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UofSC GPA calculator

UofSC grades on a 4.0 scale with half-point pluses and no minuses: A is 4, B+ 3.5, B 3, C+ 2.5, C 2, D+ 1.5, D 1 and F 0. A retake counts both grades unless you use Grade Forgiveness, which drops a first-attempt D+, D, F or WF in at most two courses (8 credits). A WF counts as an F, but a pass-fail course never touches your GPA, even when you fail it with a U.

Looking for the University of Southern California? Its grade points and rules are on the USC GPA calculator.

UofSC’s points: A 4.00, B+ 3.50, B 3.00, C+ 2.50 and so on.

Example courses. Change them to yours, or

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 UofSC’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.

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.

UofSC’s rules checked in its 2026–2027 Academic Bulletin. Sources are at the bottom of the page.

Grade points at UofSC

UofSC 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 South Carolina letter grades and grade points
GradeGrade points
A4.00
B+3.50
B3.00
C+2.50
C2.00
D+1.50
D1.00
F0.00
WF0.00, counted in the GPA
FN0.00, counted in the GPA

From University of South Carolina, 2026–2027 Academic Bulletin, Undergraduate Academic Regulations.

What W, pass/fail, incomplete, retakes and transfer credit do at UofSC

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 UofSC counts each code
CodeWhat it meansIn the UofSC GPA
WWithdrawn without penalty: you withdrew after Free Drop/Add (at least the first 6% of the course’s part of term) and by the end of the Withdrawal Period (at least 72%)Left out of your GPA, earned hours and graded hours, though it counts toward your attempted hours and stays on your record. A course you drop during Free Drop/Add leaves no record at all. An approved Hardship Withdrawal puts a W on every course that semester; withdrawing from only some courses for hardship is allowed only in exceptional circumstances. Rule
WFWithdrawn with penalty: you withdrew after the Withdrawal Period, through the last day of classCounts as an F: 0 points, with its hours in your GPA and in your academic standing. A WF from your first attempt can be removed with Grade Forgiveness. Rule
FNFailure for non-attendance: you never attended or stopped attending without dropping or withdrawingShown and calculated as an F, so it counts as 0 in your GPA. In a pass-fail course the same situation gives a UN, which counts as a U and stays out of your GPA. Rule
S or USatisfactory or Unsatisfactory: the pass-fail grades (S for a passing grade, U for a failing one), also used in some research courses, workshops and seminarsNeither counts in your GPA or in suspension decisions; an S earns credit. You can take pass-fail only in free electives, eight courses at most, with your dean’s and advisor’s permission on the Pass-Fail Option form, and only if your semester and cumulative GPAs are both at least 2.00. Choose or cancel it by the last day to withdraw without penalty. Pass-fail hours don’t count toward the 12 hours for the Dean’s or President’s Honor List. Rule
IIncomplete: your instructor’s choice when an unanticipated illness, accident, work responsibility, family hardship or verified learning disability kept you from finishing part of the workLeft out of your GPA. You have up to 12 months, by arrangement with your instructor, to finish; re-enrolling in the course doesn’t make it up. After 12 months the I becomes an F, or the in-progress grade your instructor put on the Incomplete Grade Contract. Rule
NRNo Record: your grade wasn’t available when final grades were dueIgnored in your GPA while it stands, but it’s temporary: if no grade replaces it before the last week of the next fall or spring semester, it becomes an F. Rule
AUDAudit: you attend without responsibility for assignments or examsNo credit and no effect on your GPA. It shows on your transcript only if you attend 75 percent of the classes. Switch between audit and credit by the last day to drop without a W. Rule
Repeated courseYou took the same course againA retake doesn’t replace your first grade on its own: both grades count in your GPA, and you get credit only once. Grade Forgiveness is the exception. If you earned a D+, D, F or WF on your first attempt, you can retake the identical (or cross-listed) course once, at Columbia or a Palmetto College campus, and only the second grade counts in your cumulative GPA, as long as it’s a regular letter grade from A to F or a WF; a W, I, S, U, UN or audit can’t replace it. Both courses should carry the same hours. You get it for two courses in all, up to 8 credits. Request it on the Grade Forgiveness Request form once the second grade posts, at any time before your first USC bachelor’s degree; it can’t be undone. Only the second attempt can forgive: a third attempt doesn’t. Courses from other schools or from USC Aiken, Beaufort or Upstate don’t qualify, nor do grades with an honor code sanction, and students granted academic forgiveness can’t use it. Past honor lists, academic standing and program GPAs don’t change, and other schools you apply to will likely count both grades. Many programs limit how often you can repeat a course. Rule
Transfer creditGrades from another collegeGrades from other schools never enter your UofSC GPA: since Summer 2017, transfer grade points and GPAs don’t appear on your USC record, and your official transcript shows only the transfer hours earned. A transfer course with a grade below 2.0 (C) doesn’t count toward your degree, and neither does one you took while suspended or, as a USC student, without approval in advance. With your dean’s permission you can take up to 18 hours elsewhere as a transient student if your USC GPA is at least 2.00. Credit by examination at USC needs a B or better and is recorded as hours only, with no grade. Rule

