UVA GPA Calculator

UVA GPA rules at a glance

• UVA grades on a 4.0 scale with plus and minus steps. An A+ and an A both earn 4.0 grade points, an A- 3.7, a B+ 3.3, a B 3.0, a B- 2.7, a C+ 2.3, a C 2.0, a C- 1.7, a D+ 1.3, a D 1.0, a D- 0.7 and an F 0.0.
• Your GPA is your total grade points divided by your GPA credits. An F counts in the GPA but earns no credit. CR, NC, S, U, W, AU, IN and NG stay out of it. Grades from other schools don’t count either; only the credits transfer.
• Retake a course you got a D+, D, D- or F in, and only the higher of the two grades counts in your GPA, for the first 9 credits you retake. Both attempts have to be UVA letter grades, and the retake has to be from Fall 2024 on, or from Fall 2025 on if you’re in the College of Arts & Sciences.
• The Dean’s List needs at least 15 graded credits in a semester and no F, NC or NG. The semester GPA line is 3.40 in Engineering, 3.50 in the College, 3.70 in Architecture, Batten, Nursing and the School of Education and Human Development, and 3.75 in McIntire and Data Science.
• In the College, good academic standing takes a semester GPA of at least 1.800 on 12 or more earned credits, with no more than one grade of C- or below.
• The College awards a degree “with distinction” at a cumulative 3.600, and Engineering awards distinction from 3.400, high distinction from 3.600 and highest distinction from 3.800. UVA doesn’t use Latin honors.
• Every UVA bachelor’s degree needs a GPA of at least 2.000 in the courses required to graduate.

How to use the UVA GPA calculator

Use it as a UVA grade calculator for your whole semester. It takes five steps.

1. Pick your school. The school sets the retake options, the Dean’s List line, the honors levels and the standing rules the calculator checks.
2. Enter your courses. Give each one its credits and the grade you earned or expect. A Credit/No Credit course goes in as CR or NC, and it won’t touch your GPA.
3. Mark any retakes. In the Retake box, pick the grade you had the first time. Leave it on No retake for a course you’re taking for the first time, or one you repeated before your school’s start term.
4. Add your record so far. It’s optional. With your UVA GPA and the credits behind it, the tool becomes a UVA cumulative GPA calculator and can place you on your school’s graduation honors ladder.
5. Read the results. You get the semester and cumulative GPA to three decimals, a Dean’s List check, your standing, your honors band and, if you enter a target, the GPA you need next term to reach it.

A worked example

The calculator opens with this semester filled in, for a College student with a 3.120 GPA on 30 credits:

The semester GPA is 54.3 ÷ 16 = 3.394. For the cumulative GPA, the old D in Spanish comes out of the record because the new B is higher. Its 3 credits and 3.0 grade points leave, so the total becomes (93.6 − 3.0 + 54.3) ÷ (30 − 3 + 16) = 144.9 ÷ 43 = 3.370.

A 3.394 misses the College’s 3.50 Dean’s List line. Change Calculus I to an A- and the semester rises to 55.9 ÷ 16 = 3.494, which is still short in the College but clears the 3.40 line Engineering uses. One semester, two verdicts, which is why the calculator asks for your school first.

Where to find your credits and GPA in SIS

Open your unofficial transcript in SIS. It lists every course with its credits and grade, and your cumulative GPA. Enter that GPA and its credits as your record so far, then add this semester’s courses. If you’ve retaken a course, check which grade SIS shows in the GPA before you mark it here. Academic warning shows up on your advising transcript in SIS, not on the official transcript.

UVA grading scale: grade points from A+ to F

UVA’s official grading scale is in the Undergraduate Record. It gives every letter a fixed value in grade points per credit, written to three decimals. The scale has been the same since Fall 1979.

An A+ is worth no more than an A, so a UVA GPA tops out at 4.000. Calculators that score an A+ as 4.33 will overstate a UVA transcript. The one exception at UVA is the School of Law, where an A+ carries 4.3, but this calculator is for undergraduates.

Grades that don’t count in your UVA GPA

These marks appear on the transcript but carry no grade points:

• CR (credit) and S (satisfactory) earn credit but stay out of the GPA.
• NC (no credit) and U (unsatisfactory) earn nothing and stay out of the GPA too. An NC still rules you out of that semester’s Dean’s List, and in the College both count as low grades for academic standing.
• W (withdrawal) and AU (audit) earn no credit and no grade points.
• IN (incomplete) and NG (no grade reported) aren’t final. An undergraduate incomplete turns into an F 35 days after the last day of exams unless your instructor allows longer; in the School of Architecture it’s five days unless an Incomplete Grade form is on file.

