University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign GPA Calculator

Illinois grades on a four-point letter scale that includes both plus and minus grades, set by the Student Code and applied across every college on the Urbana-Champaign campus. The authorized grades are grouped as Excellent (A+, A, A-), Good (B+, B, B-), Fair (C+, C, C-), Poor (D+, D, D-) and Failure (F). See the Grade Scale Reference above for each grade's exact grade points.

D- is the lowest passing grade. An F is worth zero and is not acceptable for degree credit — and a course dropped for an academic integrity violation is recorded as an F.

An A+ and an A carry the same grade points. The A+ is recorded on your transcript as a distinction, but it adds nothing extra to your average, so 4.00 is the highest GPA attainable at Illinois. An A+ on its own also does not designate Honors Credit; that is a separate grade, A+H.

Illinois uses one uniform method for all undergraduate colleges on the Urbana-Champaign campus. Your average is calculated from every course you attempt for which grades and credits are assigned and that carries credit under the Courses catalog.

Some grades never enter the average. Grades of S, U, CR, NC, PS, PP, NP, PZ and PX appear on your official transcript but are excluded from your GPA, because no grade points are assigned to them. The other symbols in use — AU (audit), W (approved late drop or term withdrawal), I (incomplete), DFR (temporarily deferred), NR, NV, HON and SR — are also left out of the computation of averages.

This one calculation drives a lot: Illinois uses it to determine honors, academic standing, financial aid, scholastic awards, and transfer between colleges on this campus.

The graduation GPA is a narrower number. When your average is computed for graduation, only the grades in courses counting toward your degree are included — and that includes grades in repeated courses.

Graduate students: your graduate GPA includes all hours and grades for every course taken while you are enrolled as a graduate student.

Your grade point average, calculated by the uniform campus method, is what Illinois uses to determine academic standing — along with honors, financial aid, scholastic awards, and transfer between colleges on this campus.

Graduate students have their academic status calculated at the end of each semester. To be in good academic standing at that point you need both:

• a cumulative graduate GPA at or above your department's minimum, and
• a semester GPA of at least 2.25.

For a bachelor's degree you must have at least a 2.0 (C) average on all University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign credits counted for graduation requirements, and at least a 2.0 average on the combined transfer and Urbana-Champaign credits counted for those requirements. Certain colleges set higher graduation requirements for specific curricula, so check your own college's rules — each college office will tell you its scholarship regulations on request.

If you do not meet that standard, the Student Code allows two alternate calculations. You may graduate if you have the minimum average under either of these:

• Exclude D and F grades in up to ten semester hours completed before your last thirty hours of work at Urbana-Champaign and counted for graduation requirements; or
• achieve a grade average of no less than 2.1 over your last sixty semester hours counted for graduation requirements and completed at Urbana-Champaign — except in curricula that specify a higher requirement.

Graduate students: you must have a grade point average of at least 2.75 to be eligible for an advanced degree, and some departments require a higher average. You will not be certified for a degree with an Incomplete grade still on your academic record.

An A+ on its own does not designate Honors Credit. To recognise superior academic performance in a course or section designated as honors by the offering department — or when you hold an Honors Credit Learning Agreement — the grade awarded is A+H.

The Student Code's grade point table does not print a separate value for A+H, so this calculator treats the letter grades in the table above as the GPA-bearing grades.

Your grade point average, computed by the uniform campus method, is also what Illinois uses to determine honors and scholastic awards.

Two further honors notations exist but carry no grade points and are excluded from your averages: HON (completion with honors, used only for Carle Illinois College of Medicine core clerkship courses) and SR (Satisfactory after Remediation, also Carle Illinois only).

Illinois applies the 2.0 graduation minimum twice: once to your Urbana-Champaign credits counted for graduation requirements, and once to the combined transfer and Urbana-Champaign credits counted for those requirements. You need at least a 2.0 on both.

Credit from the other University of Illinois campuses counts as transfer. The Student Code states plainly that grades in courses taken at the other campuses of the university are counted as transferred — they are not treated as Urbana-Champaign credit.

Within the Urbana-Champaign campus, your grade point average is also what determines transfer between colleges.

Credit earned by proficiency or special examination is recorded as PS and requires a minimum grade of C. PS appears on your transcript but carries no grade points, so it does not affect your GPA.