Institute of Business Administration, Karachi CGPA Calculator
Karachi, Sindh · public · est. 1955
At Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, your CGPA is the credit-hour weighted average of every course you have taken: multiply each course's grade point by its credit hours, add those quality points across all your semesters, then divide by the total credit hours. Grade points come from the official IBA Karachi grading scale shown below, on which 93% or more earns A (4.00 points) and the maximum CGPA is 4.00. The lowest passing grade is C-, awarded from 60%.
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Switch to “Enter marks” to see your exact percentage. It cannot be derived from letter grades alone, and Pakistan has no single official CGPA-to-percentage formula.
Institute of Business Administration, Karachi grading scale
IBA Karachi grades on an absolute scale out of 4.00 with 9 bands. A mark of 93% or above earns A (4.00), and 60% is the lowest passing band (C-). The calculator above already applies these bands, so you can enter raw marks instead of letters.
| Marks (%) | Grade | Grade point |
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| 93–100 | A | 4.00 |
| 87–92 | A- | 3.67 |
| 82–86 | B+ | 3.33 |
| 77–81 | B | 3.00 |
| 72–76 | B- | 2.67 |
| 68–71 | C+ | 2.33 |
| 64–67 | C | 2.00 |
| 60–63 | C- | 1.67 |
| 0–59 | F | 0.00 |
All sources (7)
- https://examination.iba.edu.pk/GradingEvaluation.php · retrieved 2026-08-28Primary authority. The absolute grading scheme is transcribed verbatim into gradingPlan: A 93-100 4.00, A- 87-92 3.67, B+ 82-86 3.33, B 77-81 3.00, B- 72-76 2.67, C+ 68-71 2.33, C 64-67 2.00, C- 60-63 1.67, F 0-59 0.00, with I (Incomplete) and W (Course Withdrawn) outside the calculation. IBA's scale is far stricter than the HEC pattern - an A needs 93% rather than 85% - and there is NO D+ or D grade at all: 59% or below is an F. The same page states that faculty may choose either the absolute or a relative scheme; that 60% of the course grade comes from semester work and 40% from the final examination; that CGPA is the sum of (credit hours x grade points) divided by the sum of credit hours; that a student must maintain CGPA 2.2 cumulatively and is dropped immediately below 2.0; that CGPA between 2.00 and 2.19 brings a warning and probation; that a BBA/BS or MBA finalist between 2.0 and 2.2 must repeat a semester or courses to reach 2.2 before the degree is awarded; and that when a course is repeated the better of the two attempts counts with no averaging, though a student who repeats is ineligible for the Gold Medal and the Dean's List.
- https://www.iba.edu.pk/gradingplan.php · retrieved 2026-08-28Second, independent official copy of the same table on the main IBA domain, dating the current plan to Spring 2010. Percentage, grade and GPA columns match the Examination Department page exactly, which is why scaleSource is official rather than hec-default.
- https://examination.iba.edu.pk/DeansList.php · retrieved 2026-08-28Criteria for the Dean's Honour List: CGPA of 3.5 or above, completion of at least four courses of three or more credit hours in a regular semester, no disciplinary action and no failures; MBA Executive students need three such courses. Medal criteria: highest CGPA of 3.5 or higher with no failures, ties broken on higher average percentage marks, and no award unless the graduating batch has at least twenty students.
- https://www.iba.edu.pk/history.php · retrieved 2026-08-28Source for foundedYear 1955. IBA was established in 1955 as the USAID-financed Institute of Public and Business Administration on the US MBA model, with programmes commencing in the YMCA building in Karachi and technical support from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Until 1994 the University of Karachi awarded its degrees; the Sindh Assembly then granted IBA its own charter and degree-awarding status under the IBA Act 1994 (amended 2013 and 2018).
- https://www.iba.edu.pk/images/logo.png · retrieved 2026-08-28brandColor #700F1A sampled from this asset - the maroon block that carries the IBA lettering and the star device, overwhelmingly the dominant colour. Contrast of #700F1A on white is 11.85:1, passing WCAG AA and AAA, so no brandColorAccessible override is needed. Beware the lockup currently shown on the iba.edu.pk homepage (images/logo-iba-70years.png): that is a temporary 70 Years & Beyond anniversary variant with a gold numeral, not the permanent mark. Note also that this asset sets the Leadership - Excellence - Impact tagline in white, so the pipeline should crop to the maroon block or place it on a tinted panel. The logo is a trademark of the Institute of Business Administration, Karachi and is used nominatively.
