Rutgers GPA Calculator

Rutgers GPA rules at a glance

• Rutgers grades on seven letters. An A earns 4.0 grade points, a B+ 3.5, a B 3.0, a C+ 2.5, a C 2.0, a D 1.0 and an F 0.0. There is no A+ and no minus grade, so a Rutgers GPA tops out at 4.000.
• Your GPA is your grade points divided by the credits behind them. Pass/No Credit, W and the E and J credit prefixes stay out of it, and so do grades you earned at other colleges.
• In the School of Arts and Sciences (SAS) at New Brunswick, a D or F leaves your cumulative GPA when you retake the course, for up to four courses and 16 credits.
• The SAS Dean’s List takes a semester GPA of 3.500 or better on at least 12 credits with letter grades.
• SAS gives an academic warning after a semester under 2.000, and probation after a second one in a row.
• SAS awards Latin honors on your cumulative GPA: cum laude from 3.500, magna cum laude from 3.700 and summa cum laude from 3.850, and it never rounds the average up to reach a line.
• Each school writes its own repeat, Dean’s List, standing and honors rules, which is why the calculator asks which one you’re in.

How to use the Rutgers GPA calculator

The calculator opens on a sample SAS student with a 3.150 GPA on 30 credits and five courses this semester: Expository Writing, Calculus I, General Chemistry, Intro to Psychology and a Pass/No Credit elective. Swap in your own courses and every number updates as you type. It’s a Rutgers grade calculator for a whole semester, not for a single course.

1. Pick your school. The school at the top decides which repeat rule, Dean’s List line, standing check and honors scale apply. Schools without a campus name are at New Brunswick. If yours isn’t listed, choose “Another school (scale only)” for the GPA alone.
2. List your courses for the semester. Each row takes a course name if you want one, its credits and a grade, either final or the one you’re aiming for. The grade menu prints the points next to every letter and keeps P, NC, W, TZ and NG in a group of their own, since none of them count in the GPA.
3. Mark any retakes. If you’re repeating a course, pick your earlier grade in its Retake box. The choices change with your school: SAS offers “Had D pre-2014” and “Had C or better”, the Business School adds business-course options, and Engineering and Pharmacy keep both grades.
4. Add your record so far. Type your Rutgers GPA and the GPA credits behind it, or your total grade points for an exact result. Leave the record empty to see this semester on its own.
5. Fill in the standing fields your school uses. Depending on the school, that’s the standing you’re on now, which semester this is, your year, or how many semesters in a row ended under 2.000.
6. Set a target GPA. Put in the cumulative GPA you’re after and next term’s credits to find out what semester GPA would get you there.

The results show your semester and cumulative GPAs to three decimals, followed by your standing, the Dean’s List check, where you sit against your school’s graduation honors lines and next term’s target. Below them, the “What each course adds” breakdown lists the grade points behind every row and marks which retakes the calculator applied.

A worked example

Here’s how to calculate your GPA by hand, using the sample semester. Expository Writing earns 3 × 3.5 = 10.5 grade points, Calculus I 4 × 4.0 = 16.0, General Chemistry 4 × 3.5 = 14.0 and Intro to Psychology 3 × 4.0 = 12.0. That makes 52.5 grade points on 14 credits, a 3.750 semester, and the Pass/No Credit elective adds credits but no grade points. A 3.150 on 30 credits means about 94.5 grade points already, so the cumulative GPA becomes 147 ÷ 44 = 3.3409, which Rutgers writes as 3.340. With 14 letter-graded credits at 3.750, the semester makes the SAS Dean’s List.

Now say Calculus I is a retake of an F. Under the SAS rule, the old F and its 4 credits leave the cumulative GPA, so it becomes 147 ÷ 40 = 3.675, while the semester GPA stays at 3.750.

