UGA GPA Calculator

UGA’s grading scale: no A+, D+ or D-

The University of Georgia’s 4.0 scale has plus and minus steps, but they stop at both ends. There’s no A+, so a plain A at 4.00 is as high as a grade goes, and below a C- there’s only a D and an F. The UGA GPA scale below comes from UGA’s grading policy (01.04.020), which sets the grade points each letter earns per credit hour:

The C- line trips people up. It passes the course and adds 1.70 grade points per hour to your GPA, but a major or prerequisite that asks for a C (2.0) or better won’t accept it.

Marks that stay out of your UGA GPA

Any symbol that isn’t a letter grade carries no grade points, and its hours stay out of the GPA. Some of them still matter elsewhere, mostly for HOPE.

Is there a UGA grading scale in percentages?

No. UGA’s grading policy assigns grade points to letters and stops there. Whether an 89.5 is an A- or a B+ depends on the cut-offs in your course syllabus, so two classes can turn the same percentage into different letters. Once the letter is on your record, the table above decides what it’s worth.

How UGA calculates your GPA

Your grade point average (GPA) is the grade points you earned divided by the credit hours you attempted for a letter grade. Each course adds its hours times its grade points, and the total is divided by the hours of every letter-graded course you took. Hours with an S, U, W, I, V, K, NR, NG or WM stay out of both totals.

Most calculators skip the last step of the GPA calculation: UGA truncates every GPA to two decimal points. The digits after the second decimal are dropped, not rounded.

A worked example: why 3.4785 is a 3.47

The calculator above opens with this fall semester filled in:

48.7 ÷ 14 = 3.4785…, which UGA records as a 3.47. Rounding would have given 3.48. Neither reaches the 3.50 the Dean’s List needs, but the difference decides cases right at a line. A 3.4999 is a 3.49 at UGA, and a 1.999 is a 1.99, under the 2.00 for good standing.

The same student came in with a 3.21 GPA on 45 GPA hours, which is about 144.45 grade points. Add the semester’s 48.7 and divide by 59 hours: 193.15 ÷ 59 = 3.2737…, so the cumulative GPA is a 3.27. If you enter the exact grade points from your transcript instead of the GPA, the result is exact too.

Using the UGA GPA calculator

1. Enter this term’s courses. Give each one its hours and grade. Marks such as W, S or I are in the “Not counted in the GPA” part of the grade menu. Set STEM (HOPE) to STEM only for a course on Georgia’s approved STEM list.
2. Add your record so far (optional). Type your UGA GPA so far and your GPA hours so far, or your grade points so far for an exact cumulative. Add your transfer GPA hours and transfer GPA to see your overall GPA, and your HOPE GPA so far and HOPE attempted hours for the HOPE estimate.
3. Set the term and your standing. Choose “Fall or spring” or “Summer” under “Term (for honors and standing)”, and the standing you start the term in under “Your standing now”.
4. Read the results. They update automatically as you type. The four boxes show your term, UGA cumulative, overall and HOPE GPAs. Under them come your standing, the Presidential Scholar and Dean’s List checks, Latin honors and the HOPE checkpoint. “What each course adds” lists the grade points from every course.
5. Plan the next term. Enter a target GPA (the UGA cumulative GPA you want) and your hours next term to see the term GPA it takes.

Cumulative vs overall GPA at UGA

UGA keeps two running GPAs, and they’re used for different decisions. Your cumulative GPA counts only courses taken in UGA residence. Your overall GPA adds every college-level course you took somewhere else, before or after you enrolled. HOPE uses neither of them: Georgia works out its own GPA from every course you attempted.

That’s why a strong transfer record can lift your Latin honors without changing your standing, and why AP or IB credit (a K on your record) shows up in neither GPA.

Repeating a course: UGA has no grade replacement

A retake doesn’t wipe out the first grade. Under UGA’s repeat policy (01.04.024), the grade from every attempt goes into your UGA cumulative GPA, if it’s UGA credit, and into your overall GPA. You get the credit hours once, the highest grade is the one that satisfies degree requirements, and every attempt stays on your transcript marked as repeated.

In numbers: a D in a 3-hour course followed by a B gives 3 + 9 = 12 grade points on 6 hours. The course averages a 2.00 in your GPA, not the 3.00 a replacement policy would give. The calculator works the same way, so a retake goes in as one more row with its new grade.

Academic Renewal: the one fresh start

The only way to start your GPA over is Academic Renewal (policy 01.08.003), and it’s narrow:

• It’s for students who left UGA after academic trouble (probation or dismissal). You must have been away for five years, and it’s granted once in the University System of Georgia.
• You apply when you re-enroll, or within three semesters or one calendar year.
• A new Renewal GPA starts with your next courses and is used for academic standing and graduation.
• Earlier courses with a C- or better keep their credit but don’t enter the Renewal GPA; a D or F course has to be repeated if your degree requires it.
• For graduation honors, at least half of your degree work has to come after the renewal.
• Financial aid progress rules and program admission GPAs that use all coursework, such as teacher education and nursing, still see every grade.

