Applies to 13 countries: Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Japan, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Pakistan, the United Kingdom and the United States
An international GPA calculator works out your GPA on your own country’s grading system - the US 4.0 scale, UK classifications, the Australian 7-point scale, Indian CGPA, Bangladeshi, Nigerian and Pakistani scales, and more. Most GPA calculators assume the American 4.0 scale. Yours might be a 7-point scale, a 10-point CGPA, an inverted 1.0-to-5.0, or not a GPA at all. Choose your country below - and where its universities run genuinely different scales, as in Canada or India, choose your university as well.
Grading is not a shared standard - it is a set of local conventions that happen to use similar-looking numbers. A 2.0 is a solid pass in America and a very good result in Germany, where the scale runs the other way. A 12 out of 20 in France is genuinely good, not a near-fail. The UK does not use GPA at all: it awards a degree classification built from a credit-weighted average of your final years.
Canada is the clearest case. Depending on the university you might be graded on a 4.0 scale, a 4.33 scale, a 9-point scale, a 12-point scale, or a straight percentage - all at once, in the same country. York University's own Academic Calendar sets out a 9-point scale where A+ = 9 and notes that the percentages often quoted alongside it "are not part of the official grading scheme and are meant only to be used as guidelines." McMaster and Wilfrid Laurier run 12-point scales. Waterloo reports percentages.
India has the same problem in a different form. The UGC's 10-point scale is a recommendation rather than a mandate, and universities convert CGPA to percentage using different formulas: Anna University multiplies by 10, VTU subtracts 0.75 first, Mumbai University uses a different formula again. On an 8.0 CGPA those choices produce answers several percentage points apart - enough to cross a classification boundary. The familiar CGPA x 9.5 rule is a CBSE Class 10 convention, not a universal one, and applying it to a university CGPA gives a number your registrar would not recognise.
Bangladesh runs two scales at once: SSC and HSC school results top out at a 5.00 GPA, while university CGPA tops out at 4.00 - and the two are routinely confused when transcripts travel abroad, which is why they are separate entries here. Nigeria's 5-point CGPA maps onto degree classes whose boundaries each university sets for itself, and Pakistani marksheets are usually percentages, with each institution layering its own CGPA conversion on top - so the percentage is the figure this tool works from.
That is why this tool asks which institution you are at, rather than quietly picking one convention and hoping.
This calculator deliberately does not hand you a confident "your 8.2 CGPA equals a 3.6 US GPA" number. Not because it would be hard to compute, but because the organisations whose job this actually is decline to make that claim themselves.
The UK's national recognition body, UK ENIC, goes further: its official Statement of Comparability compares the level of a qualification and explicitly does not comment on grades at all. If the body whose entire remit is recognising foreign qualifications will not convert a grade, a calculator claiming to do it precisely is overselling.
If you need a conversion that an admissions office or immigration authority will accept, that comes from an accredited credential evaluation - WES, UK ENIC, or uni-assist for Germany - working from your original transcript and your registrar's grading key. What a calculator can honestly give you is your GPA on your own system, correctly computed, which is the number your transcript will actually show.
| System | Scale | Top result | Pass |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 4.0 (some 4.3), convention not standard | A / A+ = 4.0 | D- = 0.7 |
| Canada | 4.0 / 9 / 12 / percentage | varies by university | varies |
| Australia | 7-point | High Distinction = 7 | Pass = 4 (50%) |
| United Kingdom | classification, not GPA | First Class (70%+) | Third (40%), ordinary 35-39% |
| India | 10-point CGPA | O (Outstanding) = 10 | P = 4 |
| Germany (university) | 1.0-5.0, inverted | 1.0 (sehr gut) | 4.0 (ausreichend) |
| Germany (school) | 1-6, inverted | 1 (sehr gut) | 4 (ausreichend) |
| Germany (Abitur) | 0-15 points, higher is better | 15 (Note 1+) | 5 points (Note 4) |
| France (baccalauréat) | 0-20 | 18+ (félicitations du jury) | 10/20 |
| Netherlands | 1-10 | 10 (0.1% of top VWO graduates) | 6 formally, 5.5 by rounding |
| Bangladesh (school) | 5.00 GPA | A+ = 5.00 | D = 1.00 |
| Bangladesh (university) | 4.00 CGPA | A+ = 4.00 | D = 2.00 |
| Nigeria | 5-point CGPA | A = 5 (70%+) | E = 1 (40%) |
| Pakistan (IBCC, from 2026) | 10-point letters, 0-100 | A++ (95-100) | 40 |
| Pakistan (legacy divisions) | percentage, 0-100 | 80+ (distinction) | 33 |
| China | percentage, 0-100 (no national GPA mandate) | 90+ (excellent) | 60 |
| Japan | S/A/B/C/F, no national standard | S = 4.0 or 4.3 | C (60%) |
Every scale on this page was verified against the issuing body’s own document where one could be retrieved: UBC Student Services for the UBC percentage bands, the U of A Registrar’s GFC Marking and Grading Guidelines, York’s 2025-26 Undergraduate Calendar, the IBCC’s own FAQ for the new Pakistani letter scale, Légifrance article D334-4 for the French mentions, Nuffic for the Dutch bands, and the KMK Abitur agreement.
Three figures rest on corroboration rather than on the document itself, and it would be wrong to describe them as primary-source verified. The Nigerian NUC BMAS and CCMAS standards, a Chinese Ministry of Education grading document, and the KMK resolution of 3 October 1968 defining the six school grades could not be retrieved directly. The German school grades are confirmed through the binding Baden-Württemberg Notenbildungsverordnung, which is primary; the Nigerian and Chinese figures are corroborated across multiple institutional sources that agree with each other. They are the most likely to be out of date, so check them against your own institution before relying on them.
For the United States, China and Japan there is no national authority to cite at all. What those entries state is the dominant convention, labelled as convention, with the institutional variation named rather than averaged away.
Related: the grade calculator works out what you need on a final exam to hit a target, and the percentage calculator handles the arithmetic behind weighted averages.
There is no single official conversion - each institution sets its own. Common approximations exist for UK classifications, the Australian 7-point scale and Indian CGPA, but for admissions or immigration you need an accredited credential evaluation, not a self-conversion.
They are broadly treated as comparable, but they are not equivalent measures. A First is a degree classification based on final marks; a GPA is a running average of graded courses. Institutions map between them differently.