UT Austin GPA calculator: credits, grades and CR

Calculate a semester or combine it with previous work

Enter credit hours and a grade for each course. An F contributes zero grade points and still contributes its graded hours. A credit-only or excluded symbol contributes neither to this calculator’s GPA denominator.

For a cumulative estimate, enter both the previous GPA and the previous GPA-counted hours. Use the same scope for the two inputs. Total earned degree hours can include credit that was excluded from the GPA; it is not automatically the correct previous-hours figure.

A seven-hour example, worked line by line

Consider this illustrative semester: three hours of A, three hours of B+ and one hour of B. The grade points are 12.00, 9.99 and 3.00. Their sum is 24.99; dividing by seven included hours gives 3.570.

Precision changes an ordinary example. Three hours of A− contribute 3 × 3.67 = 11.01 points; substituting 3.70 gives 11.10, an extra 0.09 points and a 0.03 GPA difference for that three-hour example. Those are calculations from the published table, not interchangeable rounded inputs.

CR and F change different parts of the calculation

Add a three-hour CR course to the example. The GPA calculation remains 24.99 divided by seven, because the CR course is excluded. It may still matter for degree credit; that is a separate question for the degree audit.

Instead add three hours of F. The numerator stays 24.99, while included hours rise to ten, producing 2.499. An F is a letter grade worth zero points; removing its hours would overstate the result.

The catalog’s undergraduate exclusions include I, Q, W, X, S, U and CR. Do not use one of those symbols as a convenient substitute for a letter grade you expect to receive. Included work and excluded symbols

Combine grade points, not the two displayed GPAs

Suppose the previous record has 60 GPA-counted hours at 3.25. That implies 195 grade points from those inputs. Add the example semester’s 24.99 points and seven hours: 219.99 divided by 67 gives approximately 3.283.

A simple average of 3.25 and 3.570 gives each period equal weight even though one contains far more hours. The cumulative calculation must preserve those weights.

If the previous GPA was already rounded, the reconstructed grade-point total is approximate. Carrying extra display decimals in this tool does not recover precision that was missing from the input. Do not combine overlapping periods or add a semester that is already included in the previous total.

In the stated 60-hour plus seven-hour example, the unweighted average is (3.25 + 3.570) ÷ 2 = 3.410. The weighted result is 219.99 ÷ 67 ≈ 3.2834, about 0.1266 lower. This authored comparison explains why the denominator matters; neither result is a fetched student record.

Use the correct GPA for the decision

This independent tool implements the undergraduate University GPA scope described above. The Registrar’s calculator says it serves undergraduate and graduate users and does not take Law GPA calculation into account; that does not expand this tool’s scope to graduate records. The catalog lists separate graduate inclusion rules. Use the appropriate official office for those cases.

A grade scenario also does not establish eligibility for a major, scholarship or academic status. Those decisions can involve additional requirements and their own published rules.

The degree-audit guide addresses how coursework applies to a degree. The registration guide addresses obtaining the intended classes. Keep those tasks alongside the grade calculation instead of asking one number to settle all three.

Use Texas One Stop’s Student Records index for posted grades and related official-record services.