KFUPM GPA Calculator on Saudi Arabia 4.0 Scale

How the KFUPM GPA Calculator Works (4.0 Scale, A = 3.75, Credit Hours)

The KFUPM GPA calculator above runs the same credit-weighted cumulative average that the KFUPM Registrar posts on every official transcript and the KFUPM Student Portal. Each course letter grade converts to grade points on the KFUPM nine-grade 4.0 scale, the grade points are multiplied by the credit hours the course carries, the products are summed across the transcript, and the total is divided by the cumulative credit hours attempted. The result is your cumulative GPA on the standard 0.00 to 4.00 axis, identical to the number the KFUPM Student Portal computes after every regular semester.

The KFUPM-specific detail that matters for accuracy is the A letter, which is worth 3.75 grade points at KFUPM rather than the 4.00 that KSU, KAU, KAUST, and most US universities award. Only the A+ letter carries the full 4.00 at KFUPM, and A+ is reserved for course-level exam performance at or above 95 percent in the syllabus weighting. The KFUPM Undergraduate Bulletin documents this convention in the Registrar grading reference, and credential evaluators (WES, ECE, Scholaro) read the printed transcript at face value without rescaling the A letter upward. A KFUPM CGPA of 3.50 therefore reads as 3.50 on a US graduate-school application, the same way a 3.50 from KSU or KAU would, because the KFUPM CGPA is already on the standard 0.00 to 4.00 axis.

KFUPM Letter Grade Scale with Grade Points and Percentage Bands

The reference table below is the canonical KFUPM 4.0 scale used by every KFUPM undergraduate college (Petroleum, Engineering, Computing, Sciences, Industrial Management, Architecture, and Design). The grade points are fixed by the KFUPM Registrar; the percentage cutoffs are the standard course-level bands and may shift by one or two points on courses that publish a custom syllabus rubric. The calculator widget above uses this exact mapping, and the result it returns matches the CGPA posted on the KFUPM Student Portal once every course is entered.

* At KFUPM, A+ carries the full 4.00 grade points and A carries 3.75. This A = 3.75 cap is the published KFUPM Undergraduate Bulletin convention; KSU, KAU, KAUST, and most other Saudi and US universities award A the full 4.00. The KFUPM convention is institution-specific and is read at face value by WES, ECE, and Scholaro without rescaling. A small number of older KFUPM transcripts (pre-2010) printed only the GP column without the letter and used a slightly different band cutoff at 85 versus 86 percent for B+; current transcripts use the band table above.

How to Calculate Your KFUPM Cumulative GPA with Credit-Hour Weighting

KFUPM uses the credit-hour weighted formula for both semester GPA and cumulative GPA. Multiply each course KFUPM grade points by its credit hours to get quality points; sum the quality points across every course on the transcript; divide by the total credit hours. The formula below is the canonical version published in the KFUPM Undergraduate Bulletin and applied by the KFUPM Registrar on every official transcript.

Worked example: a College of Petroleum Engineering student at KFUPM takes the following five courses in one regular semester. Petroleum Engineering Fundamentals (3 credit hours, A = 3.75 grade points), Engineering Mathematics III (4 credit hours, B+ = 3.50), Engineering Drawing (2 credit hours, A+ = 4.00), Islamic Culture (3 credit hours, B = 3.00), and Technical English (3 credit hours, A = 3.75). Quality points: (3.75 x 3) + (3.50 x 4) + (4.00 x 2) + (3.00 x 3) + (3.75 x 3) = 11.25 + 14.00 + 8.00 + 9.00 + 11.25 = 53.50. Total credit hours: 15. Semester GPA = 53.50 / 15 = 3.57 out of 4.0, which lands in the Second Honors band on the KFUPM Registrar scale and qualifies the student for Dean\'s List recognition that semester. The exact same computation at KSU or KAU, where A is worth 4.00 instead of 3.75, would produce 3.65 on the same five-course schedule, which is why KFUPM CGPAs typically read about 0.10 to 0.15 lower than KSU or KAU CGPAs for an equivalent academic record.

Two implementation details specific to KFUPM matter for accuracy. First, withdrawal grades (W) and incomplete grades (I) carry credit-bearing notation on the registration record but contribute zero grade points and zero credit hours to the CGPA computation until the I converts to a letter grade in a subsequent semester. The calculator above ignores any row where the credit-hour field is blank or zero, which produces the same result. Second, the KFUPM repeat-course rule applies only when the first attempt earned D+, D, or F under the KFUPM Undergraduate Regulations; a course originally passed at C or above cannot be repeated for CGPA improvement without academic-advisor approval, which is rarely granted outside documented medical or family circumstances.

KFUPM Graduation Honors Bands (First Honors, Second Honors, Dean\'s List)

KFUPM issues two graduation honors that appear on the degree certificate and the official final transcript. First Honors goes to graduates who finish with a cumulative GPA of 3.75 or above; Second Honors goes to graduates with a cumulative GPA between 3.25 and 3.74 inclusive. Both honors are computed at graduation using the full transcript and apply to bachelor degrees across every KFUPM undergraduate college. Separately, Dean\'s List recognition is awarded each regular semester to students who achieve a semester GPA of 3.50 or above while carrying at least 12 credit hours and no grade of D+, D, or F. Dean\'s List recognition is a per-semester award; it appears on the unofficial transcript and the Student Portal but does not become a permanent transcript notation outside the semester it is earned.

