Cumulative GPA Calculator
Combine your per-term GPAs and credit hours into an overall cumulative GPA, credit-weighted. Runs entirely in your browser.
Cumulative GPA = ฮฃ(term GPA ร term credits) รท total credits โ a credit-weighted average, so heavier terms count more. Assumes each term GPA is itself credit-weighted. Transfer/pass-fail credits may be excluded by your school's policy.
About this tool
Your cumulative GPA is not the simple average of your term GPAs โ it is a credit-weighted average, so a 15-credit term counts more than a 9-credit one. This calculator does it correctly: it multiplies each term's GPA by that term's credit hours to get 'quality points,' sums the quality points and the credits across all terms, and divides to give the cumulative GPA. Enter each term's GPA and credits and it updates live, also showing your total credits and quality points. Use it to track your overall standing, to see how a strong or weak upcoming term would move your cumulative number, or to confirm a transcript. Note that schools differ on details โ transfer credits, repeated courses, and pass/fail grades may be included or excluded by policy โ so for official standing defer to your registrar. The arithmetic is exact and runs in your browser.
How to use it
- Enter each term's GPA and the credit hours it carried.
- Add a row per term.
- Read your credit-weighted cumulative GPA.
- Add a hypothetical future term to project how your cumulative GPA will move.
Frequently asked questions
- How is cumulative GPA calculated?
- It is credit-weighted: cumulative GPA = ฮฃ(term GPA ร term credits) รท total credits. So a 4.0 over 15 credits and a 3.0 over 5 credits give (60 + 15) รท 20 = 3.75, not the simple average of 3.5.
- Why isn't it just the average of my term GPAs?
- Because terms have different credit loads. Averaging term GPAs treats a light term the same as a heavy one. Weighting by credits gives each course equal influence, which is how registrars compute it.
- What are quality points?
- Quality points are GPA ร credits for a term (or grade points ร credits for a course) โ the raw numerator of the GPA formula. Total quality points รท total credits is your GPA. The tool shows them as a check.
- Do transfer or pass/fail credits count?
- It depends on your school. Many exclude pass/fail courses from GPA and may not count transfer credits toward GPA even if they count toward graduation. Enter only GPA-affecting credits, and check your registrar's policy.
- How do I project my GPA after next term?
- Add a row for the upcoming term with your expected GPA and its credits. The cumulative figure updates to show where you would land โ useful for setting a target term GPA.
- Is anything uploaded?
- No. All calculation runs in your browser.