Percentages and letter grades

The Undergraduate Record’s grading table lists no percentages, so UVA has no university-wide rule that turns a 70% or a 90% into a letter. The cutoffs depend on the course. The School of Nursing is the one that publishes its own: A+ is 100, A 95–99, A- 90–94, B+ 87–89, B 83–86, B- 80–82, C+ 77–79, C 73–76, C- 70–72, D+ 67–69, D 63–66, D- 60–62 and F 59 or below.

So a 70% in a Nursing course is a C-, worth 1.7 grade points, not the 2.0 many people expect. If you need a letter on a different school’s scale, the letter grade GPA calculator converts percentages and letters side by side.

How UVA calculates your GPA

Your UVA GPA is calculated in two steps. Multiply each course’s grade value by its number of credits to get its grade points, which some schools call quality points. Then divide the total by the credits applied toward the GPA. A 4-credit B+ adds 13.2 grade points and a 1-credit A adds 4.0.

Only UVA courses with a letter grade enter the sum. A course you took Credit/No Credit adds credits to your degree but nothing to the GPA. An F does the opposite: its credits go into the bottom of the fraction with no points on top, which is why one F pulls a GPA down so hard.

Semester GPA and cumulative GPA

Your semester GPA uses one term’s courses; your cumulative GPA uses every graded UVA course you’ve taken, with the retake rule applied. The Dean’s List and most standing checks look at the semester GPA. Graduation honors and the 2.000 you need to graduate look at the cumulative GPA, and so does Architecture’s standing rule.

Three decimals, and results close to a line

UVA prints grade points to three decimals, and the calculator shows every GPA the same way, rounded to the nearest thousandth. UVA doesn’t publish whether SIS rounds or cuts a GPA at the third decimal, so if your result sits within a thousandth of a line such as 3.500 or 1.800, check SIS before you count on it.

Transfer, AP and test credit

Transfer credit from another institution brings credits, never grades: the Record says transferred grades “do not affect the student’s cumulative grade point average,” and a course only transfers with a C or better. AP and other test credit works the same way.

In the College and in Batten, repeating at UVA a course you already have test credit for drops the test credit, and the UVA grade goes into your GPA instead. Repeating a course you have transfer credit for works the other way in the College: the UVA grade stays out of the GPA. Data Science counts the UVA grade for courses transferred before you entered the school.

Major GPA

UVA doesn’t keep a major GPA for you, so working one out is up to you. The method is the same as for your overall GPA, using only the courses that count for the major and only letter grades. To get one here, enter only your major courses and leave the record blank. Check your department’s own list of what counts, since programs such as Batten set a minimum GPA in the courses required for the major.

Repeating a course at UVA

Since Fall 2024, UVA has let undergraduates replace a low grade in the GPA by taking the course again. The University Regulations in the Undergraduate Record set the rule:

• It covers courses where you earned a D+, D, D- or F.
• Both attempts remain on your transcript, but only the higher of the two grades counts in your GPA. If the second grade is lower, the first one stays in and the new one counts nowhere.
• It applies to the first 9 credits of courses you repeat. Past that, both grades count.
• Both the original and the repeat have to be completed at UVA and taken for a letter grade.
• The repeat has to be attempted in Fall 2024 or later. For College of Arts & Sciences students the start is Fall 2025.
• A repeat doesn’t change an academic warning or suspension you’ve already received, even though it changes the GPA behind it.

Retakes of courses you passed with a C- or better are left to each school, and the policies differ a lot:

The calculator builds each school’s options into the Retake box, and it treats all 9 of your retake credits as unused. Talk to your advising dean before you repeat a course: it can slow your progress to the degree, and not every repeat brings the GPA up.

Dean’s List GPA at UVA, school by school

There’s no single UVA Dean’s List. Each school publishes its own after every fall and spring semester, and the University sets the floor for all of them: at least 15 credits of graded coursework, with Credit/No Credit courses left out of the 15, and no F, NC or NG that semester. The GPA line is each school’s own:

Students on a reduced course load approved by the Student Disability Access Center qualify with 7 or more graded credits passed and their school’s GPA line. The calculator checks the standard 15-credit rule.

Academic warning and suspension at UVA

Academic warning is UVA’s name for what used to be called academic probation. You land on it after a fall or spring semester that misses your school’s standards for good academic standing, and two such semesters in a row usually lead to academic suspension. A first suspension keeps you away for at least a semester, often a full year, and a second one is final. Each school writes its own lines.

College of Arts & Sciences

A full-time College student is in good academic standing after a semester with:

• at least 12 credits earned,
• a semester GPA of at least 1.800, and
• no more than one final grade of C- or below.

Miss any of them and you’re on academic warning; your advising dean reaches out to build an academic success plan. A second semester in a row on warning makes you subject to suspension, and so does earning fewer than 9 grade points in any one semester. Part-time students only need the 1.800, and students on an approved reduced course load are judged without the 12-credit minimum.

