A 2.67 GPA is a straight B- on the plus/minus 4.0 scales that print a B- as 2.67, Fairleigh Dickinson's among them; College Board's high-school chart, which records whole letters only, puts a B at 80 to 89%, and a 2.67 is above the 2.0 under which UMBC places a student on academic probation. That reading holds only on the scale it is calculated on: the same B+ is worth 3.3 at some institutions in this index, 3.33 at others, 3.3333 at one and 3.5 at one with no minus grades, so a 2.67 earned in one place is not the same work as a 2.67 earned in another.
2.67 GPA meaning: the grades that produce it
On a plus/minus 4.0 scale a 2.67 is roughly a straight run of B- grades on a scale that prints B- as 2.67, weighted by credit hours rather than by course count. Oregon State states the arithmetic in the clearest published form on this shelf, printing its table as grade points per credit rather than as a bare lookup, which is why a three-credit course moves the average three times as far as a one-credit one. Nothing about that calculation is national: it is your institution's.
The same number on a different scale
South Carolina prints a scale with no minus grades, where a B+ is 3.5 rather than 3.3. Arizona State records an A+ at 4.33 while capping the cumulative average at 4.00. Memphis prints an A- at 3.84 where almost everyone else prints 3.67 or 3.7. A transcript producing 2.67 at one of those institutions would produce a different figure at the others on identical work, which is the single most useful thing to know before comparing your number with anyone else's.
What the number is made of
A cumulative average is a weighted mean of grade points, and the weight is credit hours. A three-credit course moves the average three times as far as a one-credit course, which is why the same letter in two different classes has two different effects. Institutions publish this as grade points per credit rather than as a lookup for exactly that reason.
Questions people ask about 2.67 GPA
Is a 2.67 GPA good?
It keeps a student in good standing and not much more: a 2.67 is above the 2.0 below which UMBC places a student on academic probation, and well under the 3.5 where UMBC's cum laude band begins. Against your own institution's rules, its registrar page is the only authority.
Is 2.67 GPA bad?
Bad, like good, is only measurable against a published rule. Against honours rules a 2.67 sits below both fixed summa cum laude thresholds in this index, UConn's floor of 3.7 and UMBC's band from 3.95; against good standing, the figure that decides it is your own institution's published minimum cumulative average.
What is a 2.67 GPA in grade terms?
On a plus/minus 4.0 scale, roughly a straight run of B- grades on a scale that prints B- as 2.67. On a scale without minus grades the mix is different, and on a scale recording an A+ above four it is different again.
What does GPA 2.67 mean?
GPA 2.67 means a grade point average of 2.67 on the scale it was calculated on. On the commonest American plus/minus 4.0 scale that is a straight B-, averaged over every graded course and weighted by credit hours. The same 2.67 on another institution's scale is different work, so your registrar's own table is the one that governs it.
Does a 2.67 mean the same everywhere?
No. A transcript line reading "GPA: 2.67" means only what that institution's scale says it means, and the scales differ. Two institutions in this index price a B+ 0.2 of a grade point apart, 3.3 at one and 3.5 at the other, which over a full transcript is worth more than the width of most honours bands.