University of Michigan CGPA Calculator
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CGPA at University of Michigan 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. Michigan awards those grade points through the official Michigan grading scale shown below, a 12-band table that runs from 4.00 (A, 93% and above) down to 0.00 for a fail, giving a maximum CGPA of 4.00. The lowest passing grade is D-, 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.
University of Michigan grading scale
Michigan grades on an absolute scale out of 4.00 with 12 bands. A mark of 93% or above earns A (4.00), 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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| 93–100 | A | 4.00 |
| 90–92 | A- | 3.70 |
| 87–89 | B+ | 3.30 |
| 83–86 | B | 3.00 |
| 80–82 | B- | 2.70 |
| 77–79 | C+ | 2.30 |
| 73–76 | C | 2.00 |
| 70–72 | C- | 1.70 |
| 67–69 | D+ | 1.30 |
| 63–66 | D | 1.00 |
| 60–62 | D- | 0.70 |
| 0–59 | E | 0.00 |
All sources (2)
- https://lsa.umich.edu/lsa/academics/lsa-academic-policies-and-procedures/grading-and-transcript-notations/grades-and-transcript-notations.html · retrieved 2026-09-02University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA) official grading and transcript notations page. Direct automated fetch was blocked (403), but a search-engine text extraction of this exact URL returned the full honor-points table verbatim: A=4.0, A-=3.7, B+=3.3, B=3.0, B-=2.7, C+=2.3, C=2.0, C-=1.7, D+=1.3, D=1.0, D-=0.7, E=0.0, U-M's failing grade is lettered E, not F.
- https://catalog.umd.umich.edu/academic-policies-campus/grading-system/grading-system.pdf · retrieved 2026-09-02University of Michigan-Dearborn academic catalog's 'Grading System' PDF, fetched and read directly, confirming the identical honor-points table (A/A+=4.0, A-=3.7, B+=3.3, B=3.0, B-=2.7, C+=2.3, C=2.0, C-=1.7, D+=1.3, D=1.0, D-=0.7, E=0.0) under the same University of Michigan (4.0) grading system shared across the Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint campuses. This document also notes A+ and D- are not used by every unit (e.g. not used by CECS or CEHHS instructors on the Dearborn campus specifically), so a given student's own school may not actually award every band shown here. GPA is honor points earned divided by hours elected. Michigan does not publish an official percentage-to-letter table; the bands below use the common convention layered on top of Michigan's own confirmed grade points.
How grading works at Michigan
The University of Michigan computes GPA the standard way, 'honor points' (grade points) per course multiplied by credit hours elected, summed, and divided by total hours elected, on the familiar 4.0 scale, with one small but genuine difference from most peer schools: Michigan's failing grade is lettered E, not F, a naming convention it shares with only a handful of other US universities on this page (Georgia Tech and Texas A&M use F; Michigan does not).
Chartered in 1817, more than two decades before Michigan achieved statehood, the university's main Ann Arbor campus grades most undergraduate coursework on the plus/minus scale shown here, in the standard three-tenths-of-a-point steps between letters. Individual schools and colleges retain some discretion, though: Michigan's own published policy notes that certain grades, including A+ and D-, are not used by every academic unit, so what actually appears on a given student's transcript can be a subset of the full scale depending on their school.
A course a student repeats at Michigan follows a specific, published rule: students may repeat a course at most twice (three total attempts), and only the grade from the most recent attempt counts toward the cumulative GPA, regardless of whether it is higher or lower than the earlier attempt, a detail worth knowing before assuming a retake simply averages in. Michigan does not publish one official percentage-to-letter conversion applied campus-wide, so the percentage bands here are a common approximation; the letter grades and honor-point values themselves come directly from Michigan's own grading policy.
Worked example: a full semester on the Michigan scale
Here is a complete 15 credit-hour semester scored against the Michigan 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 | 88 | B+ | 3.30 | 4 × 3.30 = 13.20 |
| Core course III | 3 | 81 | B- | 2.70 | 3 × 2.70 = 8.10 |
| Elective | 3 | 75 | C | 2.00 | 3 × 2.00 = 6.00 |
| Lab / practical | 2 | 68 | D+ | 1.30 | 2 × 1.30 = 2.60 |
| Total | 15 | 41.90 |
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 Michigan 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 × 3.30 = 13.20, 3 × 2.70 = 8.10, 3 × 2.00 = 6.00, 2 × 1.30 = 2.60.
- Add the quality points and the credit hours. Adding the five courses gives 41.90 quality points across 15 credit hours.
- Divide to get the semester GPA. 41.90 ÷ 15 = 2.79, the semester GPA for this term at Michigan.
- 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 + 41.90) ÷ (45 + 15) = 3.10.
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 Michigan programmes use this scale?
The same grading plan applies across Michigan’s degree programmes, including Ross School of Business, College of Engineering, Computer Science and Ford School of Public Policy. 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.
Michigan CGPA: frequently asked questions
Why does Michigan use E instead of F for a failing grade?
Does every Michigan grade band on this page actually get used?
What happens to your GPA if you repeat a course at Michigan?
How are honor points different from grade points?
Does Michigan publish one official percentage scale for every course?
Need every semester on one page?
The transcript generator turns your Michigan semesters into a full result card, complete with per-term SGPA, running CGPA, percentage and a grand-total row, and downloads it as a PDF you can attach to an application.
CalcScholar is not affiliated with or endorsed by University of Michigan. The Michigan 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 Michigan examination department is the authority.