University of Delaware student-athletes posted their best semester grade point average (GPA) ever during the spring 2026 term with a 3.405. The term GPA puts the 2025-26 department-wide mark at 3.365, ...

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Many college graduates are leaving school this season with near-perfect GPAs. Sure, many are high-achieving, smart students, but as the number of students receiving top grades continues to rise, it is ...

Higher education is in trouble — and grades are losing their meaning. That’s the verdict a committee from Yale University reached last month in a report that said universities have strayed from their ...

Faculty members overwhelmingly approved a limit on the number of top grades they can give to about a fifth of their undergraduate classes. By Mark Arsenault Faculty members at Harvard University voted ...

At a time when it's easier than ever to earn an A at Harvard, faculty will vote this week on a measure that would limit how many top grades they can hand out to students in each class. A's now ...

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Alexandria Westray is a senior at Harvard. A government major from Pittsburgh, she says limiting As would hurt students’ futures. “It's a farce to say that there's nothing distinguishing Harvard ...

Line graph of average grade given by divisions from 2005-2024 With grade inflation taking an increasingly central place in higher education discourse in recent years, Swarthmore students have stood ...

The SGPA Calculator Web App is a simple and user-friendly tool that allows students to calculate their Semester Grade Point Average (SGPA) based on their subject grades and credits. It helps students ...

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Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences will vote next month on whether to cap the number of A grades that instructors can assign in each course, effectively cutting in half the percentage ...