Cumulative GPA Calculator
Enter your prior cumulative GPA and credit hours, plus your new semester’s GPA and credit hours, to calculate your updated cumulative GPA.
Cumulative GPA Calculator
Calculate your new cumulative GPA by combining your prior GPA with a new semester’s GPA and credit hours.
Cumulative GPA is a credit-hour-weighted average across every semester, not a simple average of semester GPAs. This calculator combines your prior cumulative GPA (weighted by prior credit hours) with your new semester’s GPA (weighted by its credit hours) to find your updated overall GPA.
Example
- With the default values shown above, this calculator returns: New Cumulative GPA ≈ 3.280.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why can’t I just average my semester GPAs?
A simple average treats every semester equally regardless of how many credit hours it carried — a credit-hour-weighted calculation (used here) gives a more accurate cumulative GPA when semester course loads differ.
What if this is my first semester?
Set prior credit hours to 0, and the result will simply equal your new semester GPA.