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UT Knoxville’s GPA divides quality points by the hours attempted at UT Knoxville: A is 4.0, A− 3.7, B+ 3.3 and so on down to D− 0.7 and F 0, with no A+. W, S, NC, I, NR and N-prefix grades stay out of it, and a retake counts every attempt unless you use one of your three grade replacements.
Looking for the University of Texas at Austin? Its grade points and rules are on the UT Austin GPA calculator.
UTK’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
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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 UTK’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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UT Knoxville’s rules checked in its Undergraduate Catalog 2026–2027. Sources are at the bottom of the page.
Grade points at UT Knoxville
UT Knoxville 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 Tennessee, Knoxville letter grades and grade points
What W, pass/fail, incomplete, retakes and transfer credit do at UT Knoxville
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 UT Knoxville counts each code
Code
What it means
In the UT Knoxville GPA
W
Withdrew from a course between the 11th and 84th calendar day of classes, or from the university
Left out of the GPA. You can drop six individual classes until your first bachelor’s degree. Rule
S or NC
Satisfactory (C or better) or No Credit (C− or lower) in a course you took S/NC
Left out of the GPA, but kept on your record; you earn credit only with an S. A course you already have a letter grade in can’t be retaken S/NC. Rule
I
Incomplete
Left out of the GPA. If you don’t remove it within one calendar year, or by graduation, it becomes an F. Re-enrolling in the course doesn’t remove it. Rule
N prefix (NC−, ND+, ND, ND−, NF)
A C− or lower in a course graded only A, B, C or N
Left out of the cumulative GPA, though the hours stay in your attempted hours; it does count in an in-state student’s HOPE GPA. Rule
NR
Not Reported: a temporary grade while an academic misconduct case is resolved
Left out of the GPA until the grade is posted. Rule
Repeated course
You took the same course again
Normally every attempt counts in the GPA. You can replace up to three grades below C in 100 to 400 level courses, 13 hours at most, by retaking the course; then the highest grade counts in your cumulative GPA, while every grade stays on your academic history. A course can be taken three times at most, and a C or better can’t be retaken. For in-state students, only one replacement can raise the HOPE GPA. Rule
Transfer credit
Grades from another college
Only UT Knoxville work counts in the UTK GPA. College courses taken in high school through another college’s dual enrollment, and another institution’s study abroad, are transfer credit and stay out; UT Knoxville’s own dual enrollment courses count. Transfer grades can’t be replaced. Rule
UT Knoxville GPA lines
These are UT Knoxville’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 UT Knoxville
GPA line
What it means
Also required
Below 2.0 cumulative
Academic probation (also after two semesters in a row below 2.0)
On probation, a semester that ends with both the cumulative and the semester GPA below 2.0 brings dismissal; probation ends when both are 2.0 or higher. A 2.0 cumulative GPA is also the minimum to graduate. Full rule
3.5 or higher in a semester
Dean’s List: cum laude 3.5–3.69, magna cum laude 3.7–3.89, summa cum laude 3.9–4.0
At least 12 hours that semester, graduate courses included, not counting S/NC work. Full rule
3.5 or higher cumulative at graduation
Latin honors: cum laude 3.5–3.69, magna cum laude 3.7–3.89, summa cum laude 3.9–4.0
Your cumulative average, graduate coursework included, at the end of your graduation semester. 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 grade replacement can lift a GPA a long way. A 4-hour D in Calculus retaken for a B, plus a 3-hour A: with a replacement only the B counts, (3.0 × 4 + 4.0 × 3) ÷ 7 = 3.43; without one both attempts count, (1.0 × 4 + 3.0 × 4 + 4.0 × 3) ÷ 11 = 2.55.
The calculator gives an estimate from the grades you enter. Your official GPA is the one on your UT Knoxville 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.
