UMass grading scale at Amherst, and its honours rule
The UMass grading scale runs to three decimal places, A at 4.000 and B+ at 3.300, and UMass awards Latin honours by percentile rather than by a threshold: summa to the top five per cent of each school or college. It then publishes what that percentile actually came to, per school, which for recent graduates runs to figures such as 3.988. That published realised cut-off is the most useful number on any honours page.
What UMass Amherst publishes
| What | Figure | The registrar's own words | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Top grade points | 4 grade points | "A 4.000 A- 3.7000 B+ 3.300 B 3.000 B- 2.700 C+ 2.300 C 2.000" | UMass Amherst grading system and GPA calculation checked October 2026 |
| B+ grade points | 3.3 grade points | "A 4.000 A- 3.7000 B+ 3.300 B 3.000 B- 2.700 C+ 2.300 C 2.000" | UMass Amherst grading system and GPA calculation (three decimal places) checked October 2026 |
| Summa cum laude GPA | publishes no such figure | UMass Amherst Latin honors checked October 2026 |
UMass Amherst scale families, evidenced
UMass Amherst maintains its own pages for 1 of the scale families this index compares.
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