University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW) GPA Calculator

UNCW uses letter grades on a 0.00–4.00 quality-point scale. The Office of the Registrar publishes the full table: A is worth 4.00 quality points, A- is 3.67, B+ is 3.33, B is 3.00, B- is 2.67, C+ is 2.33, C is 2.00, C- is 1.67, D+ is 1.33, D is 1.00, and D- is 0.67, described as the lowest “Passing” grade.

UNCW does not award an A+ — no grade above 4.00 appears anywhere in the university's own grading materials.

Below D- sit two failing notations, both valued at 0.00: F (“Failure”) and WF (“Failure/Late Withdrawal”) — a separate code for a withdrawal that is treated as a failure rather than a straightforward course failure.

Six notations carry no grade-point value at all and do not affect your GPA: I (Incomplete), IP (In Progress), W (Withdrawal), NR (Not Reported), Z, and P (Pass).

Your grade point average is determined by dividing the accumulated number of grade points (quality points) earned at UNCW by the accumulated number of attempted hours earned at UNCW. It is calculated out to the ten-thousandths decimal place and then truncated (not rounded) for your official transcript.

GPA Hours — the hours used in that denominator — include your UNC Wilmington passed hours, plus any F's and WF's. Both failing notations pull your average down; simply withdrawing (a plain W) does not, since W carries no grade-point value.

Transfer courses are not calculated into your UNC Wilmington GPA at all — only your UNCW coursework counts toward it. Transfer work attempted is used separately, only when calculating graduating students' degrees with distinction.

If you retake a course elsewhere and pass it, the original UNCW grade — including an F — is not replaced. Grades do not transfer, so an “F” earned at UNCW stays in your UNCW GPA regardless of what you later earn for the same course at another institution; in fact, earning a “C” or better elsewhere means you can no longer retake the course at UNCW for credit at all, since credit can't be awarded twice for the same course.

To remain in Good Academic Standing, UNCW students must maintain a 2.0 cumulative GPA.

Falling below that floor moves you through an escalating sequence: Academic Standing: Concerning after your first term below a 2.0 cumulative GPA, Academic Standing: Warning after a second consecutive term below 2.0, and Academic Standing: Appeal Required at the end of a third consecutive term below 2.0 — at which point you must appeal to continue taking classes.

UNCW also tracks Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP), the ratio of attempted to earned semester credit hours. Undergraduates must maintain at least a 67% attempted-to-earned ratio; falling below it adds an “Insufficient Academic Progress” note to your transcript. This SAP ratio is separate from the federal financial-aid SAP ratio.

UNCW grants three degrees with distinction to graduating students, based on all work attempted in meeting degree requirements: Cum Laude for an overall average of 3.50, Magna Cum Laude for 3.70, and Summa Cum Laude for 3.90.

GPAs are not rounded when determining distinction level. Latin Honors are calculated twice: once before the commencement ceremony using the student's most recent term GPA, and again after final grades for the term have been posted — the recalculated figure is what prints on the diploma and official transcript. Distinction cords are distributed by the Office of the Registrar and are available only to undergraduate students; graduate students are not eligible for a distinction.

Transfer courses are not calculated into your UNC Wilmington GPA. Only coursework taken at UNCW itself feeds the GPA formula.

Transfer credit still matters for one purpose: all transfer work attempted is used when calculating a graduating student's degree with distinction (Cum Laude, Magna Cum Laude, Summa Cum Laude) — even though the same transfer grades never touch the UNCW GPA shown on your transcript.