UT GPA Calculator for UT Austin

UT Austin GPA rules at a glance

• Twelve letter grades count, from an A at 4.00 down to a D- at 0.67 and an F at 0.00. There’s no A+, so no course can pull your GPA above 4.00.
• Only letter grades you earn at UT Austin go into your GPA. Transfer grades, credit by exam and pass/fail credit (CR) add hours but no grade points.
• Retaking a course doesn’t erase the first grade. Every attempt stays in the average.
• A cumulative GPA under 2.00 means academic warning, and the GPA that leads to dismissal once you’re on warning depends on your total college hours.
• The University Honors list asks for grade points as well as a GPA: at least 45 of them and a 3.50 on a full load in a fall or spring semester.

How to use the UT GPA calculator

When the page loads, this UT Austin GPA calculator already holds an example: a 3.21 UT GPA over 45 GPA hours, with Calculus I, Rhetoric and Writing, Intro to Psychology and U.S. History this semester and an elective taken pass/fail. Swap in your own courses.

1. Add this semester’s courses. Type each course’s credit hours, which UT lists as semester hours, and pick the grade you got or expect. Every letter shows its UT grade points, and the symbols that don’t count, such as CR, Q and W, sit in a group of their own.
2. Add your record so far. This part is optional: enter your current UT GPA with your GPA hours, or your total grade points if you have them, because grade points give the exact result. Leave it blank to see one semester on its own.
3. Add your total college hours if you’re near 2.00. Count transfer and exam credit and this semester’s courses. The number doesn’t change your GPA; it picks the dismissal line that applies to you.
4. Pick the term and your college. UT names the University Honors list only after fall and spring semesters, and your college sets the GPA you need to graduate with honors.
5. Plan ahead. Type the cumulative GPA you want and how many hours you expect to take next semester.

You get your semester GPA and your cumulative GPA to two decimals, with the four-decimal figure underneath and the grade points and GPA hours behind them. Below those come your standing, the two honors checks and the semester GPA your target calls for. The “What each course adds” panel lists the grade points course by course.

Where to find your UT GPA and GPA hours

Sign in to UT Direct with your UT EID and open your Academic Summary. It lists your cumulative GPA for UT Austin coursework and splits it into a lower-division and an upper-division GPA. GPA hours are only the UT Austin courses that received a letter grade, so leave out transfer hours, exam credit and CR courses when you count them. If you know your GPA but not your grade points, multiply the two numbers you do have: a 3.40 on 60 GPA hours is 204.00 grade points.

The UT Austin grading scale

The UT GPA scale tops out at 4.00 and includes pluses and minuses. Each plus or minus moves the value a third of a point from the plain letter, so an A- is 3.67 and a B+ is 3.33. Undergraduate and graduate courses use the same grade points.

An undergraduate needs at least a D- to get credit for a course. A graduate student needs at least a C for a course to go into the Program of Work for a graduate degree.

Your record can also show symbols instead of grades. None of them carries grade points, so none of them changes your GPA:

How to calculate your UT Austin GPA

Every UT GPA is calculated the same way: multiply each course’s grade points by its semester hours, total those products, then divide by the hours that carried a letter grade.

The catalog’s section on computing the grade point average sets out what goes in: every course taken at UT Austin with a letter grade, including correspondence and extension courses, and nothing recorded as I, Q, W, X, S, U or CR.

Worked example

Here is the semester the calculator starts with:

That gives 45.67 ÷ 13 = 3.5130, a 3.51 for the semester. The pass/fail elective adds 3 hours toward the degree, but its CR has no grade points, so it stays out of both totals.

To fold the semester into your record, add its grade points and hours to the ones you already have. A 3.21 on 45 GPA hours is 144.45 grade points, so the new cumulative GPA is (144.45 + 45.67) ÷ (45 + 13) = 190.12 ÷ 58 = 3.2779, which shows as 3.27.