KFUPM Colleges and Departments with Major-Progression CGPA Floors

KFUPM is structured around six undergraduate colleges spanning engineering, computing, sciences, industrial management, architecture, and design. The undergraduate bachelor programs follow the standard KFUPM 4.0 scale across every department, but several departments enforce additional CGPA floors for progression into upper-year design, capstone, or specialist coursework. The grid below lists the twelve principal engineering and sciences departments; always confirm the major-progression floor with the home department academic advisor before finalising the degree plan.

The College of Engineering departments (Aerospace, Chemical, Civil, Computer, Electrical, Industrial, Mechanical, Petroleum) typically apply a major-courses CGPA floor of 2.30 to 2.50 for progression into senior design and capstone sequences. The College of Computing (CSE, ICS) applies a similar 2.30 floor for upper-year algorithms and systems coursework. The College of Sciences (Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry) follows the institutional 2.00 graduation minimum without additional college-level floors. The College of Petroleum Engineering and Geosciences applies the most consistently published floor at 2.50 for the senior reservoir-engineering and drilling sequences, because those programs feed directly into Saudi Aramco recruitment pipelines.

KFUPM Repeat-Course Rule and How It Moves Your Cumulative GPA

KFUPM applies a higher-grade-replaces rule for repeated courses. When a student retakes a course in which the original grade was D+, D, or F, the original attempt remains visible on the transcript with an R notation appended next to it, signalling that the course was repeated. The grade points and credit hours from the original attempt are removed from the CGPA computation, and the new attempt enters in their place. The KFUPM Registrar limits repeats per the Undergraduate Regulations: a student may not retake the same course more than twice, and a maximum of around six distinct courses may be repeated across the entire bachelor degree.

The mechanic matters because the KFUPM cumulative GPA can move quickly with one or two strategic repeats. Worked example: a second-year Mechanical Engineering student finishes Semester 2 with a CGPA of 2.30 (Good Standing lower band, trending toward probation). The student repeats two D+ courses in Semester 3 and earns B+ in both. Under the KFUPM repeat rule, the original D+ attempts (1.50 grade points each) drop out of the CGPA, the new B+ attempts (3.50 grade points each) replace them, and the recomputed CGPA rises above 2.70 within a single semester. The same mechanic at KSU or KAU would deliver a slightly larger upward swing because A is worth 4.00 there instead of 3.75, but the KFUPM version is the one printed on the KFUPM transcript and applied by the Registrar at graduation.

Scholarship, Saudi Aramco, and KACST CGPA Thresholds for KFUPM Students

KFUPM publishes several CGPA-anchored recognition and recruitment pipelines that interact with the First and Second Honors bands. Saudi Aramco runs the most competitive KFUPM-specific co-op and full-time recruitment programme, with a typical CGPA floor of 3.25 for co-op interviews and 3.50 for the most competitive full-time engineering offers in the Upstream and Downstream divisions. KACST (King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology) awards research fellowships and graduate-school sponsorships at a similar 3.50 floor. The King Abdullah Scholarship Program (KASP) for Saudi nationals applying to study abroad typically requires 3.50 and above from KFUPM for engineering tracks and 3.25 for sciences tracks. KFUPM\'s own Graduate Studies admission requires a cumulative GPA of 3.00 for direct master admission and 3.30 for the thesis-track research master\'s programmes; PhD admission typically requires a master CGPA of 3.50 or higher with research-stream programmes preferring 3.70.

For graduate-school admissions outside Saudi Arabia, the rough international equivalents are summarised in the honors-band table above. KFUPM graduates applying to US, UK, or Canadian graduate programs can present the cumulative GPA directly because the KFUPM 4.0 scale aligns numerically with the North American 4.0 convention. For binding admission, see the World Education Services (WES) course-by-course evaluation, which Saudi graduates can request directly through the WES Required Documents Portal for Saudi Arabia.

KFUPM in the Saudi University Landscape

Saudi Arabia operates over thirty public and private universities regulated by the Ministry of Education. KFUPM is the flagship engineering and sciences institution and the only Saudi public university to use the A = 3.75 grading convention; every other major Saudi public university (KSU, KAU, KFU) and the postgraduate research institute KAUST award A the full 4.00 grade points. The Islamic-studies universities (IMSIU, Umm Al-Qura, Taibah) historically used a 5.0 scale, although several have migrated toward dual reporting on both the 5.0 and the 4.0 axes. The table below summarises the major Saudi institutions with their primary GPA scale and disciplinary focus.

