How to find GPA distributions for US universities I have been tasked with making a grade equivalence table for a small list of US universities to translate to grades at a European university.  To do this I thought it would be easiest just to look at the GPA distribution and try to map percentiles. However, I am having problems finding them.  Can this data be found for


University of California     
University of Maryland  
University of Texas at Austin    
University of Wisconsin


This is for students in their third year of university who will be spending one year in the US.

The subject of particular interest is computer science but any data would be better than none.
Stuart Rojstaczer maintains a web page with information about average GPA at many universities in the U.S. The data on that page was last updated in 2009, and is next scheduled to be updated in February 2016 (according to a note from the author on the page.)

At the end of that page, there are links to the historical GPA at each of the schools for which he has data. It also indicates the source of the data, so you can find out whether the school actually publishes the data, or whether the school simply made the data available to the author.

For example, if I click on his link for University of Wisconsin - Madison, I learn that this data was collected from the registrar's website. While the particular link he cites is no longer alive, searching the registrar's site yields this page that allows me to find out grade distributions from any course and term. Similarly, I found out through his page that UCSB publishes this data through its office of institutional research, which led me to this page of reports that include average GPA by major.

You can follow a similar procedure to find grade distribution information for other schools if available, but it may not be available for the schools you are interested in. Universities are not obligated to publish this information.