless it’s listed as repeatable for credit. Rule
Transfer credit
Grades from another college
Transfer grades count at OU. Your combined retention GPA, the one used for standing and graduation, covers all the work you’ve attempted, transfer and OU, minus courses forgiven under Academic Forgiveness; OU also keeps an OU-only GPA and a transfer GPA. A grade from another school enters your retention GPA when it’s recorded in Academic Records, and your standing is reviewed then, but never changed retroactively. Credit from schools accredited by the HLC or the Oklahoma State Regents transfers at face value; credit from other recognized accreditors is reviewed course by course and must be substantially equivalent to an OU course. Grades from foreign schools become neutral S or U grades once you’re admitted, unless the school is accredited by a US regional accreditor. Your college’s dean’s office decides how transfer credit applies to your degree. You need at least 60 hours from a senior (four-year) college, at least 30 hours at OU, and at least 15 of your final 30 hours (or half the hours in your major) at OU. Grades from any OU division, including OU-Tulsa and the Health Sciences Center, count as OU grades. Price College of Business takes no more than 60 hours from a two-year college and six transfer hours toward the major. Rule
OU GPA lines
These are OU’s published undergraduate lines, each with the other conditions its catalog sets. Your college or program may set its own, higher lines.
The retention GPA covers all your work, transfer and OU, minus courses repeated or reprieved under Academic Forgiveness, remedial courses and PE activity courses; the Registrar adds that remedial and PE activity courses are still counted in your attempted hours. Your standing is reviewed at the end of each fall, spring and summer term. The pages say “0–29” and “greater than 30” hours and don’t say which line applies at exactly 30. These are minimums; your college may set higher ones. Full rule
1.70–1.99 retention GPA with 0–29 hours attempted
Academic Notice
Only for students with fewer than 30 attempted hours. Below 1.70 in that range, you’re on probation instead. Full rule
Below 1.70 (under 30 hours) or below 2.00 (more than 30 hours)
Academic Probation
You’re on probation for one semester and must meet the minimum by its end. You can stay on probation if you earn at least a 2.00 GPA on that semester’s work. Ask your college dean’s office or Academic Records about enrollment rules while on probation. Full rule
Below the minimum and below 2.00 in the probation semester
Academic Suspension
You’re suspended for poor scholarship if, while on probation, you neither raise your cumulative retention GPA to the minimum nor earn a 2.00 on the probation term’s work (activity courses left out). You can’t be readmitted until one full semester has passed; then you need a new admission application and a letter of appeal. You can also appeal the suspension itself. After readmission, your college dean may set conditions for you to stay in the college. Full rule
2.00 OU and combined GPA (Arts and Sciences, Engineering); 2.50 (Business)
Good standing in your college
In Arts and Sciences, an OU or combined GPA below 2.00 puts you on an enrollment contract with a college hold until you’re back at 2.00. Engineering requires a 2.0 OU and combined GPA for good standing, and two semesters in a row below 2.0 (summer aside) can lead to dismissal from the college. Price College of Business requires a 2.50 OU retention and combined retention GPA. Full rule
3.50 semester GPA (3.00 in Engineering and Earth and Energy)
Dean’s Honor Roll
In most colleges you need to be full time with at least 12 letter-graded hours in a fall or spring semester; Arts and Sciences asks for 12 grade point hours and a 3.50. In the Gallogly College of Engineering and the Mewbourne College of Earth and Energy the line is 3.00, and part-time students there qualify with at least 6 but fewer than 12 hours and no W that semester. Engineering has no summer honor roll. Full rule
4.0 semester GPA
President’s Honor Roll
An A in every course, with the same hours rule as the Dean’s Honor Roll (in most colleges, full time with at least 12 letter-graded hours). Students on both lists are marked with an asterisk. This list’s rule comes from OU’s honor roll announcement; the catalog doesn’t describe it. Full rule
Fixed GPAs, in effect since spring 2024 for Norman campus programs. The GPA is your combined retention GPA with repeat, reprieve and renewal applied. You need at least 60 hours at OU and no disciplinary Academic Integrity action. Your final semester counts: honors are granted, adjusted or removed once all grades are posted. Honors College students who entered before fall 2024 use 3.40–3.59, 3.60–3.79 and 3.80–4.00. The Honors College page says Honors students need both an OU retention GPA and a combined retention GPA in the range, while the Graduation and Persistence Support page names only the combined retention GPA. Full rule
4.0 OU and combined retention GPA
4.0 Medallion
A 4.0 on all your OU work and on all transfer work, including concurrent or dual-credit courses taken in high school, with at least 60 hours at OU and no disciplinary Academic Integrity action. Full rule
2.00 combined retention/graduation GPA
Minimum GPA to graduate
On all coursework attempted, OU and transfer, leaving out courses repeated or reprieved under the State Regents’ policy and PE activity courses. Colleges may require more. Arts and Sciences also asks for a 2.00 on your OU work and in your major courses (combined and at OU); Price College of Business asks for 2.50 in the major, upper-division business and overall degree areas; Engineering asks for 2.00 OU and combined in degree-required courses. Full rule
2.50 retention GPA (transfers with fewer than 60 hours)
Transfer into Arts and Sciences or Engineering
Arts and Sciences admits transfer students with fewer than 60 hours at a 2.50; otherwise its line is a 2.00 combined retention GPA. Engineering asks for at least 24 non-remedial hours and a 2.50 retention GPA with fewer than 60 earned hours, or a 2.00 with more than 60. Full rule
2.00 GPA, no grade below C, in 12 or more hours since
Eligibility for an academic reprieve or renewal
After the semester you want reprieved or renewed, you must take at least 12 hours (activity and performance courses aside) and earn a 2.00 or higher with no grade below a C in all regularly graded work, at any accredited school. A renewal also needs at least three years between the last renewed semester and your request. If you ask for two semesters, OU may reprieve only one. Only current, degree-seeking students can request either. 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
At OU a retake you request under the repeat policy replaces the lower grade. Say you earn an F, an A and a B in three 3-hour courses and a C in a 4-hour lab science, and drop a fifth course in week five, so it shows a W: (0 × 3 + 4 × 3 + 3 × 3 + 2 × 4) ÷ 13 = 29 ÷ 13 ≈ 2.23, and the W doesn’t count. You retake the failed course and earn a B. Once the repeat policy is applied, only the higher grade counts and the F leaves your GPA: (3 × 3 + 4 × 3 + 3 × 3 + 2 × 4) ÷ 13 = 38 ÷ 13 ≈ 2.92. Without the repeat policy both attempts would count: (0 × 3 + 3 × 3 + 4 × 3 + 3 × 3 + 2 × 4) ÷ 16 = 38 ÷ 16 ≈ 2.38. The F stays on your transcript, marked #.
The calculator gives an estimate from the grades you enter. Your official GPA is the one on your OU 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.
