Major or Minor GPA Calculator

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Overview

This program will allow you to input the credits for each grade relevant to a specific set of courses, a major, or a minor.   It will then calculate your current GPA (blue) in those courses.  By inputting a goal GPA and the total number of relevant credits you plan to take it will calculate what you would need to achieve in those courses to reach your goal GPA (yellow). Courses taken since May 2005 (top) are calculated separately from prior courses (bottom) due to different grading scales.

Part 1 - Calculating Your GPA (For help with this form Contact Us)

Credits Completed Summer 2005 or Later

Instructions ( PART 1 )

Grade
# of Credits
  
Qty Points
1. Locate your transcript.   
             Print out a copy from MyNU or get a copy from Records.
   2. Mark or highlight the relevant courses.
             What courses are relevant to what you want to calculate?
              Major GPA: All NU courses in your major discipline
 

                  (i.e. CRJ for Criminal Justice) and any courses

                    required by your major (i.e. Pol 101 for CRJ).       
              Minor GPA: Include all your NU courses used toward the
                   5 or 6 courses required to complete your minor.
              Overall GPA: Include all your NU courses.  Note:
                   this is slower than using the Overall GPA Calculator.
   3. Input your credits into the gray fields.
             Count the total number of credits for each grade
             Be careful counting variable credit courses. 

Credits Completed BEFORE Summer 2005

 4. Hit Calculate and Your Major/Minor GPA

          will be listed in the blue box.
 
Instructions ( PART 2 )
   5. Input a Goal GPA into the gray field.
   6. Input the Total Semester Hours Attempting
          relevant to your major or minor GPA into the gray field.
   7. Optional F to R Calculations
          These columns are for retaking failed courses under
             the F to R Policy.   The defaults (gray) may be changed.
Total Credits
Your GPA
Quality Points
  8. Hit Calculate again and the GPA required for
        your goal will be shown in the yellow box.

Part 2 - What You Need to Achieve to Reach a Certain GPA Goal

 

GPA with

NO FtoRs

 
(Optional)
(Optional)

GOAL GPA

      2=C, 2.33=C+, 3=B, 3.33=B+, 4=A
The next two columns are optional.  They are
GPA
GPA

TOTAL SEMESTER HOURS ATTEMPTING

       Total # of credits on your current/future

       schedule (15cr for 1 sem or 30cr for 2)

only relevant for

students currently retaking failed courses

Needed

with

Needed

with

CREDITS OF 'F TO Rs' ATTEMPTING

       (optional) Total # of credits you are
under the F to R Policy.

       repeating under the F to R Policy

       (4 course maximum)

Credits
Credits
Total Overall Quality Points
of F to R
of F to Rs
Total Overall Credits Attempted
     
Your Current GPA
Total Semester Hours Expected
# of Grade/Quality Points Needed
# Qty Points Needed for the Desired GPA

GPA YOU NEED TO ACHIEVE NEXT SEMESTER(S) TO REACH YOUR GOAL

Only use the next 2 columns for the F to R Policy option