Where to find your credits and grade points

Your unofficial transcript shows your term grades and your cumulative GPA. It’s in Rutgers’ Student Unofficial Transcript and Grades system, which opens from myRutgers, the student portal, and updates once a day. A credit is what some schools call a credit hour, so a three-credit course is 3 in the calculator.

For your record so far, use only courses graded A through F at Rutgers: Pass/No Credit, withdrawals and transfer credit don’t belong in it. Grade points give the exact result. If all you have is your GPA, type it in with its credits: the calculator turns them back into grade points, and the result may differ from your transcript in the last decimal because that GPA had already been cut.

Rutgers grading scale: grade points from A to F

Rutgers University Policy 10.2.2, the official rule, sets one basic grading scale for the whole university. Each letter carries a fixed number of grade points per credit (some schools call them quality points). The only half steps are B+ and C+, so a B+ sits exactly between a B and an A, and nothing lands between a C and a D.

Because the top grade is an A at 4.0, a Rutgers GPA can’t go above 4.000, and generic calculators that offer an A- or a B- will give you the wrong answer for a Rutgers transcript. An XF, the disciplinary F given for a serious academic integrity violation, counts as a 0.0 like any other F.

The policy also lets a few schools keep grading schemes of their own, among them the School of Nursing and the medical, dental and public health schools. The scale here is the basic one the undergraduate schools in this calculator use.

Grades that don’t count in your GPA

• P and NC. Pass stands for a grade from A to C, and No Credit for a D or F. Neither one enters your GPA, though a P earns its credits.
• W. A withdrawal leaves the course on your transcript with no effect on your GPA.
• T grades. A TB+, TB, TC+, TC, TD or TF marks unfinished work. The letter after the T is the grade you’ll get if the work isn’t completed: fall T grades are due by May 1, spring and summer ones by December 1.
• TZ and NG. A TZ, given in a verifiable emergency, has no immediate effect, but it turns into an F if it isn’t resolved in the following semester. An NG, meaning no grade was reported, turns into an F the same way if it isn’t cleared up.
• H and S/U. An H covers the first half of a full-year honors course until the final grade arrives, and S/U grades go with courses taken for N credit.

Percentages and letter grades

Rutgers University Policy 10.2.2 defines each letter and its grade points but no percentages. Rutgers–Newark’s undergraduate catalog does print a scale: an A from 89.5 to 100, a B+ from 84.5, a B from 79.5, a C+ from 74.5, a C from 69.5 and a D from 59.5, with anything lower an F. In New Brunswick and Camden the cutoffs come from your course syllabus, so a 78 might be a C+ in one class and a C in another. Check the syllabus before you pick a grade in the calculator.

How Rutgers calculates your GPA

Your Rutgers GPA is calculated like any grade point average: multiply the grade in each course by its number of credits, add those grade points up and divide by the total credits of the courses that count.

It’s an average weighted by credits, so a four-credit course moves it more than a one-credit one. Honors courses get no extra weight: an A is 4.0 in any class. An F adds credits but no grade points, so it pulls the average down. A course taken Pass/No Credit, or with an E, J or N prefix, adds nothing to either side.

The prefixes show up beside a course’s credits on your transcript, and the repeat rules lean on them: an E on an old grade takes it out of your GPA, and a K on a repeat keeps both grades in.

Three decimals, never rounded up

Rutgers writes its GPA lines to three decimals, such as 2.000 and 3.500, and its honors rules say averages are not rounded to the next higher number. The calculator works with exact grade points and cuts every GPA at the third decimal, so a 3.8499 shows as 3.849, not 3.850.

Rutgers cumulative GPA

Your cumulative GPA covers every graded course you’ve taken at Rutgers. Grades from other colleges don’t come with transfer credit, and Rutgers Admissions says plainly that your GPA from a previous college doesn’t transfer. Rutgers–Newark is the exception: courses taken at NJIT through its Exchange Registration Program count in the Newark average.

Once the record so far is in, the tool works as a Rutgers cumulative GPA calculator. If you’d rather combine whole terms straight from your transcript, the GPA calculator with existing GPA adds one row per term.

