UF GPA Calculator

How to use the UF GPA calculator

This University of Florida GPA calculator opens with an example already filled in: a student with a 3.10 UF GPA on 45 credits who is taking calculus, chemistry with a lab, a writing course and an S/U elective this semester. Replace it with your own courses.

1. Add this term’s courses. Enter each course’s credit hours and pick its grade. The grade list shows UF’s points beside every letter, and the grades that don’t count in the GPA, such as S, U and W, sit in their own group at the bottom.
2. Add your UF record so far. This is optional. Enter your UF GPA and the credits it’s based on, and the calculator works out your new cumulative GPA. If your transcript gives your total grade points, put those in instead for an exact figure.
3. Pick the term and your college. Every college sets its own Dean’s List GPA, and some ask for fewer credits in Summer.
4. Read the result. You get your term GPA and cumulative GPA as UF would show them, your standing, your deficit points, and whether the term would make the Dean’s List or the President’s Honor Roll.

Retaking a course? Enter the new attempt as its own row. UF counts every grade you earn in a course, so the first attempt stays in your record and the new one is added on top.

The UF grading scale

The UF GPA scale runs on 4.0 points with plus and minus letter grades. An A, the highest grade, is worth 4.0 grade points per credit, an A- is worth 3.67 and a B+ is worth 3.33. There is no A+, and the failing grade is an E rather than an F.

Some grades earn no points. A few of them still pull your GPA down, because their credits stay in the count. The rest are left out of the GPA altogether.

UF’s catalog gives grade points only. It doesn’t say what percentage earns an A, so check your syllabus for the cut-offs in each course.

Why some sites still show B+ as 3.5

UF changed its scale on May 11, 2009. Before that date there were no minus grades, and the plus grades sat halfway between letters. The catalog still prints the old values for credit earned before the change:

That older table is what some GPA calculators and AI answers still quote as UF’s scale. It has been out of date for more than 17 years. The calculator above uses the current values. If you’re coming back to UF with courses from before May 2009, use the grade points on your transcript for those courses by entering them as your record so far.

How to calculate your UF GPA

To work out your UF grade point average by hand, do what UF does: multiply each grade’s points by the course’s credits, add up the results, and divide by the credits that count in the GPA. S and U grades are left out of both totals. As a formula:

Then comes the step most calculators skip. UF displays the GPA to two decimal places and doesn’t round up. The catalog’s own example is a 3.248, which is shown as 3.24, not 3.25. On most days that’s a hundredth of a point nobody notices, but it decides cases that sit right on a line, like a 3.495 for a Dean’s List that asks for 3.50.

Worked example

Here is the term the calculator loads with:

Each course’s points are its credits times the grade’s value, so Calculus 2 is 4 × 3.33 = 13.32. The four graded courses add up to 37.33 grade points on 11 credits. Divide one by the other and you get 3.3936, which UF shows as a 3.39 term GPA. The S/U elective still counts toward the student’s degree credits, but it doesn’t touch the GPA.

Now the cumulative GPA. A 3.10 on 45 credits is 139.5 grade points. Add this term’s 37.33 and you have 176.83 grade points on 56 credits, which comes to 3.1576. UF shows that as 3.15. A calculator that rounds would say 3.16.

One caution about the record-so-far boxes: the GPA on your transcript has already been cut to two decimals, so multiplying it by your credits can be a few hundredths of a grade point off. Your total grade points, where your transcript shows them, give the exact answer.

The GPA you need next term

To find the term GPA you need to reach a target GPA, run the same formula backward: multiply the target by your total credits after the term, subtract the grade points you already have, and divide by the term’s credits.

Take the record the calculator loads with, a 3.10 on 45 credits, which is 139.5 grade points. To finish a 15-credit term on a 3.25, you need 3.25 × 60 = 195 grade points in total, so 55.5 from the term, and 55.5 ÷ 15 is a 3.70 term GPA. Aim for the exact figure, because UF cuts instead of rounding: a cumulative 3.2499 still shows as 3.24. If the answer comes out above 4.00, one term can’t get you there. The deficit points below are the same sum with the target set at 2.00.