Dean’s List and Presidential Scholar requirements

UGA names both lists for each school or college at the end of every semester, under policy 01.09.011. They’re separate: a 4.00 makes you a Presidential Scholar, and the Dean’s List is for everyone else at 3.50 or above.

“No grade below a B” means a B (3.0) is the floor, so a single B- keeps you off the list even with a 3.80 semester. S hours count as earned hours, and W hours don’t. Students approved for a Reduced Full Course Load through the Disability Resource Center are eligible once they complete that approved load. The calculator checks the GPA, the blocking grades and the hours, but it can’t see course numbers, so count only courses numbered 1000 or higher.

Latin honors at UGA: cum laude, magna and summa

Graduation honors use your overall GPA on all college-level work you attempted, which includes transfer work taken before or after you enrolled at UGA.

These lines changed in fall 2018. Before that, magna cum laude started at 3.70 and cum laude at 3.50, and the old table still turns up online. A 3.55 earned cum laude under the old rules and earns nothing today.

A graduate with a 4.0 overall GPA is also named a First Honor Graduate and wears a braided cord, a fourragère, on the left shoulder at commencement.

Academic standing at UGA: warning, probation and suspension

Since fall 2022, UGA’s Connect & Complete policy (01.08.004) sets your standing from your UGA cumulative GPA at the end of each term. Good standing means a cumulative GPA of 2.00 or higher. What happens below 2.00 depends on where you started the term:

Reaching a 2.00 cumulative GPA returns you to good standing from any of these. A few details decide close cases:

• W, V, I, S, U and NG grades don’t count toward the 6 hours, so the hours you need are letter-graded ones.
• Transfer credits aren’t in the UGA cumulative GPA, so they can’t lift you off probation.
• If you withdraw from every course, you aren’t given a new standing for that term.
• After a suspension, your school or college has to readmit you, and you return on probation. After a dismissal, you can return only through an appeal to the University Educational Affairs Committee.
• Schools and colleges can keep higher standards. Students enrolled in summer 2022 or earlier stay under the old rules, which asked for a 2.30 term average to continue on probation.

Your HOPE and Zell Miller GPA is a different number

The Georgia Student Finance Commission works out its own GPA for the HOPE and Zell Miller Scholarships, and it often differs from your UGA GPA. UGA’s financial aid office puts it plainly: UGA grades on a plus and minus scale, but the plusses and minuses don’t count for HOPE. An A or A- is 4.0, any B is 3.0, any C is 2.0, a D is 1.0 and an F is 0.

Since fall 2017, approved STEM courses get an extra 0.5 on a B, C or D, so a B in one of them counts 3.5, a C 2.5 and a D 1.5. An A stays at 4.0. The approved courses are listed in the STEM Weighted Course Directory on GAfutures. Like UGA, the Commission cuts the GPA to the hundredth instead of rounding it.

The example semester above shows the gap. Its UGA term GPA is 3.47. For HOPE, both A- grades count as 4.0, the B+ drops to 3.0, and the B in Calculus I counts as 3.5 if the course is on the STEM list. That’s 51 quality points on 14 hours, or 3.64. Added to a 3.10 HOPE GPA on 45 attempted hours, it comes to about 3.22.

What counts in your HOPE attempted hours

Attempted hours decide when your GPA is checked, and they cover more than the courses you completed:

• every course you attempted after high school graduation, at UGA or any other college, including out-of-state and foreign schools and courses UGA didn’t accept;
• courses you withdrew from, and every repeat of a course;
• hours HOPE or Zell Miller didn’t pay for;
• incompletes and other missing grades, which count as attempted hours but stay out of the GPA until a grade arrives.

AP, IB and dual enrollment courses taken in high school don’t count, and neither do credit by exam, continuing education or learning support courses after fall 2011.

Checkpoints and limits

You need a 3.00 HOPE GPA to keep HOPE and a 3.30 to keep Zell Miller. The Commission checks it at 30, 60 and 90 attempted hours and at the end of every spring term. You can lose the scholarship at a spring checkpoint but only regain it at 30, 60 or 90 hours, and after losing it at two checkpoints you can’t get it back. Payments stop at 127 attempted or paid hours. Your official HOPE GPA and hours are on GAfutures under “My College HOPE Profile”.

How UGA Admissions recalculates your high school GPA

If you’re applying to UGA as a first-year student, the GPA on your high school transcript isn’t the one Admissions uses. Schools weight grades so differently that UGA recalculates a GPA for every applicant from five core areas: math, science, English, social science and foreign language. AP Art and AP Music Theory count too.

• Each grade goes on a standard 4.0 scale using your own school’s grading scale for the year you took the course.
• Each AP or IB grade gets one extra letter grade, so an A in an AP course counts 5, unless your school already added weight to that grade.
• Honors and dual enrollment grades get no extra weight. UGA does count how many of those courses you took when it looks at the rigor of your schedule.

Count your core grades by letter below and the calculator does the rest.

A worked example

The admissions calculator opens with 36 core grades: 24 A, 9 B and 3 C, six of them in AP or IB courses. That’s 96 + 27 + 6 = 129 points from the letters and 6 more for the AP and IB grades. 135 ÷ 36 = 3.75, against a 3.58 without the extra points.