Why the calculator shows four decimals

Some of UT Austin’s honors lines are only two thousandths apart, such as 3.665 and 3.667, and a GPA rounded to two decimals can’t be compared with them. The catalog doesn’t publish a rounding rule, so this calculator cuts the figure off at four decimals and never rounds up: a 3.4999 stays under a 3.50. If you’re within a few thousandths of a line, the GPA on your Academic Summary is the one that counts.

Semester, cumulative, upper-division and major GPA

Your semester GPA covers one term. Your cumulative GPA is your overall GPA: it covers every UT Austin course with a letter grade, and it’s the figure behind academic warning, dismissal and graduation honors. The Academic Summary also gives you a lower-division and an upper-division GPA. A major GPA is narrower again, because each college decides which courses go into it. Your degree audit or your college’s advising office can tell you which ones. To estimate it here, enter only those courses and either leave the record blank or fill it in with your major GPA and hours so far.

What counts in your UT GPA, and what doesn’t

Only UT Austin courses with a letter grade go into the average. Everything else, from transfer work to a Q-drop, either adds hours without grade points or leaves no mark at all.

Transfer credit and credit by exam

Grades from another college never enter your UT Austin GPA, even when the hours transfer. Those hours still count toward your total college hours, which matter for the dismissal lines below. Credit by exam has been recorded only as CR since September 15, 2006, so AP, IB or departmental exam credit adds hours without touching your GPA. Some graduate and professional schools recalculate a GPA across every college you attended. To see that number, use the final GPA calculator, which combines several schools’ grades into one figure.

Repeated courses

UT Austin has no grade replacement. If you retake a course, the new grade and its hours join your GPA and the earlier ones stay, so a D on the first attempt and a B on the second both count. The last grade assigned becomes the official grade for the course, but it doesn’t remove the first from the average. Some colleges also limit retakes. Students in the McCombs School of Business, the Moody College of Communication, the Cockrell School of Engineering, the College of Liberal Arts, the College of Natural Sciences, the School of Nursing and the College of Pharmacy may not repeat for credit a course in which they earned a C- or better.

Pass/fail courses

A D- or better in a pass/fail course earns CR, which stays out of your GPA. A failing grade doesn’t: it’s recorded as an F and counts like any other F, so enter it as an F in the calculator. Undergraduates can take a course pass/fail only after earning 30 hours of college credit, and no more than two such courses a semester. Each college caps the total as well. Liberal Arts students and those pursuing a BA in Natural Sciences may take up to 16 hours of electives pass/fail, Natural Sciences students in a BS or BSA up to six, Plan II students up to 19, and students in most other colleges up to five one-semester courses.

Q-drops, withdrawals and incompletes

A Q marks a course you dropped without academic penalty after the twelfth class day of a fall or spring semester. Drops before that leave no trace on your record. Neither kind affects your GPA. Under Texas Education Code 51.907, students who first entered a Texas public college or university in fall 2007 or later may drop no more than six classes for academic reasons.

A W means you withdrew from the University for that semester, and it has no grade points either. An X is a temporary delay. For an undergraduate it turns into an F if the work isn’t finished and graded by the grade-reporting deadline of the next fall or spring semester, so an open X can still cost you. For a graduate student an unfinished X becomes a permanent I, which never counts.

The GPA you need next semester

The more GPA hours you have, the less one semester can move your cumulative GPA. With 30 GPA hours behind you, a 15-hour semester makes up a third of your new record. With 90, it’s a seventh. The calculator’s plan line works out the lowest semester GPA that reaches your target, and it tells you when even straight A’s on the hours you entered won’t get you there.

In the default example, reaching a 3.30 cumulative GPA after a 15-hour semester takes 3.30 × 73 = 240.90 grade points in total. The record holds 190.12, so the next semester has to supply 50.78 grade points, which is a 3.39 GPA on 15 hours.