Major GPA

A major GPA uses the same formula on your major courses only. The School of Engineering marks major courses with an M prefix and asks for 2.000 in both your cumulative GPA and your major GPA to graduate. To check a major GPA here, enter just those courses and their credits.

Science GPA and law or medical school applications

Law and medical schools don’t take your Rutgers GPA as it’s printed. Their application services (LSAC for law school, AMCAS for MD programs and AACOMAS for osteopathic medical schools) rebuild it from your transcripts and count every attempt of a repeated course, so a D or F that SAS took out of your cumulative GPA comes back.

LSAC also converts letters on its own table, where a B+ is 3.33 and a C+ is 2.33, and it turns a No Credit from Pass/No Credit into a zero. AACOMAS values a B+ at 3.3 and a C+ at 2.3, and AMCAS counts every failed course, even one your school leaves out.

The science GPA on these applications is the same formula run on science courses only. AMCAS’s BCPM GPA takes biology, chemistry, physics and math. AACOMAS counts biology, chemistry, physics and other sciences toward its science GPA and puts math in the non-science column.

To estimate one here, choose “Another school (scale only)”, enter each attempt as its own row and add only the courses that count. The calculator still values a B+ at 3.5 and leaves an NC out, so for LSAC or AACOMAS the real figure comes out a little lower whenever you have B+, C+ or NC grades.

Repeating a course at Rutgers

Rutgers has no single grade replacement rule: whether a retake erases the old grade depends on your school. Rutgers prints both attempts on your transcript, then uses prefixes to decide which grade your GPA counts.

At SAS and SEBS, the old D or F gets an E prefix and the repeat gets an R prefix once the semester you retake it ends. You can use the rule only once per course, the repeat has to be taken at Rutgers–New Brunswick, and it doesn’t apply to an F given for academic dishonesty. It also doesn’t put you on a Dean’s List after the fact or cancel a standing action.

Two more rules apply at SAS and SEBS. A D earned before fall 2014 gets a K prefix on the repeat, so both grades stay in your GPA. And repeating a course you passed with a C or better earns E credit, which counts toward neither your GPA nor your degree, so the catalog strongly discourages it. In the calculator, “Had C or better” leaves that course out of both GPAs.

Pharmacy also says a repeated course needs at least a C. The Camden catalog sets a repeat option only for the School of Business–Camden, so the Camden setting here has no Retake box. The calculator assumes you haven’t used any repeats under your school’s limit yet.

Dean’s List GPA at Rutgers, school by school

Each school compiles its own Dean’s List every semester, and most set the semester GPA line at 3.500 on 12 letter-graded credits. Where they differ is in which credits count and which grades keep you off.

Engineering raises its line each year: 3.2 for first-year students, 3.3 for sophomores, 3.4 for juniors and 3.5 for seniors. Pass/No Credit courses can’t help you reach the 12 credits, so a heavy P/NC load can keep a strong semester off the list. A retake that later clears an old grade won’t add you to a past Dean’s List either. SAS also has a route for nontraditional students and approved reduced loads: a 3.500 counted over every 12 letter-graded credits instead of each semester.

Academic warning, probation and suspension

Standing rules differ more than any other part of a Rutgers GPA. At SAS, the semester GPA decides warning and probation, and the cumulative GPA decides suspension.

• Academic warning: a semester under 2.000 for the first time, or straight after a semester at 2.000 or higher. You can register for 16 credits at most.
• Academic probation: a semester under 2.000 for two or more semesters in a row. You’re limited to 16 credits and have to meet an academic advisor.
• Back to satisfactory standing: any semester GPA of 2.000 or higher.

Each spring, SAS checks your cumulative GPA against a line that rises as you go:

Semesters at other colleges count toward the number, while winter and summer sessions don’t. SAS suspends only students who’ve had at least one semester of academic warning, so no one is suspended after a first semester, and missing the line again after a suspension can mean dismissal. Summer courses at Rutgers–New Brunswick can lift you back over the line before a suspension takes effect.

