Algerian grading system
In Algeria, university grades run from 20.00 (best) to 0.00, and 10 is the lowest pass.
Example · Credit-weighted average of 3 courses
très bien (very good)
A pass. 10 is the lowest pass.
3 courses, 15 credits. Your institution’s own rules on rounding or cutting off decimals decide the grade on your record.
University grades: 0.00 to 20.00
Licence, master, state engineer (ingénieur d’État) and architect courses at Algerian universities and higher schools (the LMD system). Every subject, teaching unit and semester is marked out of 20; the words are the mentions the 2022 ministerial order gives a passed final dissertation or project.
| Grade | On the transcript | Meaning | Pass? |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18–20 | excellent | Pass | |
| 16–18 | très bien | very good | Pass |
| 14–16 | bien | good | Pass |
| 12–14 | assez bien | fairly good | Pass |
| 10–12 | passable | pass | Pass |
| 0–10 | fail (below 10 out of 20) | Fail |
Algerian grades and a US GPA
This page gives no US equivalents for Algerian grades: we found no table for them on Wikipedia or from an official source, and we do not make one up. A US university reads a foreign transcript itself or through the credential evaluation service it names, and its conversion is the one that counts.
Send your grades as they are, with the scale above. When a form asks for your average, give it on your own scale and say which scale it is: the converter’s average does exactly that, weighted by credits when you enter them.
What to know about grades in Algeria
- A teaching unit or a semester passes with an average of 10 out of 20, and a weak subject can be made up by stronger ones because subjects are averaged with their coefficients (compensation).
- Each semester has a normal exam session and a resit session (rattrapage), and the final mark of a resat subject averages the coursework with the better of the two exam marks.
- A licence takes 180 credits, 30 per semester, and a master at a university 120 credits.
- These rules apply to students who started in 2022/2023 or later; students who enrolled earlier stay under the 2011 orders 711 and 712.