Grades and rules that change a UF GPA

S/U courses

An S means a C or better, and S/U grades carry no grade points, so they’re not part of your GPA. An S still counts as credit toward your degree. The rules for taking a course S/U are strict: one course per term (not counting courses only offered S/U), electives only, and you have to be in good standing and not on academic probation. General education and Writing Requirement courses can’t be taken S/U, and once the option is approved, the grade can’t be changed back to a letter. Other schools may read a U as a failing grade.

Withdrawals and the two-drop rule

A course you drop after drop/add and before the withdrawal deadline shows a W, which doesn’t count in the GPA. You only get two of those drops in your first 60 credits attempted at UF, so they’re worth saving. UF no longer issues WF grades, but an old WF on a transcript still counts as 0 points.

Repeated courses

UF has no grade forgiveness. A repeated course is counted in your GPA as many times as its grades are recorded, though you only earn its credits once. So a D followed by a B counts as both a D and a B.

You can’t repeat a course after earning a C or higher unless your college approves a petition. And if you came in with AP or IB credit and then take and pass the same course at UF, the UF grade counts and the exam credit is removed.

Incompletes and missing grades

An I* or N* is the first-term version of an incomplete or a missing grade, and it isn’t counted against you at first. If it hasn’t been changed after 150 days, it becomes a failing grade and is counted in your GPA. Students who are graduating get the I or NG directly, without the grace period.

Transfer grades

Grades from other colleges are not averaged into your UF GPA. That includes a course you take at another school and then repeat at UF, or the other way round: only the UF grade is computed.

Critical tracking

Your major runs its own checks during your first five semesters. These critical-tracking criteria usually include a minimum GPA, a set of courses toward the major and a minimum GPA in those critical-tracking courses. Depending on the program, the first of those is set on your UF GPA or on your overall GPA, which includes transfer work. Each major lists them on its Critical Tracking tab in the catalog, and your degree audit shows whether you’re on track. Two terms off track in a row and you’ll have to change to a major that fits better. To estimate a tracking GPA, enter only your critical-tracking courses and leave your record so far blank.

Deficit points, probation and dismissal

Below a 2.00 cumulative UF GPA, you can be placed on academic probation. Probation lasts until your UF GPA is back to 2.00 or higher. Your college can also put you on its own probation if you aren’t making normal progress in your degree program. The same 2.00 is the minimum for graduation: UF requires a cumulative UF GPA of at least 2.0 to award an undergraduate degree.

Deficit points measure how far you are below that line. Every credit in your GPA needs 2 grade points to hold a C average, so your deficit is twice your GPA credits minus your grade points, if that’s above zero. The number is a quick way to see how much ground there is to make up.

Dismissal depends on how many UF credits you have. The catalog lists the GPA at or below which a student is dismissed:

There’s no dismissal line below 8 credits. The calculator holds the catalog’s full table, one row for every credit count from 1 to 116, and shows the line for yours along with your academic standing. We checked all 116 rows, and each one is the GPA at which a student is 15 grade points short of a C average, cut to two decimals. UF cumulative credits here leave out S/U credits, W credits and credits that don’t count because of repeat or non-degree rules.

Financial aid runs its own check. UF’s Satisfactory Academic Progress policy asks undergraduates for a cumulative 2.0 UF GPA and for completing at least 67 percent of the credits they attempt. W, U and S/U courses leave your GPA alone, but they still count as attempted credits for that check. Bright Futures and scholarships from outside UF set their own requirements.

How many grade points it takes to get back to 2.00

Take a student with a 1.70 on 40 credits. That’s 68 grade points against the 80 a C average needs, so 12 deficit points. Each credit of A earns 2 points more than a C, and each credit of B earns 1 more. Twelve credits of B close the gap exactly: 68 plus 36 is 104 grade points on 52 credits, a 2.00. Six credits of A and six of C would do the same.

