Grade to GPA converter

Convert per course, then average

Convert each course to grade points first, then average. Averaging your percentages and converting once at the end gives a different answer.

The reason is that the bands are wide and uneven. An 83 and an 86 both convert to 3.0, so the difference between them disappears the moment the letter is assigned. Any calculation that keeps the raw percentages until the end preserves detail your transcript has already discarded.

Once you have the points for each course, the college GPA calculator will weight them by credit hours for you.

Where the bands come from

There is no national standard. The ten-point scale, where 90 and above is an A, is the simplest. The plus and minus system splits each band into three, which is what most colleges now use and what the table here reflects.

Because instructors set their own cutoffs, a grade sitting on a boundary is worth checking against the syllabus. The gap between an 89 and a 90 is one percentage point and 0.4 grade points, which is one of the largest jumps on the scale.

International grades

Converting from another country’s system by percentage is unreliable. A 70 percent is a first-class result in the UK and a marginal pass in much of the US, and Indian and Chinese scales carry their own conventions again.

For anything official, universities require an evaluation from a credential service such as WES, ECE or SpanTran. Use a converter for a rough sense of where you stand, not for an application.