Other schools

• SEBS uses semester GPA bands as guidelines: 1.800 to 1.999 for warning, 1.501 to 1.799 for probation, and dismissal at 1.500 or lower after a semester of probation. You stay on probation until your cumulative GPA reaches 2.000.
• Engineering reviews every student whose semester, cumulative or major GPA is 2.0 or lower after a fall or spring semester, and decides on warning, probation or dismissal case by case.
• Business School, New Brunswick puts you on probation when your cumulative GPA or your business GPA falls under 2.5, and dismisses you if either one drops under 2.0 while you’re on probation.
• Pharmacy expects 2.8 in your semester and cumulative GPAs in the two pre-professional years and 2.5 in the professional years, with no D or F grades.
• Mason Gross gives a warning for a semester under 2.0 but above 1.8 and probation under 1.8. A semester at 1.4 or lower can bring dismissal at the end of the year, as can a cumulative GPA under 1.6, 1.8, 2.0 or 2.0 in your first to fourth years.
• Newark puts you on probation automatically when your cumulative GPA is under 2.000 or a semester is under 1.750. Two semesters in a row under 2.000 mean a one-semester suspension, and a third, with a cumulative GPA under 2.000, means a year’s dismissal if you were on probation the semester before.
• Camden’s College of Arts and Sciences asks for a 2.0 cumulative GPA to graduate. Its 2026–27 catalog doesn’t spell out probation lines, so the calculator checks only the 2.0.

When you’re under 2.000, the calculator also shows how many grade points you’re short. An A is worth 2 points a credit more than a C and a B is worth 1 more, so closing a 6-point gap takes one 3-credit A, or six credits of B, over and above C work.

Graduating with Latin honors at Rutgers

SAS, SEBS, the Business School, Mason Gross and Newark award Latin honors on your cumulative GPA with the same three lines. Pharmacy, Engineering and Camden use their own.

Engineering uses different names: Honors at 3.200, High Honors at 3.400 and Highest Honors at 3.650, on your cumulative GPA at the end of the senior year. Pharmacy’s honors count only courses completed at Rutgers.

None of these averages gets rounded up. At SAS, a 3.8499 graduates magna cum laude, one ten-thousandth short of summa, and Camden puts it simply: GPAs are precise and no rounding is done. That’s why the calculator cuts instead of rounding. Departmental honors, the SAS Honors Program and honor societies such as Phi Beta Kappa have separate requirements.

Raising your Rutgers GPA

A retake under your school’s repeat rule usually moves your GPA more than a new course does. Say you’re at SAS with 108 grade points on 45 credits, a 2.400, and one of those courses was a 3-credit D. Retake it for a B and the D’s 3 points come out while the B’s 9 go in: 114 ÷ 45 = 2.533. Take a new 3-credit course for a B instead and you get 117 ÷ 48 = 2.437.

For a target, work backward from the credits you’ll have. With a 2.800 on 60 credits (168 grade points), reaching a 3.000 after 15 more credits takes 225 points in all, so you’d need 57 points from those 15 credits, a 3.800 semester. Enter your target and next term’s credits in the calculator to get the exact number.

Pass/No Credit can protect your GPA but never raise it, since a P earns credits without grade points. At SAS it’s limited anyway: two courses at most, 8 credits, one a semester, once you have 90 credits, and never for your major, minor or the SAS Core. Withdrawing leaves a W, which costs you the credits but not the GPA.

