In 2018-2019 academic year, Academic Credit System has been applied. Thus, every student must know this system vividly. Academic credit system is the standard measuring system to evaluate the effort of each student from undergraduate, postgraduate, master degree and PhD during the course period. The following is the explanation of the calculation of University credit Grades and GPA.

ACU-Academic Credit Unit

• 1-ACU : 1 Lecture hours for 14 weeks
• 1-ACU : 2 hours (tutorial or Lab exercises or classroom discussion) for 14 weeks
• 3-ACUs : 2 Lecture hours + (1+1) (tutorial or Lab exercises or classroom assignment hours for 14 weeks (for one subject)

Table.1. Overview of Academic Credit Units (ACUs) requirement

According to the Grading System, students can get the credit points that suit the level of their effort.

For B.C.Sc./ B.C.Tech, the required grading points of the respective course can be shown in  Table.1. For example, a first year student needs to get 16 credit points for the first semester. A student needs to learn five courses for two credits or three credits per a course. One course needs to be learnt for supporting skills.

The grading system of University of Computer studies (Dawei) is as shown in Table 2, credit unit defined is shown in Table 3 and the calculations of GPA for a first year student can be seen in Table 4(a) and Table 4(b) as examples.

Table 2. Credit point parameters

Table 3. Credit unit defined for each subject in first year

Table 4(a). Calculation of GPA for semester 1

Cumulative GPA=Total Grade point/ Total credit unit

Student’s cumulative GPA for Semester 1 = 3.36.

Overall GPA = ∑ Cumulative GPA for each semester / total semester

Table 4(b). Calculation of GPA for semester 2

Student’s cumulative GPA for Semester 2 = 3.32.