EARNING HONORS AT GRADUATION
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Honors are awarded at graduation to students who complete with distinction at least 60 semester credit hours of undergraduate course work at the University of Utah. Fifty or more of those hours must bear letter grades. Transfer hours and credit by examination are not used in the computation of honors. Honors are determined within each college as follows:
Summa Cum Laude is conferred upon bachelors degree students whose cumulative GPA ranks them in the top 1% of the graduating class of each college based on a five year average of the top 1% in that college.
Magna Cum Laude is conferred upon bachelors degree students whose cumulative GPA ranks them in the next 2.5% of the graduating class of each college based on a five year average of the next top 2.5% of that college.
Cum Laude is conferred upon bachelors degree students whose cumulative GPA ranks them in the next 4.5% of the graduating class of each college based on a five year average of the next top 4.5% of that college
The following are the honors GPA ranges for each school year.
