Canada to US GPA Conversion

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Canadian grades to US GPA

The Ontario Universities’ Application Centre (OUAC) publishes the conversion that Ontario’s medical and law school applications (OMSAS, OLSAS) use for every Canadian scale. On the percentage scale used by Toronto, Western and Queen’s:

Band	Percentage	Letter	US 4.0 points
Excellent	90–100%	A+	4.0
	85–89%	A	3.9
	80–84%	A−	3.7
Good	77–79%	B+	3.3
	73–76%	B	3.0
	70–72%	B−	2.7
Average	67–69%	C+	2.3
	63–66%	C	2.0
	60–62%	C−	1.7
Low pass	57–59%	D+	1.3
	53–56%	D	1.0
	50–52%	D−	0.7
Fail	0–49%	F	0.0

Your university’s scale decides which OUAC column applies, so the calculator has each one under Canadian scale: percentages, letter grades with A+ at the top (Toronto, UBC, McMaster, Ottawa, Alberta), McGill’s letters with A at the top, McMaster’s 12-point grades and Ontario high school percentages.

US GPA to a Canadian percentage

Read the OUAC table the other way to see where a US GPA sits on a Canadian percentage scale. The US GPA → Canadian converter gives the band of the highest OUAC grade your GPA reaches, then checks it against seven universities’ master’s minimums (next section):

Band	US GPA	Canadian percentage	Letter
Excellent	4.0	90–100%	A+
	3.9	85–89%	A
	3.7–3.8	80–84%	A−
Good	3.3–3.6	77–79%	B+
	3.0–3.2	73–76%	B
	2.7–2.9	70–72%	B−
Average	2.3–2.6	67–69%	C+
	2.0–2.2	63–66%	C

Minimum US GPA at Canadian universities

Canadian degrees have no classes like the UK’s First or 2:1, so there is no Canadian class to match a US GPA to. What graduate schools publish instead is the lowest US GPA they accept for a master’s with a US bachelor’s degree. Seven list a number:

University	Minimum US GPA	What it counts
Toronto	3.0	Final year
UBC	3.3	Years 3 and 4
Alberta	3.0	Last 2 years
Waterloo	3.0	Whole degree
SFU	3.0	Whole degree
Ottawa	2.7	Last 20 courses
Saskatchewan	3.0	Not stated

The converter checks your GPA against all seven; pick one university under Compare with to see its minimum alone. For a PhD, Toronto, UBC and Ottawa ask for 3.3, counted on your master’s. We found no US GPA on the graduate pages of McGill, Western, Queen’s, Dalhousie or Calgary, which state their minimums on their own scales, so they aren’t listed.

The same 3.0 stands for different Canadian grades: Toronto’s mid-B, Waterloo’s 75% and, on SFU’s page, a B+ and 76%. Each university reads your transcript its own way, so go by its US GPA, not a percentage you worked out yourself.

How Canadian university grading works

There is no national scale. Most universities use percentages with letter grades from A+ to F and 50% as the pass mark, but the cut-offs and grade points differ:

University	Scale	Example
Toronto	Percent, A+ to F, 4.0 points	77–79% = B+ (3.3)
McGill	Letters, A to F, 4.0 points	85–100% = A (4.0)
UBC	Percent and letters, no points	76–79% = B+
McMaster	12-point scale	9 = B+ (77–79%)

Course weights also differ: a half-year course is 0.5 creditAt the University of Toronto a full-year course is 1.0 credit (one FCE) and a half-year course 0.5; at UBC a standard year is 30 credits. at Toronto, while a full year at UBC is 30 credits. Enter what your transcript shows; only the ratio matters.

Worked example: four courses

Say four 3-credit courses ended at 85%, 78%, 72% and 88% on the percentage scale (this is Try a sample):

Course	Percentage	US points
Calculus I	85%	3.9
Psychology	78%	3.3
Microeconomics	72%	2.7
Writing	88%	3.9

US GPA = (3.9 + 3.3 + 2.7 + 3.9) ÷ 4 = 3.45, from an 80.75% Canadian average (80.8% in the calculator).

High school grades

Ontario high schools report percentages. For US college applications the converter uses Scholaro’s Ontario table: 90–100% is an A+, 80–89% an A, 70–79% a B, 60–69% a C and 50–59% a D. It is an evaluator’s reading, not an admissions rule, so send your report card as it is.