GPA Calculator
Calculate a grade point average from your course grades and credit hours.
Weighing grades by credit
A GPA is not just the average of your grades — it is weighted by how many credits each course carries, so a heavier course counts more. This calculates it correctly from your grades and credit hours, giving the figure schools and employers actually use rather than a simple mean that ignores course weight.
Enter each course's grade and credits to get your GPA.
Why credit weighting changes the result
The weighting is what makes GPA fiddly by hand and easy to get wrong. Two students with the same letter grades can have different GPAs if their courses carry different credits, because a top grade in a big course lifts the average more than the same grade in a small one. Grade scales also differ between institutions, so the point value of each letter matters. Calculating with the proper credit weighting is what gives a GPA that matches how your institution computes it.
Common questions
Is a GPA just the average of my grades?
No — it is weighted by credit hours, so grades in larger courses count more than the same grades in smaller ones.
Why might my GPA differ from a simple average?
Because of credit weighting — a high grade in a heavy course lifts the GPA more than one in a light course.
Is anything uploaded?
No. The calculation happens in your browser.