A few institution-level nuances worth noting for cross-institutional CGPA comparison. KFUPM is the only Saudi public university in this table that publishes A = 3.75; transferring from KFUPM to KSU or KAU typically lifts the CGPA upward by roughly 0.10 to 0.15 points because the receiving institution rescales every A on the incoming transcript to 4.00. KAUST is an all-postgraduate research institution with its own 4.0 scale and admits only at the master\'s and PhD levels; KFUPM bachelor graduates with a CGPA of 3.50 or above are competitive for KAUST direct master admission. IMSIU, Umm Al-Qura, and Taibah continue to issue transcripts on the Saudi 5.0 scale for some programmes, which requires a separate conversion to the 4.0 axis for international graduate-school applications.

How the KFUPM Student Portal CGPA Compares to This Calculator

The KFUPM Student Portal posts an unofficial semester GPA and cumulative GPA after every regular semester, computed by the Registrar system from the grades each instructor submits. The portal CGPA reflects every credit-bearing course on the transcript including transferred credits accepted at KFUPM (which carry credit hours but no grade points and therefore do not move the CGPA in either direction), incomplete grades carried over from prior semesters, and any pending grade changes for repeat-course attempts. The portal CGPA usually appears within one to two weeks of the semester closing.

The calculator above reproduces the portal computation for any combination of courses you enter, with two caveats. First, transfer credits that carry credit hours but no letter grade do not appear in this calculator because the input requires a letter grade per row; if you want to match the portal computation exactly while excluding transfer credits, omit transferred courses from the input. Second, the calculator does not automatically detect duplicate course codes for the repeat-course rule; to apply the higher-grade-replaces rule, enter only the higher of the two attempts in the calculator, which matches the rule the Registrar applies after the second-attempt grade is officially posted. Within those two caveats, the calculator number matches the portal CGPA to two decimal places.

KFUPM CGPA Rounding and Threshold Behaviour

The KFUPM Registrar rounds the final cumulative GPA to two decimal places using standard half-up rounding (3.495 rounds to 3.50; 3.745 rounds to 3.75). For First Honors and Dean\'s List eligibility the threshold check uses the rounded value, which can occasionally tip a borderline student into First Honors (3.75) when the unrounded CGPA sits at 3.7450 or higher. The calculator above also rounds to two decimal places for display while keeping the underlying number unrounded for the honors-band check, which matches the Registrar behaviour at the threshold lines of 2.00, 2.50, 3.25, and 3.75. If you are within one or two hundredths of an honors threshold, request a Registrar review before assuming the displayed band; the Registrar applies the rounded comparison and the difference can affect graduation honors, scholarship renewal, and graduate-school admission.

Semester GPA versus Cumulative CGPA at KFUPM

KFUPM posts two distinct GPA numbers on every unofficial transcript: the semester GPA and the cumulative GPA (CGPA). The semester GPA divides the sum of (grade points x credit hours) for courses taken in the current regular semester only by the total credit hours of those semester courses; it reflects performance in that semester in isolation. The cumulative GPA divides the sum of (grade points x credit hours) across every credit-bearing course on the full transcript by the total credit hours attempted across the entire degree; it reflects standing across the whole degree.

Both numbers appear on the KFUPM Student Portal after every regular semester. Dean\'s List recognition and the academic-probation triggers use the semester GPA. The graduation honors band (First Honors, Second Honors), the major-progression rules at the engineering colleges, and the entry floor for KFUPM master\'s direct admission all use the cumulative GPA. The calculator above can be used for either: enter only the current semester\'s courses to compute the semester GPA, or enter every completed course on the transcript to compute the CGPA.

This KFUPM GPA calculator estimates your King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals cumulative GPA using the credit-weighted formula and the KFUPM 4.0 scale (A = 3.75, A+ = 4.00) published by the KFUPM Registrar. The official CGPA on your transcript is computed by the Registrar from instructor-submitted grades and applies institution-specific rules for withdrawal grades, incomplete grades, transfer credits, course repetition limits, and college-level major-progression floors. Always verify against your KFUPM Student Portal and your academic advisor before applying for scholarships, Saudi Aramco co-op selection, graduate school, or major progression. Sources: KFUPM Undergraduate Bulletin and Registrar grading reference, Scholaro Saudi Arabia grading-system reference. For the broader Saudi GPA hub covering KSU, KAU, KAUST, and the standard Saudi 4.0 and 5.0 scales, see the Saudi Arabia GPA calculator. Last verified: 2026-05-26.

Related Gulf and International GPA Resources

Looking for a different Saudi or Gulf grading scale? The Saudi Arabia GPA hub covers KSU, KAU, KFU, KAUST, and the standard Saudi 4.0 and 5.0 university scales (the only Saudi public university with the A = 3.75 convention is KFUPM, which this page handles directly). For neighbouring Gulf institutions, the UAE GPA hub covers UAEU, AUS, Khalifa University, Zayed University, and the Higher Colleges of Technology on the standardised plus and minus 4.0 scale, and the Bahrain GPA hub covers the University of Bahrain and AUBH. For graduates planning to apply to US graduate programmes, the US GPA calculator handles the standard 4.0 conversion; the CGPA to GPA converter returns a quick band-mapped result without entering individual courses.