UofSC GPA lines

These are UofSC’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 UofSC
GPA lineWhat it meansAlso required
Below 2.00 Total Institutional GPA at the end of any semesterAcademic probationYour record is reviewed at the end of each fall and spring semester, using the Total Institutional GPA and GPA hours. You’re off probation once your Total Institutional GPA is 2.00 or above. If you’re below 2.00 after your first semester at USC (new or transfer), you must attend an academic coaching session in the first six weeks of your second semester before you can register for the third. Full rule
1.500 Total Institutional GPA with 12–35 GPA hours; 1.800 with 36–71The minimum to stay on probation and avoid suspensionWith 72 or more GPA hours, there’s no such floor: you avoid suspension only with a semester reprieve or a college petition. Miss the line and your first suspension lasts one fall or spring semester plus the adjoining summer (about eight months); you can appeal to your college’s petitions committee. A second suspension is indefinite, and readmission within two years is unlikely. Full rule
2.50 term GPASemester reprieve: you stay on probation and avoid suspension, whatever your Total Institutional GPAAfter a first suspension, you need a 2.50 term GPA every semester until your Total Institutional GPA climbs above the suspension line for your hours. Full rule
2.00 cumulative GPAMinimum to graduateOn all work attempted at USC, and you must be in good academic standing and meet your program’s requirements. Full rule
2.00 semester and cumulative GPANeeded to take a course pass-failBoth GPAs must be at least 2.00. A 2.00 USC GPA is also required to take courses elsewhere as a transient student. Full rule
3.50 semester GPADean’s Honor ListOn at least 12 credited hours; pass-fail, exam, correspondence and exemption hours don’t count toward the 12. Honors are calculated after the semester ends, so an incomplete made up later may not count. Full rule
4.00 semester GPAPresident’s Honor ListOn at least 12 credited hours, under the same rules as the Dean’s Honor List; you appear only on the President’s list. Full rule
3.50 cumulative GPAGraduation with honors: cum laude 3.50–3.749, magna cum laude 3.75–3.949, summa cum laude 3.95–4.00Based on your Total Institutional GPA at graduation, with at least 60 credit hours toward the degree earned in residence at USC. Honors aren’t applied retroactively, and students granted academic forgiveness can’t receive them. Full rule
2.00 cumulative GPA after readmissionAcademic forgiveness for former students who left below 2.00You must have been away from every USC campus for at least 48 months, been readmitted, completed at least 24 graded hours since, met your program’s progression requirements and never received academic forgiveness before. Your GPA is then recalculated with a 2.00 on all hours before readmission. 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

Grade Forgiveness can only use your second attempt, and it can only forgive your first. Say you fail a 3-credit course, retake it for a D+, then take it a third time for a B. Forgiveness drops the F, but the D+ can’t be forgiven, so it counts with the B: (1.5 × 3 + 3.0 × 3) ÷ 6 = 2.25. Without forgiveness all three count: (0 × 3 + 1.5 × 3 + 3.0 × 3) ÷ 9 = 1.50.

The calculator gives an estimate from the grades you enter. Your official GPA is the one on your UofSC academic record.

Sources: University of South Carolina, 2026–2027 Academic Bulletin, Undergraduate Academic Regulations; University of South Carolina, Office of the University Registrar, Grade Forgiveness; University of South Carolina, Office of the University Registrar, Grade Point Scale; University of South Carolina, Office of the University Registrar, Honor Lists; University of South Carolina, Office of the University Registrar, Graduation with Honors.