ASU GPA Calculator

How to use the ASU GPA calculator

This Arizona State University GPA calculator opens with an example filled in: a student with a 3.20 ASU GPA on 30 graded hours, taking calculus, chemistry, composition and psychology this semester, plus an elective they withdrew from. Replace it with your own courses.

1. Add this term’s courses. Enter each course’s credit hours (ASU calls them semester hours) and pick its grade. The grade list shows ASU’s value next to every letter, and the marks that don’t count, such as W, P and Y, sit in their own group. Partial hours like 0.25 or 1.5 work too.
2. Add your ASU record so far. This is optional. In My ASU, open Grades and Transcripts, then Grade Detail, and copy your total grade points and graded units. Your current GPA and graded units also work, but the total grade points give the exact answer. Leave out transfer credit, because it never enters an ASU GPA.
3. Mark any repeats. If a course is your second try at a D or an E, set Repeat to the grade you got the first time. The calculator then applies ASU’s repeat rule to your cumulative GPA.
4. Plan ahead. Also optional: enter the cumulative GPA you’re aiming for and the hours you plan to take next term.

You get your term GPA and your cumulative GPA, rounded to the hundredth as ASU does, with the honor points and net hours behind them. You also see your academic standing, whether the term makes the Dean’s List, which graduation honors range your GPA is in, and the term GPA your target needs. Open “What each course adds” to see every course’s honor points.

The ASU grading scale

The ASU GPA scale is a 4.0 scale with plus and minus grades and an A+ worth 4.33. It skips three of the usual letter grades, though. There is no C-, D+ or D-, so the step below a C is a D, and the failing grade is an E, not an F. This plus/minus scale has been in use since fall 2004.

Other marks show up on ASU transcripts too. EN, EU and XE count exactly like an E, and so do the older E1 to E5 and E8. The rest stay out of the GPA:

ASU doesn’t publish a percentage for each letter. Your instructor sets the cut-offs in the syllabus, so the same 90 can earn different letters in different courses. Check the syllabus first, then use ASU’s value for the letter.

Why an A+ is 4.33 but your cumulative GPA stops at 4.00

An A+ adds 4.33 honor points for every hour, so it really is worth more than an A. ASU caps the cumulative GPA at 4.00, though, which means a record of nothing but A+ grades still shows a 4.00 cumulative, not a 4.33. The extra points aren’t wasted. They can balance out an A- or a B+ somewhere else on your record, as long as the total stays under the cap.

You’ll find the ASU A+ listed as 4.0 on some GPA sites. That mixes up the grade with the cap: the grade is worth 4.33, and the 4.00 is the ceiling on the cumulative figure. ASU’s policy states the cap for the cumulative GPA and says nothing about a single term, so the calculator shows your term GPA with A+ counted at 4.33, tells you when it’s over 4.00, and caps only the cumulative.

How to calculate your ASU GPA

To calculate your GPA, ASU uses three steps. Multiply each grade’s point value by the course’s semester hours to get its honor points (what many schools call quality points). Add up the honor points, and add up the hours that earned a grade from A+ to E, which ASU calls net hours. Then divide the first total by the second. As a formula:

The rounding is where ASU differs from schools that simply cut off the extra digits. At ASU a 3.495 rounds up to a 3.50, and a 3.494 rounds down to a 3.49.

Worked example

Here is the term the calculator opens with:

General Chemistry, for instance, is 4 × 3.33 = 13.32 honor points. The four graded courses come to 46.32 honor points on 13 net hours, and 46.32 ÷ 13 = 3.5631, which rounds to a 3.56 term GPA. The withdrawn elective adds nothing to either total.

Your cumulative ASU GPA

The calculator also works as a cumulative GPA calculator for ASU students: it adds this term to the totals you already have. The example student has a 3.20 on 30 graded hours, which is 96 honor points. Add this term’s 46.32 and you get 142.32 honor points on 43 hours. That’s 3.3098, shown as a 3.31.

Where you can, use the total grade points from My ASU instead of multiplying your GPA by your hours. Your GPA has already been rounded, so that product can be slightly off, while the totals are exact.

Only ASU coursework counts here. If an application asks for one overall GPA across every college you’ve attended, enter each school’s terms in the GPA calculator cumulative tool instead.

The GPA you need next term

Run the same formula backward to find the term GPA a target needs. Multiply the target by your total hours after next term, subtract the honor points you already have, and divide by next term’s hours.

ASU’s rounding helps a little here, because a cumulative 3.395 already shows as a 3.40. Take the example student, with 142.32 honor points on 43 hours, who plans 15 more hours. For a 3.40, the student needs 3.395 × 58 = 196.91 honor points in total, so 54.59 from next term, and 54.59 ÷ 15 = 3.6393. A 3.64 next term does it, and that’s the figure the calculator gives. If the answer is above 4.33, no single term can get you there.

