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ORDER TRANSCRIPTS
Current and former Southern Polytechnic State University students may order official transcripts via My Student Center by the National Student Clearinghouse. Your request should be made several days before the document is required - particularly at the beginning or end of a term. The transcript fee is $4.25 plus any applicable delivery fee (outlined below). All transcripts include your entire academic record without exception. We cannot issue a transcript if you have any financial indebtedness to the University. 

Transcript Delivery Options Fee
Hold for Pickup $0
Mail $0
FedEx/United States $25
FedEx/Canada & Mexico $35
FedEx/International $45
Rush - FedEx/United States $30
Rush - FedEx/Canada & Mexico $40
Rush - FedEx/International $50
Rush - Hold for Pickup $5
Rush - Mail $5
Rush - Fax $5

An unofficial copy of your transcript can be obtained online through the BANNER student information system.

ENROLLMENT & DEGREE VERIFICATIONS
Southern Polytechnic State University has authorized the National Student Clearinghouse to act as our agent for providing enrollment and degree verifications. Verifications are available from the Clearinghouse on approximately the 15th business day after the start of a semester or term. The fee for an enrollment verification is $2.50.  The fee for a degree verification is $7.50. To order either verification, please click on the link below. Please note: Your verification will not be released if you have financial indebtedness to the university.

MyStudentCenter.org

If you have any questions, please contact Khandra Moss at 678-915-7280 or kmoss2@spsu.edu.

GPA CALCULATION
Calculating your grade point average (GPA) is fairly simple.  First, you must calculate your quality points.  Each grade you receive is worth a number of points per credit hour as follows:

A - 4 points
B - 3 points
C - 2 points
D - 1 points
F - 0 points

If you take a 4 credit-hour course, and make an A, you have earned 16 quality points.  If you earn a B, you have 12 quality points.  Of course, if you earn an F, 0 times any number is.....zero.

Determine the number of quality points for each course, then add up the total quality points you have earned.

Next, simply divide the total quality points you have earned, by the total number of hours of credit for which you have received a grade.
 
Here is an example:

A student earned the following grades for the indicated number of hours:

Grade

 Credit Hours Quality Points

  Total quality points = 36

  Total number of credit hours for which a grade has  been earned = 14

 GPA = 36 divided by 14 = 2.57

A

 4 4 x 4 = 16 
A 2 4 x 2 = 8 
C 3 2 x 3 = 6 
F 3 0 x 3 = 0 
B 2 3 x 2 = 6
  • Some grades do not count in your GPA.
  • Courses earned in a remedial status do not count.
  • Courses applied toward CPC deficiencies do not count.
  • If you are a graduate student, undergraduate courses do not count in your graduate GPA.
  • Courses you have passed and then repeated do not officially count, although it may appear so if you look at the computer generated GPA. 
  • If you repeat a course, only the final attempt counts in your GPA.

There are other examples but, for the most part, if you follow the above example, you can come up with your own GPA.
  
If you have both quarter work and semester work, it is not a simple matter of adding the two GPAs together and dividing by two.  To get an accurate GPA, you either have to convert the quarter work to semesters or the semester work to quarters.  A semester hour is about 1.5 quarter hours.  We suggest you don't try this at home.

MAT SCORE INTERPRETATION

 23 or lower MAT 1 & 2 

Placement MATH 1111 (College Algebra) 

24 or higher MAT 1 & 2 

Placement MATH 1113 (Pre-Calculus)
26 or higher MAT 1 & 2
and 8 or higher MAT 3

 Placement MATH 2253 (Calculus I) or
MATH 2240 (Survey of Calculus)