Academic warning and dismissal at UT Austin

UT Austin sets your academic standing when grades are reported at the end of each fall, spring and summer term. A cumulative GPA below 2.00 places you on academic warning, UT’s term for what many colleges call probation. Once you’re on warning, the GPA that leads to dismissal depends on your total college hours, and those include transfer hours even though transfer grades stay out of your GPA:

The table comes with a few more rules:

• A student on warning must take at least 12 hours in a fall or spring semester unless their dean approves a lighter load in writing beforehand. Summer has no minimum.
• No one is dismissed at the end of a summer term unless their dean set that condition in advance.
• Withdrawing from the University after the first four weeks of a fall or spring semester while on warning also leads to dismissal, unless the dean approves it.
• A beginning freshman or transfer student who fails 12 or more hours in a fall or spring semester can be dismissed without a warning period.

A first dismissal lasts one fall or spring semester, plus any summer in between. A second lasts three calendar years, and readmission needs the dean’s approval. A student dismissed a third time isn’t readmitted. Anyone who returns after a dismissal comes back on warning.

Your financial aid eligibility rests on a separate test, satisfactory academic progress. Undergraduates need a cumulative UT GPA of at least 2.00 and graduate students 3.00, and everyone has to complete at least 67% of the hours they attempt.

Climbing back to 2.00

Every hour of A earns 2 more grade points than a C, and every hour of B earns 1 more. So a student with a 1.85 on 40 GPA hours, 6 grade points short of a 2.00, needs 3 hours of A, or 6 hours of B, on top of C-level work in everything else. Whenever your GPA is under 2.00, the result box shows how many grade points you’re missing.

University Honors, College Scholars and graduating with honors

UT Austin recognizes high grades at three points: after a strong fall or spring semester, as a College Scholar once you’ve completed 60 hours, and when you graduate.

The University Honors list

UT Austin’s semester honors list is called University Honors, and it’s recorded on your official transcript. It looks at one fall or spring semester on its own and has four conditions: at least 45 grade points, a GPA of at least 3.50 on courses completed in residence, a full course load, and no incomplete (an X). Twelve hours is a full-time load for an undergraduate in a fall or spring semester.

The grade-point condition is the one people miss. Twelve hours of straight A- grades give a 3.67 GPA but only 44.04 grade points, so they fall short of the list. Thirteen hours with the same grades reach 47.71 and qualify. The calculator checks all four conditions for the semester you enter.

College Scholars and Distinguished College Scholars

To be named a College Scholar you need at least 30 semester hours in residence at UT Austin, at least 60 hours of college work in total (transferred work and credit by exam count here), a place in the top 20 percent of your class in your college, and an in-residence GPA of at least 3.50. The title of Distinguished College Scholar goes to the eligible student with the highest in-residence GPA in each class of each college and to the other eligible students in the top 4 percent.

Graduating with University honors

Graduation honors come in three levels (honors, high honors and highest honors), and they’re based on all the grades you earned in residence. You need at least 60 semester hours at UT Austin. Pass/fail courses count toward those hours, but only letter grades, including an F in a pass/fail course, go into the honors GPA. Each college sets its own minimum for each level, listed here as honors / high honors / highest honors:

These are only minimums. In a May graduating class, no more than 20 percent of a college’s graduates receive honors, no more than 10 percent receive high or highest honors, and no more than 4 percent receive highest honors, so the GPA you actually need can be higher. The percentage limits don’t apply to August and December graduates. Where all three minimums are the same, your rank in the class decides the level. In the College of Fine Arts the ranking applies every semester: you have to rank within the stated percentage of the students graduating from your academic unit that semester. Cockrell and Fine Arts students can receive honors on only one bachelor’s degree.

A few honor societies look at UT GPAs too. Alpha Lambda Delta and Phi Eta Sigma ask for a 3.50 after at least 12 hours in your first semester, and early membership in Phi Beta Kappa takes a 4.00 with at least 60 hours in residence.

Graduate and law students

Graduate students use the same grade points, but their GPA covers different courses. It includes upper-division and graduate courses with a letter grade taken while enrolled in Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies. It leaves out credit by exam, courses from other institutions, courses taken at UT Austin before graduate enrollment, and the symbols Q, W, X, I, CR and NC. A graduate GPA under 3.00 brings a warning, and the student has to reach 3.00 in the next semester they’re enrolled or face dismissal.

