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UT Austin’s GPA counts every UT Austin course with a letter grade: A is 4.00, A− 3.67, B+ 3.33 and so on down to F at 0.00. Courses marked I, Q, W, X, S, U or CR stay out of it.
Looking for the University of Tennessee, Knoxville? Its grade points and rules are on the UTK GPA calculator.
UT Austin’s points: A 4.00, A− 3.67, B+ 3.33, 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
Letter
Lowest %
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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 UT Austin’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.
UT Austin’s rules checked in its Undergraduate Catalog 2026–2027. Sources are at the bottom of the page.
Grade points at UT Austin
UT Austin 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 Texas at Austin letter grades and grade points
What W, pass/fail, incomplete, retakes and transfer credit do at UT Austin
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.
Every attempt counts: the first grade and each later one all stay in the GPA. Rule
Transfer credit
Grades from another college
Grades from other colleges are not part of the UT Austin GPA. Rule
UT Austin GPA lines
These are UT Austin’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 Austin
GPA line
What it means
Also required
Below 2.00
Academic warning
Measured on the cumulative UT Austin GPA at the end of each grade-reporting period. Full rule
At least 3.50 in one fall or spring semester
University Honors for that semester
Only courses taken in residence at UT Austin count. You also need at least 45 grade points that semester and no incomplete grades (symbol X). Full rule
At least 3.30
The lowest line for graduating with University honors
Only courses taken in residence count, and you need at least 60 semester hours at UT Austin. Each college sets its own line, which can be higher, and no more than the top 20 percent of a college’s May graduating class receive 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. 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. Had the B replaced the F, the GPA would be 3.50.
The calculator gives an estimate from the grades you enter. Your official GPA is the one on your UT Austin 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.
