Hong Kong Metropolitan University
WGPA calculator
Quick answer: HKMU runs two different systems, and which one applies to you depends on your programme. Neither averages all your courses: the 5-credit system classifies on a weighted GPA over your best 80 credits — 40 from Group (a) and 40 from Group (b), which your programme may weight differently — and the 3-credit-unit system uses an award GPA over the minimum credit-units needed to graduate, taking your highest grades. In both systems a 3.50 is a First, 3.00 an Upper Second and 2.50 a Lower Second; the 3-credit-unit system adds an unclassified Pass at 1.70, and a degree may exceptionally be conferred with no classification at all.
5-credit system — weighted GPA (WGPA)
Best 80 credits, 40 + 40Enter the courses you expect to count. Group (a) is your Higher level courses; Group (b) is the Higher or Middle level courses not already counted in Group (a). The best 40 credits in each group are used. If your programme weights the two groups differently, change the weight boxes — HKMU does not publish these figures, so they have to come from your programme.
Group (a) — Higher level courses (best 40 credits)
Group (b) — Higher or Middle level, not already in Group (a) (best 40 credits)
3-credit-unit system — award GPA (aGPA)
Minimum credit-units, highest gradesEnter every course you have taken, with the grade from your final attempt — HKMU uses the final attempt even where it is lower than an earlier one. Set the credit-unit total to the minimum your programme requires to graduate; the calculator takes your highest grades up to that total, which is what the regulation does.
All courses counted towards the award
How HKMU calculates your WGPA
Neither system is a plain average of everything you have taken. The 5-credit system computes WGPA = [sum of GP in Group (a) × the Group (a) weight + sum of GP in Group (b) × the Group (b) weight] ÷ [sum of credits in Group (a) × the Group (a) weight + sum of credits in Group (b) × the Group (b) weight], where GP is a course’s grade point multiplied by its credits. The 3-credit-unit system computes aGPA = sum of (grade point × credit-units) over the minimum number of courses required to graduate, divided by the credit-units of those courses.
In the 5-credit system only the best 80 credits of Higher or Middle level courses count, made up of 40 credits of Group (a) Higher level courses and 40 credits of Group (b) courses not already counted. Students admitted with a prescribed Block Credit Transfer who complete fewer than 80 credits use the best 40 credits of Group (a) plus whatever Group (b) credits remain. In the 3-credit-unit system, where a course has been taken more than once, only the final attempt counts — whether that raised the grade or lowered it.
Which system applies to you is set by your programme, not chosen. The 5-credit system uses 5-credit courses and Higher/Middle level groupings; the 3-credit-unit system uses 3-credit-unit courses and covers double degrees and the degree half of a mixed-level dual award.
Honours classification
| CGPA | Classification (5-credit system) |
|---|---|
| 3.50–4.00 | First Class |
| 3.00–3.49 | Second Class (Upper Division) |
| 2.50–2.99 | Second Class (Lower Division) |
| 2.00–2.49 | Third Class |
These are the 5-credit system bands, read against the WGPA. A degree may exceptionally be conferred without classification. The 3-credit-unit system uses the same four thresholds against the aGPA and adds a fifth: an unclassified Pass at 1.70–1.99. Note that its top band runs to 4.30 rather than 4.00, because that system awards an A+ worth 4.3.
Grade points, 5-credit system
| Grade | Grade point |
|---|---|
| A | 4.0 |
| A- | 3.7 |
| B+ | 3.3 |
| B | 3.0 |
| B- | 2.7 |
| C+ | 2.3 |
| C | 2.0 |
Numeric course grades convert to the same points: Pass 1 is 4.0, Pass 2 3.3, Pass 3 2.7 and Pass 4 2.0. There is no A+ in this system, so the scale tops out at 4.00.
Grade points, 3-credit-unit system
| Grade | Grade point |
|---|---|
| A+ | 4.3 |
| A | 4.0 |
| A- | 3.7 |
| B+ | 3.3 |
| B | 3.0 |
| B- | 2.7 |
| C+ | 2.3 |
| C | 2.0 |
| C- | 1.7 |
| D | 1.0 |
| Fail | 0.0 |
This is the system that reaches 4.30, and the one with a D and an explicit Fail.
What these calculators cannot know
Two things have to come from your programme rather than from HKMU’s published rules. The first is the weights given to Group (a) and Group (b) in the 5-credit system: the regulation says they may differ and gives no figures, so the boxes above start equal and you should replace them with your own. The second is which courses sit in which group, and the minimum credit-units your award requires. Get either wrong and the answer moves.
Converting to a US GPA or a percentage
HKMU publishes no percentage equivalent for any grade, so there is no official GPA-to-percentage conversion. This site has no Hong Kong-to-US GPA converter; a Hong Kong GPA is already on a 4-point-style scale, but US admissions offices may re-evaluate it.
Contact
| Contact page | HKMU contact page |
| Website | https://www.hkmu.edu.hk/ |
Sources
Every figure on this page is read from the university’s own documents:
- HKMU — Classification of the Degree with Honours — read in full for both systems: the 5-credit grade points and numeric-grade conversions, the best-80-credits rule with its Group (a) and Group (b) split, the WGPA formula and its programme-set group weights, the Block Credit Transfer variant, and the honours bands; and for the 3-credit-unit system the 4.3 grade table, the aGPA formula over the minimum credit-units required, the final-attempt rule, and its five bands.
Rules change between intakes. Your own cohort’s handbook and your transcript are always authoritative.