Riphah International University GPA Calculator

Riphah uses an absolute, marks-based grading system for its undergraduate (semester) programs: each course carries 100 marks, combining continuous assessment, a mid-semester exam, and an end-semester (terminal) exam, and every mark range maps to a fixed letter grade and grade point on a 0.00–4.00 scale. The minimum passing mark is 50% — anything below that is an F.

Where a class has more than 20 students, the department may instead adopt a relative (curve-based) grading system under HEC guidelines, at the university's discretion.

These regulations govern general/BS semester programs. Programs supervised by a professional council — for example MBBS/BDS under the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PM&DC), or programs under PEC, PCP, PNC and similar bodies — instead follow that council's own grading rules, which supersede this table.

Riphah reports a Semester GPA (SGPA) for each term and a Cumulative GPA (CGPA) across all semesters, both weighted by course credit hours and rounded to two decimal places on the transcript.

• Withdrawn (W) and Incomplete (I) grades are excluded from both SGPA and CGPA.
• When a course is repeated, the earlier attempt's grade is replaced on the transcript with R and dropped from the CGPA calculation — only the new attempt counts, unless the new grade is actually lower, in which case the original grade is kept and the repeat attempt is marked W instead.
• A course's combined marks are rounded to the nearest whole number once (0.5 and above rounds up) before a grade is assigned.

Riphah undergraduates must maintain a CGPA of at least 2.00 throughout their studies. Falling below 2.00 at the end of any regular semester adds one to a running probation count; the count resets to zero once CGPA is back to 2.00 or above.

• In the first semester, a GPA between 1.0 and below 1.5 triggers a serious warning (the student's last chance to reach a 2.00 semester GPA); a first-semester GPA below 1.0 leads to dismissal from the program.
• Reaching a probation count of three results in relegation: the student may only re-register for courses they need to repeat (no new courses), must maintain a semester GPA of at least 2.00 while relegated, and needs a CGPA of 2.00 or above to exit relegation status.

A Riphah undergraduate degree is awarded once a student completes every requirement of their program — including, for most programs, a mandatory 3-credit-hour field experience/internship of six to eight weeks — while keeping their CGPA at or above the university-wide 2.00 academic-deficiency floor throughout the program (falling and staying below it leads to probation and, eventually, relegation or dismissal rather than graduation).

Riphah recognizes top performers each semester and at graduation:

• Vice Chancellor's List — semester GPA of 3.7 or above, no repeated courses, no disciplinary action that semester.
• Dean's List — semester GPA of 3.5 or above, no repeated courses, no disciplinary action that semester.
• Zulfiqar Gold Medal — awarded to the student with the highest CGPA in their batch (minimum 3.5), provided they scored Grade C or above in every course, never repeated or withdrew from a course or took an I grade, faced no disciplinary punishment, and completed the entire program at the same department and campus.
• Chancellor Gold Medal — same eligibility bar as the Zulfiqar Gold Medal, but ranked on a blended score: 70% academic performance, 15% co-curricular activities (e.g. research publications, academic competitions), and 15% extra-curricular activities.