One wording note: the 2026–2027 Undergraduate Record says “no more than one final grade of C- or below,” while the College’s own Good Academic Standing page says “no more than one grade below C-” and counts NC and U as grades below C-. The calculator follows the Record, so a C- counts as a low grade here; ask your advising dean if a single C- decides your semester.

Engineering and Applied Science

Engineering puts you on academic warning after any fall or spring semester with a GPA below 2.000, or after two failing grades in a required course. If you’re already on warning, a semester in which both your semester and cumulative GPA are below 2.000 leads to suspension, usually for one semester, and so do three failing grades in a required course. You can appeal a first suspension.

The other schools

The calculator checks the parts it can see from your grades: GPA lines, credit counts, low grades and grade points. It can’t see which of your courses are required nursing or Batten core courses, so read those parts of its verdict as a starting point.

Financial aid and your GPA

Keeping financial aid is a separate test. Federal aid, Virginia state grants and UVA’s own grants and scholarships all require satisfactory academic progress, which means meeting a GPA standard and a credit-hours standard. The University checks both at the end of every term.

Meeting them doesn’t protect your place, though. The Record warns that a student can qualify for aid and still not be allowed to keep enrolling because they fell out of good standing in their school. The calculator checks only your school’s standing, and the financial aid office publishes the aid numbers.

Graduating with distinction or honors at UVA

UVA marks high achievement on the diploma with distinction or honors, never with cum laude and its Latin relatives. The lines sit on your cumulative GPA at graduation:

Two programs work differently. In the College, a Distinguished Majors Program or the Honors program in Philosophy or Government needs a cumulative 3.400, and the level comes from your thesis committee or department. Nursing’s Distinguished Majors Program awards distinction at 3.400 and highest distinction at 3.750.

Credit/No Credit at UVA and your GPA

A course taken Credit/No Credit never changes your GPA. A CR adds credits toward the degree; an NC adds nothing. You pick the option when you register, and the instructor can refuse it. The limits depend on your school:

Credit/No Credit courses also don’t count toward the 15 graded credits the Dean’s List needs, so a CR can cost you the list even though it can’t lower your GPA.

Raising your UVA GPA

Add your current GPA and credits, enter a target GPA, and the calculator works out what you need next term. In the worked example, a College student at 3.370 on 43 credits needs at least a 3.88 on the next 15 credits to reach a cumulative 3.50. It gets harder as the credits pile up: a 4.0 semester of 15 credits lifts a 3.10 on 60 credits to 3.28, but the same semester only lifts a 3.10 on 90 credits to 3.23.

The fastest lever is the retake rule. Replacing an F with a B in a 3-credit course takes 3 credits with no points out of your record and puts 9 points in their place, which moves a GPA far more than a new B would. With only 9 credits to use, spend them on the F’s and D’s that cost you most, and check your school’s start term first.

GPA to get into UVA

UVA’s Office of Undergraduate Admission is direct about it: “We don’t have a minimum GPA.” Its FAQ explains that a cumulative GPA says little about how hard your courses were or whether your grades improved, so there’s no cutoff to calculate against.

UVA doesn’t publish an average high school GPA for its first-years either: the GPA items in its 2025–2026 Common Data Set are left blank, so the averages quoted online are estimates. This calculator is built for courses taken at UVA. To work out a GPA from your high school transcript, the high school grade point calculator handles weighted and unweighted grades.

How this calculator works

This University of Virginia GPA calculator applies the grading scale and the repeat rule in the University Regulations of the Undergraduate Record 2026–2027, and each undergraduate school’s own rules from its section of the Record: the retake options, the Dean’s List line, academic standing and graduation honors. It runs the GPA calculation on your exact grade points and credits and rounds each result to three decimals.

It assumes your retake falls inside your school’s start term and that you haven’t used any of the 9 retake credits yet. It can’t know which courses count for your major, which are required nursing or Batten core courses, or the standing rules of an SCPS program, so it tells you when a verdict depends on those. SIS holds your official GPA.

Everything runs in your browser; the page stores nothing you enter. Calculate Your Grade isn’t connected with the University of Virginia in any way, so SIS and your dean’s office have the final word.

Sources

• Undergraduate Record 2026–2027: University Regulations: Academic (grading system, repeated courses, Dean’s List, academic warning, transfer credit)
• Undergraduate Record 2026–2027, school rules: College of Arts & Sciences, Engineering and Applied Science, McIntire School of Commerce, Architecture, Education and Human Development, Batten, Nursing, Data Science, Continuing and Professional Studies
• Undergraduate Record 2026–2027: Tuition & Fees, Financial Aid (academic progress for financial aid)
• College of Arts & Sciences: Good Academic Standing, Academic Warning and Repeated Courses
• Institutional Research and Analytics: Common Data Set 2025–2026 (first-year admission, Section C)
• Office of Undergraduate Admission: FAQs

Built and maintained by Mahmudul, the creator of Calculate Your Grade. UVA rules checked against the Undergraduate Record 2026–2027 in October 2026.

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