TAMU GPA Calculator

Texas A&M grade points: A to F, and a U counts as an F

Texas A&M uses whole letter grades on a 4.0 scale. An A earns 4 grade points per semester hour, a B 3, a C 2, a D 1 and an F 0, so no A&M GPA can go above 4.000.

There are no plus or minus grades on the transcript, which is why a calculator that offers an A- or a B+ for Texas A&M gets your GPA wrong.

The grade that catches students out is the U. It’s what you get for D or F work in a course taken satisfactory/unsatisfactory. For undergraduates it counts exactly like an F: no grade points, and its hours go into your GPA hours.

These values come from the 2026–27 undergraduate catalog and Student Rule 10 (Grading, revised 2026). One old exception: F and U grades from Spring 2020 are left out of the GPA, a one-term rule from the start of the pandemic.

No plus or minus grades at A&M

The grade that reaches your transcript is a plain letter, whatever marks your exams and papers carried. There’s no campus-wide percentage scale either: Student Rule 10 makes each instructor hand out the grading rule by the first class period, so your syllabus decides whether a 79.5 is a B or a C.

S/U courses: an S costs nothing, a U costs as much as an F

An S, for C work or better, gives you passed hours and nothing else: it can’t raise or lower your GPA. A U costs you as much as an F, as the table shows.

Your college decides which courses you may take S/U, and a student on scholastic probation can be required to take electives that way. For KINE 198 and KINE 199 you can switch the grade type in Howdy until the Q-drop deadline.

How to calculate your TAMU GPA (GPR) by hand

Your Texas A&M GPA is your grade points divided by the semester hours you received grades in. F and U hours count; S, I, NG, Q, W and X hours don’t (Student Rule 10.11).

GPA = total grade points ÷ total GPA hours

1. Multiply each course’s semester hours by the points its grade carries.
2. Total those grade points, then total the hours of the courses graded A to F or U.
3. Divide the first total by the second.

The calculator opens with a first-year engineering semester; the hours for each course are the ones the 2026–27 catalog lists.

That’s 50 grade points over 14 GPA hours, or 3.5714, which the calculator shows as a 3.571 semester GPA. KINE 199’s hour still counts toward the hours you passed, just not toward the GPA.

Why A&M calls it a GPR

GPR stands for grade point ratio, Texas A&M’s other name for the GPA. A&M’s scholarship rules call the two terms interchangeable, so a scholarship that asks for a 3.0 GPR means the same number as a 3.0 GPA.

Adding a semester to your cumulative GPA

The cumulative GPA is the same division, run on every grade you’ve earned at A&M. A 3.250 GPA on 45 hours is 146.25 grade points. Add the semester’s 50 points and 14 hours and you have 196.25 points over 59 hours, a 3.326 cumulative GPA.

Don’t average your semester GPAs. A 3.000 semester on 15 hours and a 4.000 semester on 12 hours average to 3.500, but the real cumulative GPA is 93 points over 27 hours, a 3.444, because the longer semester weighs more.

Why this calculator shows three decimals

Texas A&M writes its GPAs and its GPA lines to three places, as in 2.000 and 3.500, and doesn’t publish a rounding rule. The calculator cuts at the third decimal instead of rounding, so a 3.4999 shows as 3.499 and never looks as if it reached the 3.500 line.

Retaking a course at Texas A&M: both grades count

Texas A&M doesn’t replace grades. When you retake a course, the first grade stays on your record and both grades count in your cumulative GPA. Only the higher grade counts toward your degree audit (Student Rule 10.21), and the catalog lets the course’s credit count once.

Say you failed CHEM 107 and your record now stands at a 2.500 GPA on 30 hours. Retaking it for a B adds 9 grade points and 3 hours: 84 points over 33 hours, a 2.545.

If the B replaced the F, the same record would be 84 points over 30 hours, a 2.800. That gap is why a retake helps less at A&M than at schools with grade forgiveness.

