Massachusetts Institute of Technology CGPA Calculator
Cambridge, Massachusetts · private · est. 1861
CGPA at Massachusetts Institute of Technology is total quality points divided by total credit hours, counted across every semester you have completed, a quality point being one credit hour multiplied by that course's grade point. MIT awards those grade points through the official MIT grading scale shown below, a 5-band table that runs from 5.00 (A, 90% and above) down to 0.00 for a fail, giving a maximum CGPA of 5.00. The lowest passing grade is D, awarded from 60%.
Add one row per course this semester.
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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.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology grading scale
MIT grades on an absolute scale out of 5.00 with 5 bands. A mark of 90% or above earns A (5.00), and 60% is the lowest passing band (D). The calculator above already applies these bands, so you can enter raw marks instead of letters.
| Marks (%) | Grade | Grade point |
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| 90–100 | A | 5.00 |
| 80–89 | B | 4.00 |
| 70–79 | C | 3.00 |
| 60–69 | D | 2.00 |
| 0–59 | F | 0.00 |
All sources (2)
- https://registrar.mit.edu/classes-grades-evaluations/grades/calculating-gpa · retrieved 2026-09-02MIT Registrar's own 'Calculating your GPA' page, fetched directly. Quoted verbatim: 'Grades used in the calculation if your GPA are weighted as follows: A=5, B=4, C=3, D=2, F=0, O=0.' MIT is a genuinely unusual case worth flagging explicitly: its official GPA scale tops out at 5.0, not the 4.0 nearly every other US university uses, so maxGpa is set to 5.0 here rather than the usual default. MIT also does not use plus/minus modifiers in its GPA at all, the registrar page notes plus/minus annotations exist on some internal records but 'don't appear on official transcripts or GPA calculations' (per MIT's own Course Catalog, 'Academic Performance and Grades' section), so only the five whole letters A/B/C/D/F carry grade points.
- https://catalog.mit.edu/mit/procedures/academic-performance-grades/ · retrieved 2026-09-02MIT's official Course Catalog description of A/B/C/D grade meanings and the 5.0-scale 'term rating' academic-standing threshold ('a term rating above 3.0 on a 5.0 scale'), corroborating the registrar's numeric weights above. MIT does not publish a university-wide percentage-to-letter conversion, grading is left to each subject's own instructor, so the percentage bands below use the generic, widely-cited 90/80/70/60 convention seen on numerous individual MIT subject syllabi (e.g. MIT OpenCourseWare course pages), not an MIT-wide official table; this is disclosed here rather than presented as MIT policy.
How grading works at MIT
MIT is one of the very few US universities where the GPA scale itself is unusual: instead of the familiar 4.0 ceiling, MIT's registrar weights grades A=5, B=4, C=3, D=2 and F=0, so a perfect MIT term rating is 5.0, not 4.0. Semester GPA is still computed the ordinary way underneath that, each subject's grade point is multiplied by its unit count, the results are summed, and the total is divided by units attempted, the ceiling is just higher because MIT's own point values are.
Founded in 1861 and built around a hands-on, lab-first approach to science and engineering education, MIT does not use plus or minus grades in its official GPA at all. Instructors may annotate work internally with a plus or minus, but MIT's own catalog is explicit that these do not appear on the official transcript or feed into the GPA calculation, so a B+ and a plain B carry the exact same 4.0 grade points at MIT, a real, sourced difference from most peer universities, not a simplification.
First-year students face their own separate grading rules on top of this: MIT's first semester is graded Pass/No Record only, and the second first-year semester on an ABC/No-Record basis, both specifically designed to ease the transition into MIT's famously demanding coursework before the ordinary A-F/5.0 system takes over for the rest of a student's degree. MIT does not publish one official percentage-to-letter conversion for every subject, since grading criteria are set by each subject's own instructor, so treat the percentage bands here as a common approximation rather than an MIT-wide rule.
Worked example: a full semester on the MIT scale
Here is a complete 15 credit-hour semester scored against the MIT 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 | 95 | A | 5.00 | 3 × 5.00 = 15.00 |
| Core course II | 4 | 85 | B | 4.00 | 4 × 4.00 = 16.00 |
| Core course III | 3 | 85 | B | 4.00 | 3 × 4.00 = 12.00 |
| Elective | 3 | 75 | C | 3.00 | 3 × 3.00 = 9.00 |
| Lab / practical | 2 | 75 | C | 3.00 | 2 × 3.00 = 6.00 |
| Total | 15 | 58.00 |
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 MIT grading table. 95 out of 100 is 95%, which falls in the A band and is worth 5.00 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 × 5.00 = 15.00, 4 × 4.00 = 16.00, 3 × 4.00 = 12.00, 3 × 3.00 = 9.00, 2 × 3.00 = 6.00.
- Add the quality points and the credit hours. Adding the five courses gives 58.00 quality points across 15 credit hours.
- Divide to get the semester GPA. 58.00 ÷ 15 = 3.86, the semester GPA for this term at MIT.
- Fold the semester into your CGPA. If you had already completed 45 credit hours at a CGPA of 4.00, those carry 180.00 quality points. Add this semester and the CGPA becomes (180.00 + 58.00) ÷ (45 + 15) = 3.97.
The division actually gives 3.8667; result cards print two decimals, so it appears as 3.86. 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 MIT programmes use this scale?
The same grading plan applies across MIT’s degree programmes, including Course 6 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Course 2 Mechanical Engineering, Course 18 Mathematics and Sloan School of Management. 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.
MIT CGPA: frequently asked questions
Why does MIT's GPA go up to 5.0 instead of 4.0?
Does MIT use plus and minus grades in its GPA?
How is a first-year MIT student's grade different from later years?
Does MIT publish an official percentage cutoff for each letter grade?
How do I convert an MIT GPA to the more common 4.0 scale?
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CalcScholar is not affiliated with or endorsed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The MIT 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 MIT examination department is the authority.