Self-reported grades on your application

The application asks you to list every core course from 9th to 11th grade, and any 12th-grade course you’ve finished, copying each grade the way your transcript shows it. Where both weighted and unweighted grades appear, use the unweighted one. A B+ or a B- goes in as a plain B, and a numerical grade is converted with your school’s own scale.

Pass, satisfactory and withdrawn courses stay off the list. You also report how many AP, IB, AICE and dual enrollment courses you took; honors courses don’t go in that count.

GPAs of admitted first-year students

No GPA guarantees admission. UGA sets no fixed GPA or test-score cut-off, and in recent years its admitted students earned A-level grades in more than 90% of their core courses. For the admitted first-year Class of 2030, the middle 50% had a core GPA of 4.13 to 4.40, so a quarter of the admitted students were below 4.13. Those figures go past 4.0 because of the extra point on AP and IB grades. Honors College admits ran 4.35 to 4.52.

Transfer applicants: the calculated transfer GPA

Transfer applicants get their own GPA from UGA Admissions. It uses every academic grade in a transferable course from every college you attended, including D, F and WF grades, and both grades when you repeated a course. Only courses listed with a title, course number and credit hours are reviewed.

To be considered for the Athens campus, you need to have finished high school at least 12 months before you enroll and one year of college by the start of your first term, plus either:

• 30 to 59 transferable hours and a calculated transfer GPA of 3.30 or higher, or
• 60 or more transferable hours and a 3.00 or higher.

The Griffin and Tifton campuses ask for 60 or more hours and a 3.00. These are minimums for consideration, not a promise of admission, and they can change from term to term with space.

Other UGA GPA lines worth knowing

You need a cumulative GPA of at least 2.00 to graduate, and UGA won’t approve graduation while you hold an I that could pull your GPA below that line once it’s graded.

The Morehead Honors College takes current students through one door, first-semester entry. You can apply in your first UGA semester as a first-year student. You need at least 14 hours of A-F graded courses that term and an expected cumulative UGA GPA of at least 3.8 by its end. AP, summer and dual enrollment credit doesn’t count toward the 14 hours, and transfer students can’t use this route.

For spring 2026, more than 900 students applied for about 250 seats, and the incoming class had an average cumulative UGA GPA of 3.98.

Applying to medical school? AMCAS, the application service for MD programs, works out a separate BCPM GPA from your biology, chemistry, physics and math courses. It sorts each course by what it covers, not by the department that teaches it, and it counts every attempt at a repeated course, even grades your school leaves out of its own GPA. Academic Renewal doesn’t hide earlier grades from AMCAS.

UGA’s Pre-Professional Advising Office keeps a BCPM/science GPA calculator and the course lists each health application service uses. Enter only your biology, chemistry, physics and math courses above for a rough figure.

How this UGA GPA calculator works

This UGA GPA calculator uses UGA’s grade values and the rules in its Policy Library and Registrar pages: the excluded marks, cumulative and overall GPAs, repeats, academic standing, the Presidential Scholar and Dean’s List designations and graduation honors. Those are the undergraduate rules; graduate and law students have different ones, covered in the FAQ below.

It works out each GPA from your exact grade points and hours and only then cuts it at two decimals. The HOPE estimate follows the Georgia Student Finance Commission’s 2026–2027 rules for public colleges.

There are a few things it can’t know. It doesn’t see course numbers, so it can’t confirm the 1000-level rule for the honor lists, and it can’t tell which of your courses are on the STEM list.

Your HOPE GPA so far is weighted by the attempted hours you enter, so earlier W or I hours make that estimate a little less exact. Standing follows the university-wide rules; your school or college may be stricter, and the pre-fall-2022 rules and Academic Renewal aren’t built in.

Everything runs in your browser and the page stores nothing you enter. Calculate Your Grade isn’t connected with the University of Georgia, so Athena, your college and GAfutures have the final word.

Sources

• UGA Policy Library: Grades (01.04.020), Repeating a Course (01.04.024), Academic Renewal (01.08.003), Academic Standing (01.08.004) and Presidential Scholar and Dean’s List (01.09.011)
• Office of the Registrar: its Grades page, for the grade values, the excluded marks, the cumulative and overall GPAs and truncation, and its Academic Standing and Graduation pages
• Office of Instruction: Connect & Complete
• Graduate School: Cumulative Grade Point Average Requirement; School of Law: Grade/Ranking Distribution
• Office of Student Financial Aid: HOPE and Zell Miller Scholarships
• Georgia Student Finance Commission: 2026–2027 HOPE Scholarship Program at Public Institutions
• UGA Admissions: First-Year Criteria, Self-Reported Grades, Transfer Criteria and Admissions Statistics & Resources
• Morehead Honors College: Current UGA Student Applicants
• AAMC, AMCAS Applicant Guide: Course Classification Guide and Special Course Types

Built and maintained by Mahmudul, the creator of Calculate Your Grade. Rules checked in October 2026 against UGA’s Policy Library and its Registrar, Admissions, Graduate School and Law School pages, GSFC’s 2026–2027 HOPE regulations and AAMC’s AMCAS guide.

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