Rutgers GPA requirements

• A cumulative GPA of 2.000 to graduate from SAS, SEBS and the Business School, and 2.000 in both your cumulative and major GPAs from Engineering, and 2.0 from Camden’s College of Arts and Sciences.
• A cumulative GPA of 2.0 to stay in good scholastic standing at Rutgers–Newark.
• A 2.5 cumulative GPA and a 2.5 business GPA to stay off probation at the Business School in New Brunswick.
• A 3.25 overall GPA and a 3.25 every semester to stay in good standing in the Honors College at New Brunswick, along with a B or better in every honors course.
• A cumulative GPA of 1.40 through your first 30 completed credits, 1.70 through 60 and 2.00 after that to keep your eligibility for federal, state or Rutgers financial aid. This satisfactory academic progress check runs at the end of each spring and also asks you to complete 50 to 75 percent of the credits you attempt.

GPA to get into Rutgers

Rutgers reviews each application as a whole, weighing your GPA with the rest of your record, and it publishes ranges rather than cutoffs. These are the middle 50 percent of grade-point averages for the students it admitted for fall 2026:

A quarter of admitted students were above each range and a quarter below it. For transfers, Admissions weighs your cumulative college GPA, grade trends and the credits you’ve completed, and Rutgers–Camden sets no minimum GPA to apply. Once you’re admitted, your old college’s GPA stays behind and your Rutgers GPA starts with your first Rutgers grade.

New Brunswick, Newark and Camden: what changes

All three campuses use the same letter grades and grade points, so the semester and cumulative GPA math is identical wherever you study. The rules built on top of it are what change. Newark counts NJIT exchange courses and takes the lower grade out on a repeat, Camden’s honors lines run higher at the top, and in New Brunswick each school has its own set. When the school picker doesn’t list yours, choose “Another school (scale only)” and check your school’s own section of the Rutgers catalog for the rest.

How this calculator works

This Rutgers GPA calculator applies the basic grading scale in Rutgers University Policy 10.2.2 and the rules each school prints in the 2026–2027 undergraduate catalogs for New Brunswick, Newark and Camden: which grades count, the credit prefixes, the repeat rules and their limits, the Dean’s List lines, academic standing and graduation honors. Each GPA calculation counts grade points and credits exactly and cuts the result at the third decimal, the way Rutgers treats averages for honors.

It handles one school’s rules at a time and assumes you haven’t used any repeats yet. For a temporary grade such as a TB+, enter its letter, which is what it turns into if the work isn’t finished, and leave a TZ or NG as it is until it’s resolved. The calculator runs in your browser and keeps nothing you enter. Calculate Your Grade isn’t connected with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, in any way, so your transcript and your dean’s office have the final word.

Sources

• Rutgers University Policy 10.2.2: Grades and Symbols
• Rutgers–New Brunswick Undergraduate Catalog 2026–2027, School of Arts and Sciences: Grades and Records, Registration and Course Information, Academic Standing, Poor Academic Performance and Graduation
• SEBS (same catalog): Scholastic Standing, Registration and Course Information and Graduation
• Engineering (same catalog): Scholastic Standing and Degree Requirements
• Business School (same catalog): Registration, Academic Standing Policy and Graduation
• Pharmacy (same catalog): Scholastic Standing and Graduation
• Mason Gross (same catalog): Scholastic Standing, Registration and Course Information and Graduation
• Honors College (same catalog): Academic Standing
• Rutgers–Newark Undergraduate Catalog 2026–2027: Grades and Records, Scholastic Standing and NCAS Honors and Awards
• Rutgers–Camden Undergraduate Catalog 2026–2027: Graduation Requirements, Graduation with Honors, Dean’s List and the School of Business–Camden Repeated Course Policy
• Rutgers Undergraduate Admissions: How We Make Decisions, with the fall 2026 admitted student profiles
• Rutgers Financial Services: Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP)
• LSAC: Transcript Summarization
• AAMC (AMCAS): Grades Factored Into AMCAS GPA Calculations and Course Classification Guide
• Liaison (AACOMAS): Calculating Your AACOMAS GPAs and AACOMAS Grade Values Chart

Built and maintained by Mahmudul, the creator of Calculate Your Grade. Rutgers rules checked against the 2026–2027 undergraduate catalogs in October 2026.

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