Rules that change an ASU GPA

Repeating a D or E

ASU’s repeat policy is its version of grade replacement. You can repeat an undergraduate course in which you earned a D or an E once, and EN, EU and XE count as E for this. The repeat has to be taken at ASU, and Independent Learning courses don’t qualify. Under SSM 203-06, for students first admitted in fall 2008 or later, both grades stay on your transcript but only the higher one counts in your cumulative GPA, for up to 12 repeated hours. After those 12 hours, both grades count.

Say a student with 75 honor points on 30 hours, a 2.50, retakes a 3-hour course they got a D in and earns a B. Counting both attempts gives 84 honor points on 33 hours, a 2.55. With the D taken out, it’s 81 honor points on 30 hours, a 2.70.

A few limits go with it. A third attempt needs a petition to your college (SSM 201-13). You generally can’t repeat a course after earning a C or better. A course repeated at another school never replaces an ASU grade, and once you’ve graduated you can’t remove a grade from before your bachelor’s degree. Students admitted before fall 2008 follow an older rule: the higher grade counts in 100- and 200-level courses, and both count at the 300 and 400 level. The calculator applies the fall 2008 rule and assumes you haven’t used any of your 12 hours yet.

Pass/fail, withdrawals and marks that don’t count

A P (pass) needs permission from both your instructor and your college, and it’s only for undergraduate courses. It earns hours toward your degree but no honor points. A Y does the same job in courses that are graded only pass/fail, such as many internships, research credits and workshops. A W goes on your transcript if you withdraw after the first week of classes, and it earns no credit and no grade. An X is an audit, with no credit. None of these touch your GPA.

An incomplete becomes an E after a year

An I holds a course open while you finish the work, and it isn’t counted in the GPA at first. But an undergraduate I that isn’t completed within one calendar year turns into an E automatically, worth 0.00. When ASU checks graduation requirements, it already treats an open I as an E. If you’re carrying an incomplete, enter it as an E in the calculator to see the worst case.

Transfer and community college grades

Courses from other colleges can earn you credit at ASU, but your ASU GPA is based only on coursework taken at ASU, so their grades never enter it. Courses generally transfer with a C- or better. A course you retake at a community college won’t replace an ASU grade either. Your transfer GPA still matters when you apply to ASU as a transfer student, as the admission section below shows.

Academic renewal after five years away

Academic renewal (SSM 202-06) gives some returning students a fresh start. It’s for undergraduates readmitted with a GPA under 2.00 after at least five years away. Once back, you need at least 12 hours in residence within three semesters with a 2.50 GPA or higher and no grade below a C, and your college can ask for more hours. You apply before your third semester after readmission. ASU then treats your earlier coursework like community college transfer credit: courses passed with a C or better can still count toward your degree, and your GPA counts only the work after renewal. It can be granted once in your academic career.

Academic standing: warning, probation and disqualification

ASU defines good academic standing as a cumulative GPA of 2.00 or higher, and the standard is the same whatever your catalog year. The same 2.00 is the minimum cumulative GPA to graduate, counting all courses taken at ASU, and some programs ask for more. Below 2.00, your status depends on where you are in your studies and on your term GPA:

You can keep enrolling while you’re on warning or probation, which ASU calls conditional good standing. Disqualification is decided by your college, and a disqualified student can’t enroll in a fall or spring semester unless they’re readmitted. Majors can add their own GPA rules on top: eAdvisor tracks each major’s critical requirements, which can include a minimum GPA, and being off track two semesters in a row can mean a change of major. You can also estimate a major GPA: put only your major’s courses into the calculator, with nothing under your ASU record so far.

What ASU asks of students under 2.00

A student on warning or probation has to meet with an academic success advisor and make a plan for getting back to good standing, and that plan can include the refresher course UNI 220 Mindset Connections. On the GPA side, retaking a D or an E is usually the quickest fix, because only the higher grade counts, for up to 12 hours.

How many honor points it takes to get back to 2.00

Every hour in your GPA needs 2 honor points to hold a 2.00. A student with a 1.80 on 30 hours has 54 honor points against the 60 a 2.00 needs, so they’re 6 points short. Each hour of A earns 2 points more than a C, and each hour of B earns 1 more. So 3 hours of A close the gap (66 points on 33 hours), and so do 6 hours of B (72 on 36). The calculator shows this shortfall whenever your GPA is under 2.00.

Financial aid eligibility depends on a separate check, satisfactory academic progress, which ASU reviews once a year after the spring semester. Undergraduates need a 2.00 cumulative GPA and must complete at least 66.67 percent of the credits they attempt, counting transfer and exam credit, within a maximum number of hours. Graduate students need a 3.00.