Dean’s List, President’s Honor Roll and Latin honors

Each college sets its own Dean’s List eligibility rules. These are the ones UF’s catalog lists:

A few rules apply to every college. S/U and internship courses aren’t counted in the Dean’s List GPA, and neither are I, NG, I* or N* grades. The GPA isn’t rounded, so a 3.495 is a 3.49. You can earn the Dean’s List only once for the whole summer.

The President’s Honor Roll is the same for everyone: a perfect 4.0 on at least 15 credits of graded coursework in Fall or Spring, or at least 12 credits in Summer, with no S/U. It’s noted on your transcript.

Latin honors

UF graduates with honors at three levels: cum laude, magna cum laude and summa cum laude. Each college, and sometimes each major, sets its own lines. Many base them on the GPA for UF courses taken after your first 60 credits, the upper-division GPA, while some use your major or core courses instead. In the College of the Arts, art and art history need a 3.5, a 3.75 or a 3.90, with a creative project or thesis for the top two. Agricultural and Life Sciences asks for 3.5, 3.75 and 3.85 on courses taken after 60 credits, with a research project or creative work and an honors thesis for the higher two. Transfer and S/U credits are left out, and the GPA isn’t rounded here either.

To check an upper-division GPA with the calculator, enter only the UF courses you took after your first 60 credits and leave your record so far blank.

How UF recalculates a high school GPA for admission

If you’re applying to UF as a freshman, UF Admissions works out its own GPA from your transcript: a core, weighted GPA on a 4.0 scale, built from your academic courses in English, math, natural science, social science and foreign language. UF requires 16 units in those subjects: four years of English, four of math at Algebra 1 or above, three of natural science with two lab courses, three of social science and two sequential years of a foreign language.

Advanced courses get extra weight. AP, IB and AICE classes, and dual-enrollment courses in core subjects, add 1.0, so an A is worth 5.0. Honors, pre-AP, pre-IB and pre-AICE classes add 0.5, so an A is worth 4.5.

For the class of 2030, the middle half of admitted students had a recalculated GPA of 4.5 to 4.7, an ACT of 32 to 35 and an SAT of 1420 to 1520, according to UF Admissions as of July 2026. Those ranges are not minimums. The minimum UF lists is a C average in your academic core, computed by UF across every school you’ve attended, and dual-enrollment students need at least a 2.0 at each institution.

UF doesn’t publish how it converts plus and minus high school grades, so this page doesn’t offer an admissions recalculator that would have to guess. To see how honors and AP weighting changes a high school GPA, use the GPA calculator with AP classes.

How this calculator works

This UF grade calculator follows the University of Florida Undergraduate Catalog for 2026-27. The grade points, the grades that are and aren’t counted, the two-decimal rule, the dismissal table and the Dean’s List and President’s Honor Roll rules all come from it. The arithmetic runs on whole numbers, hundredths of a grade point times tenths of a credit, so the two-decimal cut is exact, with no rounding errors along the way.

Everything runs in your browser, and nothing you type is sent or stored. The calculator isn’t made by or affiliated with the University of Florida. Your official transcript and your college have the final word.

Sources

• University of Florida, Undergraduate Catalog 2026-27: Grades and Grading Policies
• University of Florida, Undergraduate Catalog 2026-27: Academic Progress Policies
• University of Florida, Undergraduate Catalog 2026-27: Dropping Courses and Withdrawals
• University of Florida, Undergraduate Catalog 2026-27: Academic Honors
• UF Admissions, Our Decision Process and Freshman Requirements
• UF Office of Student Financial Aid and Scholarships, Satisfactory Academic Progress Policy
• University of Florida, Undergraduate Catalog 2026-27: Academic Advising
• University of Florida, Graduate Catalog: Regulations

Built and maintained by Mahmudul, the creator of Calculate Your Grade. UF rules checked against the 2026-27 catalog in October 2026.

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