Grade Inflation

This tool visualizes how the average GPA has changed over the last 20 years at the University of Maryland — College Park. You can search for an entire department (e.g. "MATH" for the math department) or for a specific course (e.g. "CMSC131"). Clicking the ‘View All Courses’ button shows the average GPA of all courses combined since Spring 1998.

 You can search for a department or course. For example, "ENGL" or "ENGL101".
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All Courses2.402.602.803.003.203.403.603.80Average GPA1998 S1998 F1999 S1999 F2000 S2000 F2001 S2001 F2002 S2002 F2003 S2003 F2004 S2004 F2005 S2005 F2006 S2006 F2007 S2007 F2008 S2008 F2009 S2009 F2010 S2010 F2011 S2011 F2012 S2012 F2013 S2013 F2014 S2014 F2015 S2015 F2016 S2016 F2017 S2017 F2018 S2018 F2019 S2019 F2020 S2020 F2021 S2021 F2022 S2022 F2023 S2023 F2024 S2024 F2025 SSemesterSpring 1998All Courses: 2.81Fall 1998All Courses: 2.81Spring 1999All Courses: 2.84Fall 1999All Courses: 2.85Spring 2000All Courses: 2.89Fall 2000All Courses: 2.90Spring 2001All Courses: 2.95Fall 2001All Courses: 2.89Spring 2002All Courses: 2.95Fall 2002All Courses: 2.94Spring 2003All Courses: 3.01Fall 2003All Courses: 2.98Spring 2004All Courses: 3.02Fall 2004All Courses: 3.00Spring 2005All Courses: 3.05Fall 2005All Courses: 3.01Spring 2006All Courses: 3.06Fall 2006All Courses: 3.03Spring 2007All Courses: 3.06Fall 2007All Courses: 3.05Spring 2008All Courses: 3.08Fall 2008All Courses: 3.07Spring 2009All Courses: 3.10Fall 2009All Courses: 3.07Spring 2010All Courses: 3.11Fall 2010All Courses: 3.05Spring 2011All Courses: 3.13Fall 2011All Courses: 3.13Spring 2012All Courses: 3.08Fall 2012All Courses: 3.08Spring 2013All Courses: 3.11Fall 2013All Courses: 3.12Spring 2014All Courses: 3.14Fall 2014All Courses: 3.12Spring 2015All Courses: 3.13Fall 2015All Courses: 3.12Spring 2016All Courses: 3.15Fall 2016All Courses: 3.15Spring 2017All Courses: 3.18Fall 2017All Courses: 3.17Spring 2018All Courses: 3.20Fall 2018All Courses: 3.18Spring 2019All Courses: 3.21Fall 2019All Courses: 3.20Spring 2020All Courses: 3.58Fall 2020All Courses: 3.28Spring 2021All Courses: 3.43Fall 2021All Courses: 3.27Spring 2022All Courses: 3.30Fall 2022All Courses: 3.26Spring 2023All Courses: 3.34Fall 2023All Courses: 3.34Spring 2024All Courses: 3.38Fall 2024All Courses: 3.39Spring 2025All Courses: 3.41

"1998 S" means "1998 Spring"; "1998 F" means "1998 Fall".

GPA calculations are done according to UMD’s grade to quality points rules. All withdrawals (W) are considered to be 0.0 quality points.

There is an error in which Fall 2008 and Fall 2009 have identical grade data. We are requesting the correct data and will update this chart when we receive it.

Data is not guaranteed to be correct. The source of the grade data can be found here.