Lebanese grading system
In Lebanon, school grades run from 20.00 (best) to 0.00, and 10 is the lowest pass. Grades at the American University of Beirut: A+ to F, lowest pass D.
Example · Credit-weighted average of 3 courses
Pass
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.
School grades: 0 to 20
Schools teaching the Lebanese or French curriculum, the Lebanese Baccalaureate and French-system universities in Lebanon.
| Grade | Meaning | Pass? |
|---|---|---|
| 10–20 | pass | Pass |
| 0–10 | fail | Fail |
Grades at the American University of Beirut: A+ to F
Undergraduate courses at the American University of Beirut (AUB) for students who entered from fall 2019–20. The GPA is capped at 4.0, so an A+ (4.3) cannot lift it higher.
| Grade | Meaning | Marks | Pass? |
|---|---|---|---|
| A+ | top grade | 93–100% | Pass |
| A | pass | 87–92% | Pass |
| A− | pass | 83–86% | Pass |
| B+ | pass | 79–82% | Pass |
| B | pass | 75–78% | Pass |
| B− | pass | 72–74% | Pass |
| C+ | pass | 69–71% | Pass |
| C | pass | 66–68% | Pass |
| C− | pass | 63–65% | Pass |
| D+ | pass | 61–62% | Pass |
| D | lowest pass | 60% | Pass |
| F | fail | below 60% | Fail |
Lebanese grades and a US GPA
This page gives no US equivalents for Lebanese 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 Lebanon
- Schools on the Lebanese or French programme grade out of 20 with 10 as the pass mark, though some schools pass students from as low as 7.
- Top marks are rare: in some schools 14 out of 20 is the highest essay mark, with class averages of 9 or 10.
- The general average (moyenne générale) weights each subject by its weekly hours.
- Universities differ: some use American letter grades, others a 0 to 100 scale with a pass mark of 60 or 70, and French-system universities the 0 to 20 scale.
- At AUB, students who entered before fall 2019–20 have numeric grades out of 100, and every student needs a cumulative GPA of at least 2.3 to graduate.
Sources: Wikipedia, Grading systems by country: Lebanon; American University of Beirut, Undergraduate Catalogue 2025–26: General University Academic Information; American University of Beirut, Department of Chemical Engineering: grades and letter grade conversion.