GPA - FAQs

Grade Point Average or GPA is a score calculated using the same module and stage weightings (select Regulations for the appropriate academic year) used to calculate your degree classification. Your overall weighted mean mark will be assigned a GPA value using the single GPA scale for Higher Education.

Your GPA score will be calculated using the single GPA scale for Higher Education:

Grade	Mark	Grade Point
A+	≥75	4.25
A	71-74	4
A-	67-70	3.75
B+	64-66	3.5
B	61-63	3.25
B-	57-60	3
C+	54-56	2.75
C	50-53	2.5
C-	48-49	2.25
D+	43-47	2
D	40-42	1.5
D-	38-39	1
F+	35-37	0.75
F	30-34	0.5
F-	≥29	0

 

The GPA provides more granularity than the current Honours Degree Classification system. The GPA is more easily recognised by international employers and overseas institutions, thus providing you with more mobility and graduate employment opportunities overseas.

Your GPA score will be displayed on your transcript, along with your Cum Laude award (if applicable) and your overall weighted mean mark.

 

The introduction GPA score will not mean any change to the classifications, transcript and certificate provision, that University of Birmingham students have received for many years.  All undergraduate students on classified Honours degree programmes will still be awarded a degree classification that will be included on the degree certificate and transcript.

GPA scores will not be calculated for students on unclassified Undergraduate degree programmes, such as the Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery and Bachelor of Dental Surgery programmes. GPA scores are also not available to Postgraduate Taught or Postgraduate Research students. Or eligible programmes that graduated before July 2019.

As a student or alumnus, you can manage electronic and printed versions of your degree documents (certificates, transcripts). You can view and share an electronic copy of your documents with third parties and order hard copies of your documents.

*Please note, Gradintelligence is only currently available for current students and those due to graduate this summer, if you completed your studies before 2025, you can access your documents on Verify, for more information see: Secure Documents website (Verify)*

A GPA score is only available for students graduating from July 2019 onwards. We will not be able to calculate a GPA score or Cum Laude awards for alumni who graduated prior to July 2019. 

You can update your information sharing preferences in Online Results to confirm that you are happy to share your GPA information with third parties and to have it included in references.

This means that you are giving us permission to share your Overall Weighted Mean mark, your GPA score, your Cum Laude award (if applicable) and your rank in the cohort (*Please note ranking information is not available for those who graduated from July 2020 onwards due to the suspension of 'Cum Laude' awards*).

If you can no longer access Online Results after you have left the University and you want to update your information sharing preferences, you can send an email to gpa@contacts.bham.ac.uk and we will do this for you.

We will also provide verification of your GPA information to a third party if you have provided them with a copy of your GPA Certificate and written consent that allows them to contact the University to verify this document.

If your degree classification is raised due to extenuating circumstances, your marks will not change so your Overall Weighted Mean mark and your GPA score will not change either. So unless you were previously eligible for a Cum Laude award, you will still not be eligible for a Cum Laude award, even if your degree classification has been raised.

If the outcome of your appeal is that you are permitted further sits in some of your modules, your marks will change so your GPA score may change and you may then be eligible for a Cum Laude award.

No, the Code of Practice on Academic Appeals states that Registered Students cannot appeal the overall weighted mean mark, Grade Point Average, or award of Cum Laude.