Mizzou GPA Calculator

Mizzou grade points: A+ and A both earn 4.00

Mizzou’s GPA scale is a 4.0 scale where a plus or minus moves most grades by 0.3, so an A- is worth 3.7 and a B+ 3.3. Many other schools use thirds and give an A- 3.67.

The exception is the top of the scale: an A+ earns 4.00, the same as an A, so no GPA at Mizzou can go above 4.00. The 2026–27 catalog and the Faculty Handbook list the same values.

The percentage column shows the grading scale the Faculty Handbook describes as commonly used at MU, and instructors don’t have to use it. From Fall 2026, every instructor has to give the course’s grading scale in the syllabus and use the same scale in Canvas. Check your syllabus to see what a 92 means in your class.

S, U, H, W, NR and I carry no grade points

None of these six marks adds quality points or GPA hours, so they can’t move your GPA up or down.

• S and U come from satisfactory/unsatisfactory grading. An S means a C- or better and earns the credit; a U earns none.
• W is a withdrawal. Dropping a course through the fifth week of the semester (the 25th class day) has no effect on your GPA. After that, leaving a course gives you a W, which doesn’t affect the GPA either.
• H is an audit, which earns no credit and no grade points. Under a 2026 revision, degree-seeking students can audit a course only by exception, with the instructor’s written permission.
• I is an Incomplete, agreed with your instructor in a contract. If the work isn’t finished by the end of the completion semester, the I turns into the alternative grade written into that contract, and that grade does count.
• NR means not reported, recorded when a grade is missing from the grade roster. For undergraduates, an NR becomes an F after 12 months, which can pull a GPA under the 2.00 needed to graduate.

S/U has limits. You can take one course S/U a semester, not counting S/U-only courses, and you have to choose it by the last day to drop without a grade. First-semester freshmen and students on scholastic probation can’t use it. S grades can cover at most 20 percent of a bachelor’s degree, and some required courses can’t be taken S/U.

All six are in the calculator’s grade menu, marked “no GPA”, so a course can stay on your list without changing the result.

Working out a Mizzou GPA by hand

A Mizzou GPA is your quality points divided by the credit hours you took for a letter grade. A course’s quality points are its grade value multiplied by its credit hours, so a 3-hour B+ earns 3.3 × 3 = 9.9.

GPA = total quality points ÷ total GPA hours

1. Multiply each course’s credit hours by its grade points.
2. Add the quality points together, and separately add the hours of every course graded A+ to F.
3. Divide the points by the hours.

The calculator opens with this semester: five courses and 17 credit hours, each with its hours from the 2026–27 catalog.

That’s 60.60 quality points over 17 GPA hours, or 3.5647. The calculator cuts that to a 3.564 term GPA rather than rounding it up to 3.565.

Adding the semester to your cumulative GPA

Your cumulative GPA uses the same formula on every grade so far. Add the term’s points and hours to the totals already on your record. A 3.100 GPA on 30 hours is 93.0 quality points, so after this semester your cumulative GPA is 153.6 ÷ 47 = 3.268.

The calculator shows 3.422 instead. Its CHEM 1400 row is a retake of an earlier D, and a GPA adjustment takes that D out of the record.

Why the Mizzou GPA calculator shows three decimals

The catalog and the Registrar don’t give a rounding rule for the GPA itself. Mizzou’s honors lines are written to three decimals, though, and for Latin honors the College of Arts and Science says plainly that it doesn’t round up. A 3.5996 is not a 3.600.

So the calculator keeps three decimals and drops the rest. No result reaches a line by rounding, and a 3.599 on the screen means you’re under 3.600.

One GPA across four UM System campuses

Since Spring 2011, every undergraduate has a single cumulative GPA, the University of Missouri GPA, which is also the GPA of record on your official transcript. It counts every grade, credit and quality point you attempted at any of the four University of Missouri System universities: Mizzou in Columbia, UMKC, UMSL and Missouri S&T.

Grades from another UM campus come with their grade points, D and F grades included. They’re counted at Mizzou’s own grade values, so they move your cumulative GPA the same way Mizzou courses do. The GPA adjustment applies across campuses too: a retake at Mizzou can replace the grade from an equivalent course you took at another UM campus.

