Davenport University (DU) GPA Calculator

Davenport grades on a 4.0 scale with 12 letter grades: A (4.00), A- (3.70), B+ (3.30), B (3.00), B- (2.70), C+ (2.30), C (2.00), C- (1.70), D+ (1.30), D (1.00), F (0.00), and NF (0.00, "No Show Failing").

There is no A+ — A itself, at 4.00, is the top of the scale, and there is no D- below D.

Several marks appear on a Davenport transcript but carry no grade-point value and are not computed in your GPA: AU (Audit), CR (Credit), I (Incomplete), LATE, NC (No Credit), P (Pass), W (Withdrawal), and WM (Withdrawal-Military). Letter grades earned in Foundations of Learning (below college-level, 000-level) courses carry a *@ suffix and are also excluded from your GPA.

Your cumulative GPA is the total Quality Points you've earned divided by the total credit hours you've attempted, counting only credits attempted at Davenport University. Your major GPA is calculated the same way, using only your major coursework.

If you retake a course you've already received credit for, only the higher of the two grades counts toward your GPA — but both attempts stay on your transcript, and you receive credit only once. You generally can't retake the first course in a sequence once you hold credit for the second course in that sequence.

Academic Fresh Start lets you return after at least three consecutive years away and start over with a clean cumulative GPA (keeping credit for all "C" grades or better), provided you earn at least 12 letter-graded credits after re-entry at a 2.5 GPA or higher and apply through the Registrar.

Your GPA is checked at the end of every semester. A cumulative GPA below 2.0 places you on Probation. If your semester GPA rises above 2.0 while your cumulative GPA stays below 2.0, you move to Probation with Improvement.

Failing to reach a 2.0 semester GPA and a 2.0 cumulative GPA by your third semester or later results in Academic Suspension. Re-entry requires a semester's lapse, an appeal letter, and maintaining at least a 2.0 GPA every semester after you return until your cumulative GPA reaches 2.0.

Failing to meet those re-entry conditions leads to Academic Dismissal (re-entry requires evidence of successful coursework elsewhere and at least a 2.5 GPA every semester after you return), and failing dismissal's conditions leads to Final Dismissal, with no further re-entry eligibility.

You need a minimum 2.0 cumulative GPA plus a 2.3 GPA in your major to graduate. Nursing students need a 2.7 major GPA instead, and Post-Baccalaureate Certificate students need a 2.3 overall GPA in their required courses. You'll also need to meet Davenport's credit-hour and residency requirements — a minimum of 60 semester hours for an associate's degree or 120 for a bachelor's, per Michigan Department of Education standards.

Associate's and bachelor's graduates with a cumulative GPA of 3.50 or higher earn graduation honors: With Honor (3.50–3.69), With High Honor (3.70–3.89), or With Highest Honor (3.90–4.00, gold cords at commencement). The designation appears on your diploma and transcript.

Each semester, undergraduates earning a 3.80+ semester GPA (on 6 or more GPA-counted credits) make the President's List, and those earning a 3.50–3.79 semester GPA (same credit condition) make the Dean's List — both are noted on your official transcript.