Penn State average GPA: University Park’s entering class
Penn State University Park reports a 3.67 average high-school GPA for first-year students who enrolled in fall 2025.
Average high-school GPA
3.67Fall 2025
- Student group
- Enrolled first-year students · University Park campus
- Scale / measure
- School-reported GPA; C11 uses 4.0 GPA bands and C12 does not define weighting
GPA reported for 96% of the entering class.
University Park is one campus. This average must not be assigned to every Penn State location or to a particular major.
Penn State University Park Common Data Set 2025–26, revised July 2026 ↗C11–C12, PDF page 16 · Checked 2026-08-31
- Reported GPA 3.75–3.99
- 38%
- Reported GPA 3.50–3.74
- 29%
Same source, student group and reporting period as the profile above.
For a University Park comparison, start with the University Park cohort. If you choose another Penn State campus, use that campus’s report. Entrance-to-major requirements after enrollment are a separate GPA decision.
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
- Select your intended campus and degree when checking requirements.
- Entrance-to-major GPA for enrolled students is a different decision from first-year admission.
- An admitted-student range, if consulted separately, should retain its campus, year and student-population labels.
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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