The official transcript prints the GPA of record with each term GPA, and it’s the GPA behind your standing, graduation and Latin honors. Type it into the calculator’s “UM GPA so far” field. Schools and colleges can also work out GPAs for their own purposes, such as a GPA in your major, so ask your dean’s office how yours does it.

GPA adjustment: retaking a C-, D or F

Mizzou’s version of grade replacement is the GPA adjustment, and it isn’t automatic. Retaking a course doesn’t change your GPA on its own. Both grades count until you send the Office of the University Registrar a GPA adjustment request after finishing the second attempt. The adjustment follows these rules:

• Only a first grade of C-, D+, D, D- or F can be replaced. A C or better can’t, because the policy treats it as acceptable work.
• The retake has to be graded A to F. You can’t repeat a course S/U.
• The highest grade from any attempt of an equivalent UM System course is the one used, and only one earlier attempt can be replaced, however many times you take the course.
• A retake that ends in an I or a W replaces nothing, because there’s no final grade to use.
• Courses marked “repeat for credit” aren’t eligible, and neither is a course you retake for graduate credit.
• If a course’s number, prefix or credits changed after your first attempt, the department checks that the new course is substantially the same. A cross-listed course counts when you retake it under the other department’s listing.
• Every attempt stays on your transcript, with a note that explains the GPA calculation.
• You can’t use the adjustment after you graduate, and that includes a second bachelor’s degree.

Before you retake a course, Mizzou strongly encourages you to see an academic advisor and a financial aid advisor. A repeat can affect your financial aid, athletics eligibility or immigration status, among other things.

The 18-hour limit (it was 15 until 2026)

No more than 18 credit hours can be dropped from your GPA this way. The limit was 15 hours until Faculty Council revised the policy on May 14, 2026, effective Fall 2026. The same revision let the highest grade count, opened the adjustment to equivalent courses from any UM System campus and set when a retake can change your standing.

The 2026–27 catalog’s Course Repeat Policy page still says 15 hours, but the Faculty Handbook and the Registrar’s Course Repeat page give the current 18. As you mark retakes, the calculator counts toward 18. If you’ve had courses adjusted before, enter those hours in “Hours already adjusted” so the limit includes them. Past 18 hours, a retake keeps both grades.

A worked GPA adjustment

Take the calculator’s example again. CHEM 1400 (3 hours) is a retake of an earlier D, which is already in the 30-hour record with its 3.0 quality points, and the retake earned a B.

• Without an adjustment, both grades count: (93.0 + 60.6) ÷ (30 + 17) = 153.6 ÷ 47 = 3.268.
• With one, the D’s 3 hours and 3.0 quality points leave the record: (93.0 − 3.0 + 60.6) ÷ (30 − 3 + 17) = 150.6 ÷ 44 = 3.4227, shown as 3.422.

That single adjustment is worth 0.154 here. The term GPA stays at 3.564 either way, since it only counts this semester’s B; the adjustment changes the cumulative GPA.

A retake can also go worse. Say you get an F after the D: the highest-grade rule keeps the D in your cumulative GPA and takes the F out, and those 3 hours still count toward the 18.

When an adjustment changes your standing

A past term’s academic standing isn’t recalculated automatically. It changes only if you file the request in the semester right after you finish the retake, and no later than the end of add/drop in your next semester of enrollment. File later, and the old standing stays as it was.

Academic notice, warning and dismissal

Mizzou sets your academic standing after every term, summer included, and it checks two GPAs: the one for that term and your cumulative GPA. If both are 2.0 or higher, you’re in good standing. If either is under 2.0, you move one step down. New first-semester students start in good standing.

So a student on notice has two terms to bring both GPAs back to 2.0 before a dismissal, and a student on warning has one. Grades of S, U, W and I don’t count toward either GPA. In the calculator, pick the standing you started the term with, and it shows where this term’s grades leave you.

Your school or college tells you your standing, usually within two or three days after grades are due. If an NR, an Incomplete or a wrong grade is changed later, Mizzou re-evaluates your standing. Some majors also set higher GPA standards for getting into the program or staying in it. The School of Journalism, for example, expects a 3.0 GPA and has its own probation.