- https://www.iba.edu.pk/undergraduate.php · retrieved 2026-08-28Verifies notablePrograms. IBA's own listing covers BBA, BS (Accounting & Finance), BS (Computer Science), BS (Economics), BS (Economics & Mathematics), BS (Mathematics), BS (Social Sciences & Liberal Arts), BS Business Analytics and BS Economics and Data Science, taught through the School of Business Studies, the School of Economics and Social Sciences and the School of Mathematics and Computer Science.
- https://www.iba.edu.pk/News/student-handbook2025-26.pdf · retrieved 2026-08-28Current student-facing handbook published by IBA; cited as the companion document students are pointed to for academic rules alongside the Examination Department pages.
How grading works at IBA Karachi
IBA Karachi computes your CGPA as the sum of credit hours multiplied by grade points, divided by the sum of credit hours, and recalculates it every semester, including summer terms. The grading plan in force since Spring 2010 is one of the toughest in Pakistan: an A needs 93% or more, A- covers 87-92, B+ 82-86, B 77-81, B- 72-76, C+ 68-71, C 64-67 and C- 60-63, and there is no D grade at all, so anything at 59% or below is an outright F worth zero. Instructors may award grades on that absolute table or on a relative scheme, and they announce which at the start of the course.
The consequence is that IBA percentages and IBA grade points feel very far apart. A mark of 85% that would be a clean A almost anywhere else in Karachi is a B+ here. Course grades are built 60% from semester work, including two term examinations, quizzes, reports and presentations, and 40% from the final examination. IBA also sets its academic floor higher than most: you must hold a cumulative 2.2 rather than 2.0, and the Dean's List starts at 3.5. The same scale runs across BBA, BS (Computer Science), BS (Accounting & Finance) and BS (Social Sciences & Liberal Arts) at the Main and City campuses.
Worked example: a full semester on the IBA Karachi scale
Here is a complete 15 credit-hour semester scored against the IBA Karachi grade points in the table above. The marks are illustrative, but every number after them is calculated the same way the calculator on this page calculates yours.
| Course | Credit hrs | Marks /100 | Grade | Grade point | Quality points |
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| Core course I | 3 | 97 | A | 4.00 | 3 × 4.00 = 12.00 |
| Core course II | 4 | 90 | A- | 3.67 | 4 × 3.67 = 14.68 |
| Core course III | 3 | 79 | B | 3.00 | 3 × 3.00 = 9.00 |
| Elective | 3 | 74 | B- | 2.67 | 3 × 2.67 = 8.01 |
| Lab / practical | 2 | 66 | C | 2.00 | 2 × 2.00 = 4.00 |
| Total | 15 | 47.69 |
Step by step
- Convert each course mark to a grade point. Work out each course as a percentage of its total marks, then read the letter off the IBA Karachi grading table. 97 out of 100 is 97%, which falls in the A band and is worth 4.00 grade points.
- Multiply each grade point by the course credit hours. Credit hours decide how much each course counts, so multiply to get quality points: 3 × 4.00 = 12.00, 4 × 3.67 = 14.68, 3 × 3.00 = 9.00, 3 × 2.67 = 8.01, 2 × 2.00 = 4.00.
- Add the quality points and the credit hours. Adding the five courses gives 47.69 quality points across 15 credit hours.
- Divide to get the semester GPA. 47.69 ÷ 15 = 3.17, the semester GPA for this term at IBA Karachi.
- Fold the semester into your CGPA. If you had already completed 45 credit hours at a CGPA of 3.20, those carry 144.00 quality points. Add this semester and the CGPA becomes (144.00 + 47.69) ÷ (45 + 15) = 3.19.
The division actually gives 3.1793; result cards print two decimals, so it appears as 3.17. Notice how the 4-credit course moves the average roughly twice as hard as the 2-credit lab. That credit-hour weighting is the whole reason a GPA is not just the average of your grade points.
Which IBA Karachi programmes use this scale?
The same grading plan applies across IBA Karachi’s degree programmes, including BBA, BS (Computer Science), BS (Accounting & Finance), BS (Social Sciences & Liberal Arts) and BS (Economics). Credit-hour loads differ by programme (a typical semester runs 15 to 18 credit hours), but the marks-to-grade-point mapping above does not change between them.
IBA Karachi CGPA: frequently asked questions
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CalcScholar is not affiliated with or endorsed by Institute of Business Administration, Karachi. The IBA Karachi name and logo are used only to identify whose grading scale this calculator applies, and any result produced here is unofficial. Your transcript from the IBA Karachi examination department is the authority.