Calculating Your UNMC IPAP GPAs
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Overview
During verification, UNMC IPAP uses the information you entered in the Transcript Entry section to calculate several GPAs, including GPAs for each institution you attended. To calculate these GPAs, each A-F or 0-100 grade you entered in the Grade field is first converted to a UNMC IPAP numeric grade value, then multiplied by the attempted credits. The resulting product is Quality Points.
Your total Quality Points are then divided by your Attempted Credits to determine your GPA.
Non-graded credits are not included in your GPAs. Non-graded credits are earned credits for which you did not receive actual letter grades (e.g., advanced placement credits, "pass" or "satisfactory" credits, college board AP exams, courses taken as pass/fail, etc.). Note: a grade of WF (i.e., equivalent of a withdrawn with penalty, withdrawn failing, etc.) is factored into GPA calculations as an F.
UNMC IPAP calculates all GPAs in semester hours. Courses that were completed in quarter hours are converted to semester hours. The conversion ratio is 1.0 quarter hour = 0.667 semester hours.
Use the GPA Calculator to see how UNMC IPAP will calculate your GPA.
Example:
|
Course |
Transcript Grade |
Converted Numeric Grade Value |
Attempted Credits |
Calculation |
Quality Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
MATH 1100 |
A |
4 |
4 |
4 x 4 |
16 |
|
ENGL 1310 |
B |
3 |
3 |
3 x 3 |
9 |
|
GEOL 1610 |
C |
2 |
4 |
2 x 4 |
8 |
|
PHED 1000 |
D |
1 |
3 |
1 x 3 |
3 |
|
PSCI 1040 |
F |
0 |
3 |
0 x 3 |
0 |
|
Total |
|
|
17 |
|
36 |
|
GPA Calculation: 36 (Quality Points) / 17 (Attempted Credits) = 2.12 (GPA) |
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GPA Types
UNMC IPAP calculates several GPA types, including:
Year-level GPAs
Using Quality Points, UNMC IPAP calculates a GPA for each academic year. GPAs from your Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, and Senior academic years are subsequently:
- Combined with any post-baccalaureate coursework to create a cumulative undergraduate GPA, and
- Combined with any post-baccalaureate coursework plus any graduate coursework to create an overall GPA.
Year-Level GPA Example:
|
Year |
Credits |
Quality Points |
GPA |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Freshman |
66 |
166.2 |
2.52 |
|
Sophomore |
48 |
119.4 |
2.49 |
|
Junior |
66 |
223.2 |
3.38 |
|
Senior |
60 |
169.2 |
2.82 |
|
Total |
240 |
678.0 |
2.83 |
|
Post-Baccalaureate |
28 |
112.0 |
4.00 |
|
Cumulative Undergraduate |
268 |
790.0 |
2.95 |
|
Graduate |
66 |
245.4 |
3.72 |
|
Overall |
334 |
1035.4 |
3.10 |