The First Year Grade Exclusion that once let some students drop early grades ended on 23 August 2013.

The three-attempt limit

You can attempt a course three times at most, and a Q-drop or a W counts as an attempt (an NG doesn’t). A fourth attempt needs approval from both your dean and the department that teaches the course.

You also have to repeat a course before you finish a more advanced course in the same subject; the department head decides what counts as more advanced.

Retaking a B or better earns no grade points

If you repeat an A&M course you already passed with a B or better, the repeat earns no grade points unless the catalog says that course can be repeated for credit. So a retake can add grade points after a C, D, F or U, but not after a B or an A.

Q-drops: four at A&M, six under Texas law

A Q-drop removes a course from your GPA: the Q never earns grade points or adds GPA hours. Undergraduates normally get four Q-drops at Texas A&M. Texas Education Code 51.907 adds a second limit: six dropped courses across every Texas public college and university, for students who started college in fall 2007 or later.

• In the first 12 class days of a fall or spring semester a drop leaves no record. After that you need your dean’s approval, and you can Q-drop through the 60th class day (the 15th class day of a summer term, or the 35th of a 10-week summer semester).
• A Q-drop in a one-hour course doesn’t count toward A&M’s four, though it does count toward the state’s six.
• Dropping a lecture and its companion lab at the same time counts as one Q-drop.
• Senate Bill 165 turned the Q-drops from Spring 2020 through Summer 2021 into Ws, so they no longer count against either limit.
• Past the deadline, a drop is recorded as a W, and only your dean can approve it, for unusual circumstances.

A Q doesn’t count toward the honor-list hours either, and a first-semester freshman with a Q-drop can’t make either list that semester. Q and W hours also don’t count toward full-time enrollment, so a drop that takes you under 12 hours changes your enrollment status.

Two other marks change later. An I (incomplete) becomes an F if it isn’t finished by the last day of classes of the next fall or spring semester you enroll in, or if you register for the course again.

An X, which means no grade was submitted, becomes an F if no grade arrives within 30 days of the start of the next term.

What GPA puts you on scholastic probation at Texas A&M?

You become scholastically deficient when any of three GPAs falls under 2.00: your semester GPA, your cumulative GPA, or the cumulative GPA in your major field. Missing your college’s or major’s own GPA requirements counts too (Student Rule 12, revised 2025).

Your academic dean then reviews your record and can warn you, let you continue on scholastic probation, or dismiss you from your college or major. A suspension from the university goes through the Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, and you can appeal it to the Undergraduate Academic Appeals Panel.

A single U can cause it. Three C courses on 10 hours give 20 grade points, a 2.000. Add a one-hour S/U course: an S leaves the semester at 2.000, while a U makes it 20 points over 11 hours, a 1.818, under the line.

Checking your major GPA

The calculator works on whatever courses you give it. To check your major GPA, enter only the semester’s courses in your major, with your major GPA and hours so far as the record. Your advisor can confirm which courses your college counts in the major.

Getting back above 2.00

A 1.800 GPA on 30 hours is 54 grade points, 6 short of the 60 that 30 hours need for a 2.000. Each hour of A earns 2 more grade points than a C, and each hour of B earns 1 more. In a semester that is otherwise all Cs, 3 hours of A (or 6 of B) close the gap.

Put your record and a 2.00 target into the calculator and it gives the semester GPA you need on the hours you plan to take.

Distinguished Student and Dean’s Honor Roll

Texas A&M names you a Distinguished Student for a semester GPA of 3.5 or higher on at least 15 graded hours (12 in a summer session) with no grade below a C. At 3.75 or higher under the same conditions you’re also on the Dean’s Honor Roll, and you keep the Distinguished Student title too (Student Rule 11).

