Grades and grading

Utrecht University assigns grades on a 10-point scale: 1 is the lowest grade and 10 is the highest grade. On this page you will find more information about grades and results, including a table of final grades.

Rules for grading and results

  • A 5 (or lower) counts as fail; a 6 (or higher) as pass.
  • You will need a passing grade for all courses that are part of your degree programme in order to be able to graduate.
  • Only passing grades are recorded on the International Diploma Supplement. 
Read more about deregistration from tests and retakes

Grading tables GEMMA


Your UU grades abroad: grading tables

To help foreign universities interpret the value of our grades, we publish grading tables that show which percentage of all passing grades in the past 3 years were a 6.0, a 6.5, a 7.5, etc. The tables are published on your International Diploma Supplement.