Egypt GPA Calculator: Percentage to GPA and Back
Turn an Egyptian university percentage into a 4.0 GPA, or a GPA back into the percentage and general grade it stands for — using a table an Egyptian university publishes, not a US one.
Egyptian percentage to 4.0 GPA
A- (Excellent) · 85–89.99%
Mapped with the transfer table in Ain Shams University's 2018 engineering bylaw. The 85/75/65/50 general-grade cut-offs are the most common, but each faculty sets its own and some pass at 60%.
Conversions are approximate. For official applications, use a NACES evaluator such as WES.
4.0 GPA to Egyptian percentage
A- (Excellent)
Mapped with the transfer table in Ain Shams University's 2018 engineering bylaw. The 85/75/65/50 general-grade cut-offs are the most common, but each faculty sets its own and some pass at 60%.
Conversions are approximate. For official applications, use a NACES evaluator such as WES.
Egyptian percentage, general grade and 4.0 GPA
| Grade | Range | Approx. GPA |
|---|---|---|
| A+ — Excellent (ممتاز) | 95–100% | 4.0 |
| A — Excellent | 90 to under 95% | 4.0 |
| A− — Excellent | 85 to under 90% | 3.7 |
| B+ — Very Good (جيد جدا) | 80 to under 85% | 3.3 |
| B — Very Good | 75 to under 80% | 3.0 |
| B− — Good (جيد) | 71 to under 75% | 2.7 |
| C+ — Good | 68 to under 71% | 2.3 |
| C — Good | 65 to under 68% | 2.0 |
| C− — Pass (مقبول) | 60 to under 65% | 1.7 |
| D+ — Pass | 55 to under 60% | 1.3 |
| D — Pass | 50 to under 55% | 1.0 |
| F — Weak (ضعيف), fail | Under 50% | 0.0 |
How a credit-hour course is graded (Ain Shams engineering)
The table above converts a percentage earned under the traditional system, where 50% passes. Credit-hour courses are marked on their own, stricter scale — this one is from Ain Shams University’s 2018 engineering bylaw, where 60% is the pass line. Other faculties publish different cut-offs.
| Course mark | Letter | Grade points |
|---|---|---|
| 97–100% | A+ | 4.0 |
| 93 to under 97% | A | 4.0 |
| 89 to under 93% | A− | 3.7 |
| 84 to under 89% | B+ | 3.3 |
| 80 to under 84% | B | 3.0 |
| 76 to under 80% | B− | 2.7 |
| 73 to under 76% | C+ | 2.3 |
| 70 to under 73% | C | 2.0 |
| 67 to under 70% | C− | 1.7 |
| 64 to under 67% | D+ | 1.3 |
| 60 to under 64% | D | 1.0 |
| Under 60% | F | 0.0 |
Conversion formulas
- Course points (credit-hour system): Course points = credit hours × grade points. A B+ (3.3) in a 3-credit course earns 9.9 points.
- Semester and cumulative GPA: GPA = Σ(credit hours × grade points) ÷ Σ(credit hours). The semester GPA uses that semester’s courses; the cumulative GPA uses every course taken, under your faculty’s rules for repeated courses. A B+ in a 3-credit course, an A in a 2-credit course and a C+ in a 3-credit course give (9.9 + 8.0 + 6.9) ÷ 8 = 3.10.
- Traditional general grade: The bachelor’s general grade (al-taqdir al-‘am) is worked out from the total marks earned across all years of study, expressed as a percentage, and graduates are ranked by that total. A course you previously failed counts at no better than Pass.
Percentage or credit hours: which system is on your transcript?
Egyptian universities run two grading systems side by side, and the first step is working out which one you are in. Under the traditional system, the long-standing model at public universities, each course is marked out of a total, and every year — and the degree as a whole — ends in a percentage with a general grade attached: Excellent (ممتاز), Very Good (جيد جدا), Good (جيد) or Pass (مقبول), with Weak (ضعيف) and Very Weak (ضعيف جدا) for a fail. The names are fixed nationally by the executive regulations of the Universities Organization Law; the percentages behind them are set faculty by faculty.
The credit-hour system (nizam al-sa‘at al-mu‘tamada) gives each course a letter grade and grade points and reports a cumulative GPA out of 4.0. It runs in credit-hour programmes inside public universities — such as the Ain Shams engineering programmes this page draws on — and at private and international universities such as the American University in Cairo. If your transcript already shows a CGPA, it is on a 4.0 scale and needs no converting. Use the converter above for a traditional-system percentage; to work out a CGPA from letter grades, enter your courses in the GPA calculator on the 4.0 scale with +/−, whose points match the Ain Shams table.
Why 85% can be an A− in one table and a B+ in the other
The two tables on this page give different answers for the same mark, and that is deliberate. A traditional course is passed at 50%, so Ain Shams converts a traditional 85% to an A− (3.7). In its own credit-hour courses the pass line is 60% and an A needs 93%, so an 85% there is a B+ (3.3). Further down the gap widens: a traditional 62% converts to a C− (1.7) while 62% in a credit-hour course is a D (1.0), and 55% is a pass under one scale and an F under the other.
