About the Sacred Heart University (SHU) GPA Calculator
Sacred Heart University (SHU) uses a percentage-based grading system on a 0.0–4.0 scale. The highest grade, A, is worth 4.00 grade points, while D (1.00) is the lowest grade that earns grade points. This calculator follows SHU's official scheme, so the cumulative GPA it returns matches what your transcript will show.
To calculate your GPA at SHU, enter each course's name, credit hours, and the marks you scored. The calculator weights every course by its credit hours and divides total grade points by total credits to produce your cumulative GPA — no signup required, and your inputs stay in your browser.
How SHU's grading system works
What does an A mean at SHU?
An A is the highest grade awarded at SHU and is worth 4.00 grade points, typically requiring 93% or higher. This matches the top grade on the standard US 4.0 GPA scale.
How does this scale compare to the US 4.0 GPA?
SHU uses a 4.0 scale, which directly matches the standard US GPA system — no conversion needed.
Cumulative GPA vs semester GPA — what's the difference?
Your semester GPA reflects performance in a single semester, while your cumulative GPA averages performance across every completed semester, weighted by credit hours. GPAWise handles both: enter the current semester's courses on the Calculator tab to compute your semester GPA, then save it to the My Cumulative GPA Tracker tab to start building your cumulative record at SHU.
Track your cumulative GPA across semesters
The built-in cumulative GPA tracker lets you save each semester after you calculate it, so you can watch your cumulative GPA evolve over time. You can save a semester in two ways: by course — enter every course on the calculator and click "Save as semester" — or as a quick entry, where you supply just the semester GPA and credit hours (useful for past semesters where you don't want to re-enter every grade).
Each saved semester contributes to your cumulative GPA using the standard weighted formula: Σ(semester GPA × credits) ÷ Σ(credits). The tracker shows your running cumulative GPA, total credits, and a trend arrow that compares your latest semester to the previous one — so you can see at a glance whether you're trending up or down. Semesters can be locked to prevent accidental edits, renamed, or deleted at any time.
Your tracker data stays on this device — nothing is sent to our servers, and no signup is required. A persistent "Clear all tracker data" option lets you wipe it whenever you want.
Semester GPA to cumulative GPA at SHU — how the conversion works
Your cumulative GPA is not a plain average of your semester GPAs: each semester is weighted by the credit hours it carried. The formula is:
Cumulative GPA = (GPA1 × credits1 + GPA2 × credits2 + … + GPAn × creditsn) ÷ (credits1 + credits2 + … + creditsn)
Heavier semesters pull the cumulative figure harder than lighter ones, which is why two students with the same average semester GPA can end up with different cumulative GPAs. Save each semester to the tracker and it runs this formula on every save, edit and delete.
Add past semesters without entering every course
For older semesters, choose Quick — Semester GPA + credits only on the tracker and enter the semester's name, the semester GPA on your transcript and the credit hours it carried. Semesters saved by course and quick-added ones mix freely. A semester saved by course counts its courses' own grade points; a quick-added one counts the figure you typed, which is already rounded, so the two can differ by 0.01 in the cumulative GPA.
Frequently asked questions
What grading scheme does Sacred Heart University (SHU) use?
Where does this SHU grade scale come from?
Does this grading scale apply to graduate courses too?
No. This scale is Sacred Heart University's undergraduate grading scale. Graduate courses use a narrower scale that runs from A through C, plus F, and does not include the C-, D+, or D grades available to undergraduates. The graduate scale is published as letter grades with quality-point values only, without the percentage ranges shown above for undergraduate courses.
Source: Registrar Grading Policy footnote (C-/D+/D unavailable for graduate courses) + Graduate Catalog grading-system page — verified Sep 2026