The School of Law grades on its own scale, with an A+ at 4.30, a D at 1.70 and an F at 1.30, and the registrar doesn’t calculate an official GPA for law students. This calculator uses the University’s scale, so law students should go by the law school’s own records.

GPA requirements for UT Austin admission

UT Austin doesn’t require a minimum GPA for freshman admission. Texas students who finish in the top 5% of their high school class are admitted automatically, and that cutoff applies to everyone applying for summer 2026 through spring 2028. Everyone else goes through a holistic review of class rank, the courses they took, test scores, essays and activities, along with how competitive their chosen major is. No grade or rank short of the automatic cutoff guarantees a place.

There’s no official average GPA to aim for, either. UT Austin’s 2025-26 Common Data Set leaves its high school GPA questions blank, and it marks both GPA and class rank as factors it considers rather than ones it rates as important. What it does publish is how many get in: 20,154 of 90,690 first-year applicants for fall 2025, about 22%. Texas residents were admitted at 36%, out-of-state applicants at under 8%.

Nothing UT Austin publishes says whether it reads weighted or unweighted GPAs, or how it would recalculate high school grades. Freshman applicants send a transcript through the end of junior year along with their class rank and class size, and for Texas students it’s the rank that settles automatic admission.

Transfer GPA for admission

Transfer applicants are judged on an admission GPA that the Office of Admissions works out itself, and it can come out lower than the GPA on your transcript because of how it treats your grades:

• Every transferable course counts, whether you passed, failed or repeated it.
• A D+, D, D- or F earns no transfer credit but still goes into the average.
• Each attempt at a repeated course counts.
• An A+ earns the same 4.00 as an A.
• Only developmental courses are left out.

None of those grades carry over into your UT GPA once you enroll, because UT Austin doesn’t average in grades from other schools.

You need at least 24 transferable hours to apply, and UT recommends 30. Regular transfer review sets no minimum GPA; it looks for grades that are trending up and for the courses your major requires. Automatic transfer admission does set one, among several conditions. You qualify only if you:

• graduated from a Texas high school in 2008 or later and qualified for automatic freshman admission under Texas law
• have attended only a Texas community or junior college since high school
• have finished the core curriculum
• have a cumulative GPA of at least 2.5
• apply within four years of graduating from high school

How this calculator works

This UT grade calculator applies the grading rules in UT Austin’s 2026-27 General Information Catalog: the grade points from A to F, the symbols left out of the GPA, the academic warning and dismissal table, the University Honors conditions and each college’s graduation honors minimums. During the GPA calculation it keeps grade points and hours as whole numbers of hundredths, so nothing gets rounded along the way, and it cuts the final GPA off at four decimals without rounding up. Your total college hours only set the dismissal line, and your college only sets the graduation honors check.

Everything runs in your browser, and nothing you type is sent or stored. Calculate Your Grade has no connection to The University of Texas at Austin, and your Academic Summary and your dean’s office have the final word. The calculator doesn’t cover law school grades, college-specific major GPA rules or the class-rank limits behind College Scholars and graduation honors.

Sources

• The University of Texas at Austin, General Information Catalog 2026-27: Grading, including pass/fail, repeated courses and incompletes
• The University of Texas at Austin, General Information Catalog 2026-27: Grade Point Average (GPA) Computation
• The University of Texas at Austin, General Information Catalog 2026-27: Academic warning and dismissal
• The University of Texas at Austin, General Information Catalog 2026-27: Honors
• The University of Texas at Austin, General Information Catalog 2026-27: Adding and dropping classes and Quantity of work rule
• The University of Texas at Austin, Undergraduate Catalog: Graduation
• Texas One Stop: View Academic Summary
• Texas Law: Grading policies
• The University of Texas at Austin, Office of Admissions: Review and decision process
• The University of Texas at Austin, General Information Catalog 2026-27: Undergraduate admission
• The University of Texas at Austin, Institutional Reporting: Common Data Set 2025-26
• The University of Texas at Austin, Office of Scholarships and Financial Aid: UT financial aid policy

Built and maintained by Mahmudul, the creator of Calculate Your Grade. UT Austin rules checked against the 2026-27 General Information Catalog in October 2026.

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