• S hours don’t count toward the 15, and neither do Q, W or NG hours.
• An I or a U rules you out for the semester, whatever your GPA.
• First-semester freshmen need 15 hours, no grade below C and no Q-drops.
• Only undergraduate courses, or graduate courses used for your undergraduate degree, count.
• A student with a disability can ask Disability Resources for an accommodation on the minimum load, one semester at a time.

The calculator’s opening semester shows the S-hour rule at work: a 3.571 GPA clears 3.5, but KINE 199’s S leaves 14 graded hours, one short of 15. With KINE 199 taken for a letter grade of A, the same semester would have 15 graded hours and a 3.600 GPA, enough for Distinguished Student.

Graduating cum laude, magna cum laude or summa cum laude

Latin honors at Texas A&M need at least 60 semester hours completed at A&M and an A&M GPA of 3.500 for cum laude, 3.700 for magna cum laude or 3.900 for summa cum laude (Student Rule 15, revised 2026).

• Credit by examination and courses reserved for graduate credit are left out of both the hours and the GPA.
• The commencement program uses your graded courses through the 60th class day of your last fall or spring semester (the 15th class day of the second summer term). The honor on your transcript is calculated at the final grading deadline of your last semester, and it isn’t recalculated after the graduation clearance deadline.
• Hours at the College Station, Galveston and Qatar campuses all count toward the 60.
• An upper-division student (60 or more hours) found responsible for academic misconduct can’t receive Latin honors.

Two professional programs use different Latin honors lines: the School of Law and the College of Pharmacy, for their professional students.

Other GPA lines at Texas A&M

A few more A&M rules turn on a GPA or an hour count.

Only courses taken at Texas A&M count in your A&M GPA (Student Rule 10.10). Transfer and AP credit can add hours toward your degree, but no grade points, so a strong transfer record doesn’t lift your A&M GPA and a weak one doesn’t lower it.

Entering your Texas A&M record and a target GPA

1. Begin with your record so far. Put your cumulative GPR in “GPR so far” with the GPA hours behind it, or enter your grade points for the exact figure. Count Texas A&M courses only. First-semester students skip this step.
2. List this semester’s courses. Each row needs the course, its semester hours and the grade; Add course opens another row. Pick U (as F) for unsatisfactory work and S for satisfactory.
3. Mark any retake. Choose Retake for a course you’re taking again. Both grades count, so the earlier grade stays in your record so far and the new one adds to it.
4. Set the semester and your standing. Pick “Fall or spring” or “Summer” for the honor-list hours, and say whether you’re in good standing or on scholastic probation.
5. Add a target. Enter the cumulative GPA you want and your hours next semester. The calculator shows the semester GPA you’d need, or says when it can’t be reached in one semester.

Everything runs in your browser, and nothing you type is sent or stored.

Sources

• Texas A&M University Undergraduate Catalog 2026–2027: Grading System, Registration and Academic Status, Degree Information and Admission
• Texas A&M Student Rules: Rule 10, Grading, Rule 11, Distinguished Students, Rule 12, Scholastic Deficiency/Probation and Rule 15, Graduation with Honors
• Office of the Registrar: Q-Drops
• Aggie One Stop: Grades and Maintaining Scholarship Eligibility

Built and maintained by Mahmudul, the creator of Calculate Your Grade. Texas A&M rules checked in November 2026 against the undergraduate catalog, the Student Rules, the Office of the Registrar and Aggie One Stop.

Related calculators

• UT Austin grades on a plus and minus scale, so an A- is worth 3.67 there. The GPA calculator UT Austin students use shows a four-decimal GPA under the two-decimal one. Like A&M, UT counts every attempt when you retake a course.
• For the University of Houston, the GPA calculator UH students use has plus and minus grades too, and it cuts every GPA at two decimals. UH also keeps both attempts of a retake, apart from its First-year Grade Exclusion. Latin honors work differently: UH uses the GPA on your last 54 hours there, while A&M uses your whole A&M GPA once you’ve completed 60 hours at A&M.

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