University of the Pacific (Pacific) GPA Calculator

Undergraduate and first-professional-level students (including PharmD) are graded on an 11-grade, 0.00-4.00 scale with both plus and minus modifiers: A, A-, B+, B, B-, C+, C, C-, D+, D, and F. There is no A+ and no D- at this level.

Graduate students and McGeorge School of Law (JD) students are graded under separate, program-specific policies not covered by this scale.

Your Pacific GPA is total quality points divided by total quality hours. Quality points are the units for a course multiplied by the grade points earned. As a general rule, if you repeat a course, both attempts count toward your overall GPA.

To repeat a course at the undergraduate or first-professional (PharmD) level, you must have received a C- or lower the first time. You may repeat a given course only once (Fundamental Skills courses are exempt). You may use grade-replacement (best grade only) for your first three repeated courses toward your cumulative and major/minor/program GPA; any repeats beyond three are grade-averaged instead. Both the original and repeat grades stay on your academic record either way.

You're in good standing if both your term GPA and your cumulative Pacific GPA are 2.00 or higher.

If your term GPA falls below 2.00 while your cumulative GPA is still 2.00 or higher, you're in good standing with warning. Whether you're placed on probation or disqualified after that depends on your class standing (freshman/sophomore/junior/senior) and specific cumulative-GPA floors for each: for example, a freshman's cumulative GPA must stay at or above 1.50, a sophomore's at or above 1.80, and a junior's at or above 1.95, to avoid disqualification once already on warning or probation.

To graduate with a bachelor's degree from Pacific, you need:

• A GPA of at least 2.0 in your major requirements (at least 16 of those units completed at Pacific)
• A GPA of at least 2.0 on all letter-graded coursework completed at Pacific
• At least 28 units of General Education, including both CORE Seminars and all seven Areas of Inquiry
• Fundamental Skills requirements met
• At least 32 of your last 40 semester units completed in residence at Pacific

You're named to the Dean's Honor Roll for any term in which you complete 12 or more letter-graded (A-F) units with a term GPA of 3.5 or above.

To graduate with Latin honors, you need a minimum of 54 letter-graded units completed at Pacific and a final overall Pacific GPA of: Cum Laude 3.5, Magna Cum Laude 3.7, or Summa Cum Laude 3.9. Because Commencement happens before spring grades are final, the Commencement program shows provisional honors based on fall-semester grades and a minimum of 36 letter-graded units instead; your final honors are confirmed once all coursework is graded.

Beginning Fall 2006, only a grade of C or above transfers to Pacific; courses below that don't count toward units or degree requirements. Credit completed in a quarter-hour system is converted to semester units, which reduces the total hours accepted by one-third.