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Pitt’s GPA divides quality points by the credits that carry letter grades: A+ and A are both 4.00, A− 3.75, B+ 3.25 and so on down to F at 0.00. Grades of W, R, N, S, H, U and NC, unresolved incompletes and credits transferred from other schools stay out of it.
Pitt’s points: A+ 4.00, A 4.00, A− 3.75, B+ 3.25 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.
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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 Pitt’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.
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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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Pitt’s rules checked in its Undergraduate Catalog 2026–2027. Sources are at the bottom of the page.
Grade points at Pitt
Pitt 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 Pittsburgh letter grades and grade points
What W, pass/fail, incomplete, retakes and transfer credit do at Pitt
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 Pitt counts each code
Code
What it means
In the Pitt GPA
W
Withdrew from the course after the add/drop period
Satisfactory (C or better) or no credit, under the S/NC option
Left out of the GPA. S counts toward graduation; NC earns no credit. Rule
H, S or U
Honors (A− or better), satisfactory (C to B+) or unsatisfactory, under the H/S/U option
Left out of the GPA. H and S count toward graduation; U does not. Rule
I
Incomplete. The instructor also files a lapse grade based on the work done so far.
Not a letter grade, so it adds no quality points. If the work isn’t finished by the deadline (at most one year after the term), it turns into the lapse grade. Rule
N
Audit
Counts toward neither graduation nor the GPA. Rule
Repeated course
You took the same course again
The newest grade replaces the earlier one in the GPA (both stay on the transcript), but only if the new grade is one that counts: a W, R, N or NC on the retake leaves the old grade in, and so does an I until it is resolved. You can repeat a course at most twice (three attempts in all), and a retake at another school never replaces a Pitt grade. Rule
Transfer credit
Grades from another college
Credits from other schools come in as advanced standing (T) credits and are not part of the Pitt GPA, which uses only Pitt courses. Rule
Pitt GPA lines
These are Pitt’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 Pitt
GPA line
What it means
Also required
Below 2.0 for one term
Academic Review, a warning that still counts as good standing
Having more than one unresolved incomplete, or missing a specific program requirement, also triggers Academic Review. Full rule
Cumulative GPA below 2.0
Academic Notice (not in good academic standing)
Applies after you have already had one Academic Review. Only courses taken for a letter grade count. To return to good standing you need a cumulative GPA above 2.0, and good standing also expects a term GPA of 2.0 or more each term. Full rule
3.25 (Engineering) to 3.50 (most schools) in a term
Dean’s List, depending on the school
Each school sets its own rules, and not every school has a Dean’s List. Arts and Sciences needs at least 12 letter-grade credits that term (S/NC courses don’t count) and no grade below C. Engineering needs a 3.25 term and cumulative GPA, at least 30 letter-graded Pitt credits in all and 6 that term. Health and Rehabilitation Sciences needs 3.50, full-time status and a 3.00 cumulative Pitt GPA. Full rule
3.25, 3.50 or 3.75 at graduation
Cum laude, magna cum laude or summa cum laude (University Honors)
You need at least 60 letter-graded credits at Pitt. Schools may also award separate program honors based on the GPA in the major and other rules. 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 retake replaces the earlier grade. An F in a 3-credit course, retaken for a B, and an A in another 3-credit course: the F drops out, so (3.00 × 3 + 4.00 × 3) ÷ 6 = 3.50. Counting both attempts would have given 2.33.
The calculator gives an estimate from the grades you enter. Your official GPA is the one on your Pitt 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.