Dean’s List, graduation honors and Barrett

You make the Dean’s List at ASU with a GPA of 3.50 or higher on at least 12 hours graded A+ through E in a fall or spring semester at ASU. Pass/fail and withdrawn hours don’t count toward the 12. ASU draws up the list at the end of each fall and spring semester, and there’s no summer list. The example term in the calculator qualifies, with a 3.56 on 13 graded hours.

Graduating with academic recognition

ASU’s Latin honors appear on your diploma and transcript. They’re based on your ASU cumulative GPA, counting only resident coursework at ASU:

If you earn a second bachelor’s degree at ASU, its honors are based only on the hours you earn after your first degree is posted. The calculator shows which range your cumulative GPA falls in.

Barrett, The Honors College

Barrett students need a cumulative GPA of 3.25 or higher by graduation, and only courses with a C (2.00) or better count toward Barrett’s own requirements. Barrett’s 3.25 is below the 3.40 cum laude line, so the two are separate goals.

ASU GPA requirements for admission

There’s no single minimum GPA for getting into ASU. Each type of applicant has its own rule, and the admission GPAs aren’t worked out the same way as your ASU GPA, so it helps to know which figure each rule uses.

First-year applicants need the competency courses set by the Arizona Board of Regents: 4 years of math, 4 of English, 3 of lab science, 2 of social science, 2 of the same second language, and 1 of fine arts or career and technical education. On top of that, they need one of these four:

• a place in the top 25% of their graduating class
• a 3.00 unweighted GPA in the competency courses (with an A as 4.00)
• an ACT of 22 (24 for nonresidents)
• an SAT of 1120 (1180 for nonresidents)

Test scores aren’t required. Each competency area also needs at least a 2.00, and ASU allows a deficiency in no more than two areas, but not in both math and lab science. Because the 3.00 is unweighted, an A in an AP or honors class still counts as 4.00.

Applicants with a high school equivalency diploma can qualify by completing 24 semester credits through ASU’s Earned Admission with at least a 2.75 GPA, or 24 or more college credits elsewhere with at least a 2.50.

Most students who enroll clear the 3.00 easily. In ASU’s Common Data Set for fall 2025, first-year students on its campuses had an average high school GPA of 3.52, and 59% had a 3.50 or higher. About 10% enrolled with a high school GPA below 3.00. ASU admitted 61,533 of its 69,617 first-year applicants that fall, about 88%.

Transfer applicants with 24 or more transferable credits need a cumulative transfer GPA of at least 2.50. With 12 to 23 credits, they need the same 2.50 and must also meet the first-year requirements, and with fewer than 12 they apply as first-year students. An associate degree or higher from a regionally accredited college lowers the minimum to 2.00.

For graduate school, ASU says competitive applicants typically have a B average, a 3.00, in the last 60 semester hours (or 90 quarter hours) of undergraduate coursework, and the application asks for your junior-senior GPA. Departments can still consider applicants below that. To estimate yours, enter only the courses from your last 60 hours in the calculator and leave your record so far blank.

How this calculator works

This ASU grade calculator applies the rules in Arizona State University’s published academic policies: the grade values with the A+ at 4.33, the marks left out of the GPA, rounding to the nearest hundredth, the 4.00 cap on the cumulative GPA, the fall 2008 repeat rule, the standing definitions in the catalog glossary, the Dean’s List rule and the academic recognition ranges. It does the GPA calculation in whole numbers, hundredths of a grade point times hundredths of an hour, so nothing gets rounded until the final step.

Everything runs in your browser, and nothing you type is sent or stored. The calculator isn’t made by or affiliated with Arizona State University, and your transcript and your college have the final word. It doesn’t apply the pre-2008 repeat rule, grades from before fall 2004 or academic renewal, so check those cases with your advisor.

Sources

• Arizona State University, Academic Catalog: Retention and academic standards
• Arizona State University, Academic Catalog: Glossary of academic terms
• Arizona State University, Academic Catalog: University undergraduate graduation requirements
• Arizona State University, Academic Catalog: Barrett, The Honors College policies
• Arizona State University, Academic Catalog: University academic policies, including SSM 203-06 (deletion of a D or E grade), SSM 201-13 (third attempts) and SSM 202-06 (academic renewal)
• ASU Admission: First-year admission requirements, Course competency requirements, Transfer student admission, Transferring college credits and Graduate student admission
• ASU Tuition and Financial Aid: Satisfactory academic progress
• ASU Graduate College: Student academic progress
• ASU University Office of Institutional Analysis: Common Data Set (2025-26, Campus Immersion)

Built and maintained by Mahmudul, the creator of Calculate Your Grade. ASU rules checked against the 2026-27 catalog and ASU’s policy manuals in October 2026.

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