Getting back to 2.0

A 1.800 GPA on 30 hours is 54.0 quality points, 6.0 short of the 60.0 that a 2.0 needs. Each hour of B makes up one of those points and each hour of A makes up two, while a C only holds you level.

So six hours of B or three hours of A close the gap, as long as the rest of the term is C or better. A 12-hour term of straight Cs would leave you at 1.857, still under the line.

The calculator’s standing line shows how many quality points you’re short whenever your cumulative GPA is under 2.0.

Appeals after a dismissal

After a first dismissal, you can appeal to your school or college. An approved appeal puts you back on Academic Warning. A denied one means sitting out at least one calendar year before applying for readmission.

After any later dismissal, you stay dismissed for at least a calendar year and then apply for readmission with an appeal to your school or college. Readmitted students return on Academic Warning.

Dean’s List GPA by school and college

Mizzou doesn’t have a single Dean’s List line; each school and college sets its own. All of them ask for a semester with at least 12 hours of A-F grades, and courses taken S/U don’t count toward the 12. The lists cover the fall and spring semesters, with no summer list, and only undergraduates are named.

Mizzou’s Student Honors site, which publishes the lists, gives these lines. Engineering names two lists: its Dean’s List for a 3.0 to 3.49 semester and its High Dean’s List from 3.5.

Pick your school or college in this University of Missouri GPA calculator, and it checks the semester you enter against that line, and against the cumulative minimum where there is one. The example semester, 3.564 on 17 graded hours with a 3.422 cumulative GPA, makes the Arts and Science list.

The fall list usually comes out in mid-January and the spring list in late May or early June. If you’ve set privacy (FERPA) restrictions in myZou, your name is left off.

When your name does appear, the class level next to it is your level at the end of that term. In Arts and Science, a course still in progress when the list is made can qualify you once it’s finished, though the college doesn’t republish the list.

Graduating cum laude, magna or summa cum laude

Latin honors at Mizzou are the same in every school and college. They’re based on your cumulative GPA of record, and you need at least 30 credit hours of MU-authored courses.

Nothing rounds up, so a 3.799 is cum laude, not magna. Mizzou sets official honors once your final semester is complete, and in an accelerated program the honors GPA also counts graduate courses you took as an undergraduate. Taking courses S/U can affect your eligibility as well, so check with your advising office before you choose S/U.

To graduate at all, you need a 2.00 GPA of record, at least 120 credit hours and 30 hours of MU-authored courses. Mizzou’s other degree requirements and those of your major come on top. Once you enter your record, the calculator’s honors line shows where your cumulative GPA sits against the three bands.

The Mizzou core GPA and the admission chart

If you’re applying from high school, Mizzou Admissions works out its own Mizzou Core GPA from the college-prep courses on your transcript and uses it for admission and scholarships. It counts every course in the six core subjects, shown with the units you need for admission:

• every English course (4 units), including speech, debate, journalism, literature, AP Research and AP Seminar, but not remedial English, ESL or yearbook
• every math course from Algebra I up (4 units), one unit per subject at most, so Algebra 1A and 1B make one unit; consumer math, accounting and personal finance don’t count
• every regular science course (3 units, one with a lab); general science doesn’t count, and agricultural science counts only after Ag I, II and III
• every social studies course (3 units), such as history, government, psychology, sociology or economics, but not personal finance, consumer economics or religion
• every foreign language course (2 units of the same language), American Sign Language included
• your highest fine-art grade (1 unit), from courses like band, choir, theater, dance or most art classes, but not art history or graphic or commercial art

It uses letter grades without the plus or minus, so an A- counts as an A and a C+ as a C. Merit scholarships are awarded on this core GPA and the rigor of your core courses.

The admission chart

If you send test scores, admission depends on your ACT or SAT (Mizzou superscores both) and either your core GPA or, if your high school ranks students, your class rank. You also need the 17 required core units. Mizzou’s GPA requirements for admission slide with your score: the higher your ACT or SAT, the lower the core GPA or class rank you need.

