NYU average GPA: 3.81 for fall 2025 entrants
NYU’s 2025–26 Common Data Set reports an average high-school GPA of 3.81 for the fall 2025 entering first-year class in New York.
Average high-school GPA
3.81Fall 2025
- Student group
- Enrolled first-year students · NYU New York
- Scale / measure
- School-reported GPA; C11 uses 4.0 bands, with no weighting method stated in C12
GPA reported for 100% of this entering cohort.
This is an entering-class average, not a Stern-only, CAS-only, Abu Dhabi or Shanghai profile. The workbook stores 3.814 and displays 3.81.
NYU Common Data Set 2025–26 ↗C11–C12; workbook CDS-C, E241–E242 · Checked 2026-08-31Read the archived university workbook used for verification ↗
- Reported GPA of 4.0
- 17.2%
- Reported GPA 3.75–3.99
- 54.7%
Same source, student group and reporting period as the profile above.
NYU’s reported GPA distribution provides more context than the mean alone: 17.2% are in the 4.0 band and 54.7% in the 3.75–3.99 band. School-specific artistic or academic review still matters.
The requirement, not a prediction
No single numeric cutoff is recorded in this snapshot. That does not imply that all grades are competitive or that there are no academic requirements.
How to use this information
- Application requirements can include school-specific artistic review or additional materials.
- A CAS course-grade scale is not an NYU-wide admission requirement.
- Do not use the GPA of current college students as the average of an admitted first-year class.
First-year, transfer and enrolled GPA are different
This page covers first-year admission. A university course calculator measures entered coursework after enrollment and must not be treated as a high-school admission recalculation. Keep the source’s scale and course set attached to any number you compare.
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