Bryn Mawr College

Graduation Honors Graduation Honors

The A.B. degree may be conferred cum laude, magna cum laude, and summa cum laude. The following policies apply. Each year's commencement program includes a list of all students who have earned these honors.

 

Cum Laude

GPA: 3.400 - 3.599

Eligibility for cum laude is based on your GPA precisely as it appears on your Bryn Mawr transcript. This means:

• Grades behind CR/NC are not included.

• Summer school grades from Bryn Mawr earned on this campus are included, as are grades from Bryn Mawr-administered programs in Avignon and Pisa (and Florence through the summer of 2005).  No other summer grades are included.

• Terms grades from Haverford, University of Pennsylvania, and Swarthmore are included.  Term-time grades transferred from other institutions are not included.

Magna Cum Laude

GPA: 3.600 and above, excluding the top ten students with GPAs of 3.800 or above. Eligibility for magna cum laude is based on a recalculated GPA that includes grades earned in courses that you have chosen to take CR/NC.

 

Summa Cum Laude

Limited to the top 10 students in the class with GPAs of 3.800 or higher.

As with magna cum laude , eligibility for summa cum laude is based on a recalculated GPA that includes grades earned in courses that you have chosen to take CR/NC. In recent years, the cutoff between summa and magna has tended to be closer to 3.9 than to 3.8.

 

In addition to College-wide honors, most departments may also award honors in the major. Each department sets its own criteria for these honors.