Percentage to GPA Calculator

Percentage to GPA chart (4.0 scale)

Every percentage from 100 to 60, converted

The chart above groups percentages into bands. If you came here with one mark — a 93, an 88, a 78 — this is the same mapping listed a percent at a time. Unlike the reverse direction, this one is exact: each percentage sits in exactly one band, so the grade point beside it is the answer rather than an approximation.

Anything below 60% is an F and carries 0.0 grade points on this scale, so the table stops there rather than repeating the same row forty times.

How the conversion works

There is no arithmetic formula here, and that surprises people who expect something like the ×9.5 rule used on India's 10-point scale. Converting a percentage to a US GPA is a lookup, not a calculation: your percentage maps to a letter grade, and that letter maps to grade points. An 87% is a B+, and a B+ is 3.3.

This matters because the mapping is lossy in one direction and not the other. Every percentage from 83 to 86 becomes the same 3.0, so converting 84% to GPA and back does not return 84% — it returns the middle of the B band. If you need to preserve your exact marks, keep the percentages.

Convert per course, not on your average

This is the mistake that produces wrong numbers most often. To get a GPA from percentages, convert each course to grade points first, then take the credit-weighted average of those points. Do not average your percentages and convert the result.

The two disagree because the bands are not evenly spaced. Take a 91% and a 79% in equal-credit courses. Converting each first gives 3.7 and 2.7, averaging to 3.20. Averaging the percentages gives 85%, which converts to 3.00. Same transcript, two-tenths apart — and the second method is the wrong one.

Your school's cutoffs may not match this chart

The table above uses the most common US convention, but percentage cutoffs are set institution by institution. Real variations include schools where an A starts at 93 and others where it starts at 90, schools that award no A+ at all, schools that omit the minus grades entirely, and schools using .33/.67 increments so that an A− is 3.67 rather than 3.7.

That last difference looks trivial and is not: across a full transcript, the .33/.67 convention and the .3/.7 convention drift far enough apart to move a borderline honours classification. We publish the verified scale for each university we cover for exactly this reason.

When an official conversion is required

For anything binding — graduate applications, credential evaluation, visa paperwork — do not submit a self-converted GPA. Admissions offices and evaluation services such as WES apply their own conversion to your original transcript, and a figure you calculated yourself will simply be replaced, or treated as an inconsistency if it differs.

Use this page to understand roughly where you stand, then send the transcript as issued and let the receiving institution do the conversion.

Related tools

Need the other direction? Use the GPA to percentage calculator. Working from letter grades instead, the letter grade to GPA chart gives the point values directly, and the college GPA calculator handles the credit weighting across a full semester.