How to Convert the Georgian Grading System to a US GPA (2026)

Georgia (the country, not the US state, a distinction worth making explicitly since the two names collide constantly in search results) joined the Bologna Process in 2005 at the Bergen ministerial summit, which means its higher education system runs on the same three-cycle, credit-based structure used across most of Europe. That should make converting a Georgian grade comparatively simple. In practice, the sources that actually describe Georgia's grading scale disagree with each other on a basic question, whether the country runs on a 100-point scale or a 10-point one, and at least two named universities publish letter-grade bands that don't match each other. Neither disagreement shows up in a quick calculator result.

The Bologna-aligned credit structure

Since joining Bologna in 2005, Georgian higher education runs on ECTS-equivalent credits, with one academic year typically corresponding to 60 credits. A standard bachelor's degree runs 240 credits, though some institutions offer a shorter 180-credit bachelor's under specific program rules, a master's runs 120 credits, and a doctorate runs 180 credits. This part of the system is genuinely well documented, the EU's own Eurydice country profile for Georgia describes this three-cycle structure directly, and it's one of the more straightforward facts about the Georgian system to confirm. If your transcript or degree certificate lists a credit total, that figure is one of the more reliable, consistently defined numbers you have to work with, more reliable than any attempt to convert the underlying grade itself.

The scale disagreement: 100 points, or 10 points?

Here's where the research for this guide ran into a genuine, unresolved conflict. Eurydice, generally the more authoritative source among what's publicly available, describes Georgian assessment as running on a 100-point system with letter bands, A for the top band down through F for failing. Several independent grade-conversion and study-abroad sites instead describe Georgia's system as a 10-point scale, with 10 as the highest score and 1 as the lowest, and name the same two universities, Tbilisi State University and Ilia State University, as examples of institutions using it. We could not confirm which description is correct, or whether both are correct for different contexts (a 10-point scale could plausibly be a rounded or simplified public-facing description of the same underlying 100-point system, divided into bands of ten). Rather than picking one description and presenting it as settled, the honest position is that this is a genuinely unresolved disagreement in the available sourcing, and the single most useful thing you can do is check your own specific university's own published grading regulations rather than trusting either generic description by default.

The 100-point bands, where they could be confirmed

Working from the 100-point description, one Georgian university's own published grading page lists bands running from E at 51 to 60 points as the lowest passing grade, through D (61-70), C (71-80), B (81-90), up to A (91-100). Below the passing line, FX covers 41 to 50 points and is treated as a fail that still permits a second examination attempt, while F covers 40 points and below and requires retaking the entire course, not just the exam. This lines up reasonably well with Eurydice's own description of A as 91-100 and B as 81-90 at the national level. If your transcript shows letter grades on this pattern, that's a reasonably well-corroborated part of the system, at least for the institution that published it.

Why one generic table can genuinely mislead you

The real complication shows up when you check a second, specific institution against the same generic bands. One source describing Georgian Technical University's own grading scale lists an 81-to-100 band as "Perfect," corresponding to an A, and a 61-to-80 band as "Good," corresponding to a B. That's a meaningfully different cutoff structure from the 91-100/81-90 bands described above, wide enough that a raw score in the mid-70s could land as a solid B at one university and fall below the B threshold entirely at another. This is the same pattern seen repeatedly across this grading-conversion series, a generic national table is a starting approximation, never a substitute for the specific issuing university's own published grading key. If you're evaluating or explaining a Georgian transcript, confirm which university issued it and look up that institution's own bands specifically, don't assume every Georgian degree uses identical cutoffs.

An older transcript may predate the reform entirely

One more variable the generic conversion sites skip: Georgia's current system is genuinely recent. Georgia's 2004 Law on Higher Education introduced the three-tier bachelor's/master's/PhD structure and ECTS credits for the first time, and the country joined the Bologna Process the following year. An opinion piece in Georgia Today, discussing the country's history of education reform, describes the prior Soviet- legacy evaluation system as a five-point scale that the Bologna-era reform replaced with a ten-point scale, which may be the actual source of the "10-point scale" description some third-party sites give for Georgia today, rather than a contradiction of the 100-point description above. We could not confirm this reconciliation with full certainty in this run, since it rests on an opinion column rather than a Ministry document, but it's a plausible explanation for why different sources describe Georgia's grading differently: they may be describing different eras, not necessarily getting the same era wrong. Before the 2004 reform, university programs commonly ran five years and graduates received a "specialist diploma" rather than today's bachelor's/master's structure, and some Georgian universities reportedly still use older, Russian-derived degree names internally even after the formal reform. If your own degree or a family member's predates roughly 2005, the pass marks and bands described above may not apply at all, and that older credential is a genuinely different evaluation case worth flagging explicitly to whichever evaluator or admissions office is reviewing it.

How Georgian letter grades map onto the European ECTS convention

One source cross-references Georgia's own letter bands against the broader European ECTS grading convention (the A-through-F scale used for credit transfer across much of Europe), mapping Georgia's E grade (the lowest pass) to the ECTS equivalent of "Sufficient," which that source in turn maps to a US C, and both FX and F to an ECTS Fail. This is a useful cross-check if you're already familiar with how ECTS grades get read elsewhere in Europe, but it's a secondary, third-party mapping layered on top of an already-unconfirmed primary scale, so treat it as directional context rather than a settled conversion.

No official national GPA conversion table exists

We looked specifically for a Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia or NCEQE (National Center for Education Quality Enhancement) document that publishes an official percentage-to-4.0 crosswalk, the kind of single authoritative table that would settle every question above at once. We found none. NCEQE's own published role covers institutional authorization, program accreditation, and recognition of foreign educational documents, not an outbound GPA conversion standard for Georgian degrees being evaluated abroad. What exists instead is a mix of a reasonably well-corroborated Eurydice description, at least two named universities' own differing bands, and third-party calculator sites that don't fully agree with each other or with Eurydice on whether the base scale is even 100 points or 10. That's a more fragmented picture than Georgia's clean Bologna credit structure might suggest at first glance.

What a formal credential evaluation changes

Given the genuine disagreement across sources on both the base scale and the exact grade bands, a formal evaluation from a NACES-member agency such as WES or ECE is the more defensible option for any application that specifically requires a numeric US GPA. These evaluators work from your actual transcript and your specific issuing institution, applying their own documented methodology, rather than running your record through a generic calculator built on assumptions that may not hold for your particular university. Our WES vs. ECE vs. IQAS guide covers how to choose between evaluators depending on your target country and program.

What to put in a cold email instead

If you're emailing a potential advisor rather than submitting a formal application, skip the conversion math entirely and state your record the way your transcript actually reports it, for example "final average 94/100, [degree] from [university], graduated [year]." Naming your specific Georgian university matters more here than for many countries covered elsewhere in this series, given the real, documented gap between at least two named universities' own published grading bands. If you're also applying for funding specifically, our guide to PhD and Masters funding for Georgian students abroad covers the real scholarship and grant programs available alongside the professor-funded route this site is built around.

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