LUMS grading system explained: official grade scale, GPA calculation, relative grading, probation rules and Dean's Honour List criteria for 2026.
LUMS Grading System: The Complete 2026 Guide (GPA Calculation, Grade Scale & Academic Standing)
If you are a student at the Lahore University of Management Sciences — or planning to apply — you have probably searched for a LUMS GPA calculator and noticed something strange: every website shows a different grade table. One site says an A+ starts at 90 marks out of 100. Another says 97. A third says B+ is worth 3.5 grade points, while the rest say 3.3. They cannot all be right — and as this guide will show, most of them are wrong about the most important thing of all. The truth, verified against LUMS's own Student Handbook (2025–2026 edition, issued through the Office of the Registrar), is more interesting than any of those tables: LUMS does not publish official percentage bands for its letter grades at all. The university's grading is primarily relative — your grade depends on where you stand in your class, not on a fixed marks cutoff. Every website that prints a neat "90–100 = A+" table for LUMS is presenting its own invention as official policy. This guide resolv…
