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GPAWorld covers 12 universities in United States. Between them they use 10 different grading scales, the most common being the 4.00 GPA scale at 3 of them. They also round the cumulative average in 4 different ways. That is why this site keeps one grading configuration per university instead of one per country — a single "United States GPA formula" would be wrong for most students who used it.
Supported universities
12
Across 10 different grading scales. Every listing links to a calculator preloaded with that university's own rules.
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Semester GPA
4.33
Updated CGPA
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GPA Credits
9
Rows
3
Enter your current CGPA and completed credits to calculate your updated CGPA. Your semester GPA is shown from your courses below.
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This is the clearest argument against using one national formula. Take a student who earns their university's second-best grade in four courses— identical academic performance, on paper — and run it through each institution's own rules:
Columbia College, Columbia University
Second-best grade: A (4 points)
4.00
Semester GPA
Duke University
Second-best grade: A (4 points)
4.000
Semester GPA
Same effort, same relative result, different number — because the scales, point values and rounding rules are set by each university rather than by United States. A calculator that ignores this gives most students the wrong figure.
Looking at the United States configurations side by side: 11 of the 12 use plus/minus grades while the rest award whole bands only, so an "A−" is a real grade at some and does not exist at others; repeated courses are handled 2 different ways across the group. Each university's own page spells out which of these apply to you.
| University | Scale | Top grade | Lowest pass | CGPA rounding | Repeats |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Columbia College, Columbia University | 4.33 undergraduate GPA scale | A+ (4.33) | D (1.0) | Rounded to 2 dp | Manual review |
| Duke University | 4.000 undergraduate GPA scale | A+ (4.0) | D- (1.0) | Truncated to 3 dp | Manual review |
| Harvard College | 4.00 Harvard College GPA scale | A (4.0) | D- (0.67) | Rounded to 2 dp | Manual review |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 5.0 GPA scale | A (5.0) | D (2.0) | Rounded to 1 dp | All attempts count |
| New York University College of Arts and Science | 4.000 GPA scale | A (4.0) | D (1.0) | Rounded to 3 dp | All attempts count |
| Princeton University | 4.00 GPA conversion scale | A+ (4.0) | D (1.0) | Rounded to 2 dp | Manual review |
| Stanford University | 4.30 GPA scale | A+ (4.3) | D- (0.7) | Rounded to 2 dp | Manual review |
| University of California, Berkeley | 4.00 GPA scale | A+ (4.0) | D- (0.7) | Rounded to 2 dp | Manual review |
| University of California, Los Angeles | 4.00 GPA scale | A+ (4.0) | D- (0.7) | Rounded to 2 dp | Manual review |
| University of Chicago | 4.00 College and graduate GPA scale | A+ (4.0) | D (1.0) | Rounded to 2 dp | Manual review |
| University of Pennsylvania | 4.00 undergraduate GPA scale | A+ (4.0) | D (1.0) | Rounded to 2 dp | Manual review |
| University of Southern California | 4.00 GPA scale | A (4.0) | D- (0.7) | Rounded to 2 dp | Manual review |
4.00 GPA scale
3 universities
University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Southern California
4.33 undergraduate GPA scale
1 university
Columbia College, Columbia University
4.000 undergraduate GPA scale
1 university
Duke University
4.00 Harvard College GPA scale
1 university
Harvard College
5.0 GPA scale
1 university
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4.000 GPA scale
1 university
New York University College of Arts and Science
4.00 GPA conversion scale
1 university
Princeton University
4.30 GPA scale
1 university
Stanford University
4.00 College and graduate GPA scale
1 university
University of Chicago
4.00 undergraduate GPA scale
1 university
University of Pennsylvania
No. The 12 United States universities covered here use 10 different grading scales between them, so the same grades can produce very different GPAs. Pick your university from the list on this page.
Open your university's page from the list above. Enter your current CGPA and completed credit hours, then add this semester's courses with their credit hours and grades. The grade options come from that university's own table, and the result is rounded using its own rule — so the number matches how your registrar calculates it.
No — this group alone uses 4 different rounding rules for the cumulative average: rounded to 1 dp, rounded to 2 dp, rounded to 3 dp, truncated to 3 dp. Truncating instead of rounding can be the difference between sitting just above or just below a scholarship threshold, so it is worth checking your own university's rule.
Because the point values differ. Four courses at the second-best grade give 4.00 at Columbia College, Columbia University (A = 4.0 points) but 4.000 at Duke University (A = 4.0 points). Identical performance, different numbers.
Quite possibly — coverage is being expanded steadily, and each university is only added once its grading policy has been read from an official source and encoded. Send us the university name and a link to its published grading scale and we will add it.
If you want to check the arithmetic by hand rather than trust a calculator, these walkthroughs cover the method that sits underneath every university page on this site.
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