These lines are for students starting in Fall 2027. You can still apply if you’re under the chart or missing one or two required courses. Mizzou then gives your application a comprehensive review of your course rigor, your core GPA and any circumstances you explain in a personal statement or letter of recommendation.

If you apply test-optional, a committee reviews your whole application instead. Homeschooled students and students from unaccredited high schools can’t apply test-optional and need at least an ACT of 24 or an SAT of 1160. Getting into Mizzou doesn’t guarantee a place in programs with their own admission criteria, such as journalism, engineering and business.

A core GPA, worked through

The core GPA tool starts you off with 32 grades: 20 A, 10 B and 2 C. That’s 80 + 30 + 4 = 114 points, and 114 ÷ 32 = 3.5625, or 3.56. With an ACT of 21 the chart asks for 3.05, so this record clears it.

Until you pick your best score, the tool gives the chart’s range instead, from a 2.0 at an ACT of 24 up to 3.65 at an ACT of 17. Pick a score and it tests your exact core GPA against that line, and it warns you when a GPA reaches the line only by rounding.

Keeping a scholarship

Mizzou’s freshman merit scholarships, for Missouri residents and nonresidents alike, renew only if you keep at least a 2.75 GPA. The Columns Scholars Award for nonresidents asks for 3.25, and the Honors College sets the renewal rules for the Stamps Scholars Award.

Unless an award says otherwise, you also have to start at Mizzou the first semester after you finish high school. The scholarships cover fall and spring only, and the Student Financial Aid website lists the full renewal criteria.

Entering your Mizzou record and a target GPA

1. Start with your record. Your cumulative UM GPA is the GPA of record on your transcript. Put it in “UM GPA so far” with your GPA hours, or enter your quality points for the exact figure. First-semester students skip this step.
2. List this term’s courses. Each row takes a course, its credit hours and a grade, and Add course gives you another row.
3. Flag any retake. If you’re filing a GPA adjustment, choose the grade the course replaces in the Retake column, from Was C- to Was F. Not adjusted keeps both grades. Hours you’ve had adjusted before go in “Hours already adjusted”.
4. Choose your school or college and your standing now. The first sets the Dean’s List line, and the second is where the standing check starts.
5. Add a goal. Type the cumulative GPA you’re after and the hours you’ll take next term; the plan line then gives the term GPA you’d need.

Reset brings the example semester back, and Copy sends the full result to your clipboard. Open What each course adds for a course-by-course breakdown. Nothing you type leaves your browser or gets saved. Academic renewal, grade appeals and graduate courses are outside what the tool models, and your Mizzou transcript always has the final word.

Sources

• University of Missouri Academic Catalog 2026–27: Grades, Academic Standing, Latin Honors, Transfer Credit and Degree Applicability, Academic Renewal, the university degree requirements and the School of Journalism
• MU Faculty Handbook: VII. Credits and Grades and Faculty Council’s summary of the 2025–26 changes
• Office of the University Registrar: Course Repeat, GPA of Record, Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading and University GPA Averages
• Mizzou Student Honors: Dean’s List requirements; College of Arts and Science: Dean’s List and commencement and Latin honors; College of Engineering: the Dean’s List
• Mizzou Admissions: Freshman Admission Requirements, Test-Optional Admission and Freshman Scholarships

Built and maintained by Mahmudul, the creator of Calculate Your Grade. Mizzou rules checked in November 2026 against the Academic Catalog, the Faculty Handbook, the Office of the University Registrar, Mizzou Student Honors and Mizzou Admissions.

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• Got an offer from Illinois too? The University of Illinois GPA calculator follows a scale in thirds, so an A- is worth 3.67 there instead of 3.7, and it cuts every GPA to two decimals. Illinois replaces a retaken grade for 4 courses and 10 hours at most, against Mizzou’s 18 hours.
• Keeping Tennessee on your list? The UT Knoxville GPA calculator follows UTK’s scale, which steps in tenths like Mizzou’s but has no A+, and it rounds GPAs to two decimals. UTK replaces three grades and 13 hours at most, and its cum laude starts at 3.50, a tenth below Mizzou’s 3.600.

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