Grade points are not uniform either. At Future University in Egypt’s computer science faculty an A is worth 3.70, not 4.0 — only an A+ (96% and above) earns 4.00 — and a D+ is worth 2.00, so a “3.7” from that faculty and a 3.7 from Ain Shams describe different marks. AUC uses the familiar US letters and points but publishes no percentage equivalents, and its English labels do not line up with the national general grades: AUC calls a B+ “very good” and a B− “good”, while a jayyid jiddan from a public university covers roughly B to B+.
Converting an Egyptian degree for study abroad
No Egyptian authority publishes an official table for turning a percentage into a US GPA, so the figure an admissions office acts on comes from a credential evaluator such as WES, working course by course from your transcript. Universities abroad usually set their bar as a general grade rather than a GPA. Simon Fraser University’s graduate school, for example, asks Egyptian applicants for a bachelor’s with an overall Very Good, 80%, and records two Egyptian scales: on its sciences scale Very Good is 75–84%, on its arts scale Excellent starts at 90% and Very Good at 80%.
Two practical points follow. Send the grading key: Nuffic, the Dutch recognition agency, notes that Egyptian institutions use different scales and often print theirs on the back of the transcript, and an evaluator needs it to read your marks correctly. And quote your general grade and percentage exactly as the transcript states them — “Very Good, 78.4%” — with any converted GPA as supporting detail rather than a replacement.
Where these figures come from
- Ain Shams University, Faculty of Engineering — 2018 Bylaw, Article 33: equivalent grades when moving from the semester-based (percentage) system to credit hours
- Ain Shams University, Faculty of Engineering — 2018 Bylaw, Article 25: credit-hour course grades and points
- Ain Shams University, Faculty of Engineering — 2018 Bylaw, Article 28: calculation of the cumulative GPA
- Assiut University — Education system: the general grades set by the Executive Regulations of the Universities Organization Law
- The American University in Cairo — Grading and examination
- Future University in Egypt, Faculty of Computer Science — regulations and grade points
- Alexandria University — Academic system (postgraduate admission)
- Simon Fraser University Graduate Studies — Egypt: requirements and grading scales
- Nuffic — Egypt: grades and study results
No national body publishes a percentage-to-GPA table for Egypt. The executive regulations of the Universities Organization Law fix only the names of the general grades — Excellent, Very Good, Good and Pass, with Weak and Very Weak for a fail — and leave the percentage cut-offs to each faculty’s bylaw. The converter uses Ain Shams engineering’s Article 33 table, which was written for moving individual courses from the semester-based system into credit hours; applying it to a whole-degree average is our extrapolation, not the university’s rule. The 85/75/65/50 cut-offs it shares with many faculties are common, not universal: SFU records an Egyptian arts scale with Excellent at 90% and Very Good at 80%, and Nuffic’s example faculty passes at 60%.
Conversions are approximate by nature. For official admissions, use a NACES credential evaluator such as WES and confirm with your institution.
Egypt conversion FAQ
What is 85% in GPA in Egypt?
Under the traditional system, 85% is the bottom of Excellent and converts to an A− (3.7) on Ain Shams University’s table; 90% and above is an A (4.0). In an Ain Shams credit-hour engineering course, where grading is stricter, 85% is a B+ (3.3).
What GPA is Very Good (جيد جدا) in Egypt?
Very Good usually covers 75% to under 85%, which converts to 3.0–3.3: 75–79.99% is a B (3.0) and 80–84.99% a B+ (3.3). Some arts faculties start Very Good at 80%, so check the key on your transcript.
What is a 3.0 GPA in percentage in Egypt?
On the traditional-system table a 3.0 is a B, 75% to under 80% — the lower half of Very Good. In an Ain Shams credit-hour course a B needs 80% to under 84%.
How is CGPA calculated in Egyptian credit-hour programmes?
Multiply each course’s grade points by its credit hours, add them up, and divide by the total credit hours. A B+ in a 3-credit course, an A in a 2-credit course and a C+ in a 3-credit course give (9.9 + 8.0 + 6.9) ÷ 8 = 3.10. At Ain Shams engineering you need a CGPA of at least 2.0 to graduate, and a semester GPA under 2.0 means academic probation.
Does a Thanaweya Amma percentage convert to a GPA?
No. The Thanaweya Amma (general secondary certificate) is a total of marks quoted as a percentage and used for university placement through tansik. It measures something different from a university percentage, and evaluators assess it separately — do not run it through the university table above.
Is a Good (جيد) degree enough for a master’s?
In Egypt it can be: Alexandria University accepts a first degree graded at least Good for postgraduate study. Abroad the bar is usually higher — Simon Fraser University asks for Very Good (80%) — and competitive programmes weigh your percentage and class rank, not just the grade.
Grade conversion for other countries
Converting a transcript from somewhere else? These pages use each country's own grading scale.