How much is 60 percent in CGPA?

On a 10-point scale, 60 percent is a CGPA of 6.0 (divide the percentage by 10). That holds at Anna University, VIT, SRM, RGPV, Amity and Calcutta University, which use Percentage = CGPA times 10. It is higher where the formula subtracts first: 6.75 at AKTU, SPPU, MAKAUT and old-scheme VTU, and 6.90 at Mumbai University general.

60 percent is which class? Is it First Class?

Yes. In the traditional Indian degree classification, 60 percent is the First Class cutoff. 50 to 59.9 percent is Second Class, and 75 percent and above is Distinction (First Class with Distinction). A CGPA that converts to 60 percent is a First Class result at most universities.

What CGPA equals 60% at VTU?

Depends on your scheme. Under VTU's current 2022 scheme the formula is Percentage = CGPA times 10, so 60% = 6.00 CGPA. Alumni on the older 2015 / 2017 / 2018 schemes use Percentage = (CGPA minus 0.75) times 10, so 60% = 6.75 CGPA. The same 6.75 threshold applies at AKTU, SPPU and MAKAUT.

Is 6.5 CGPA equivalent to 60 percent?

It depends on the university. At Anna, RGPV, VIT, SRM and Amity, 6.5 CGPA equals 65 percent. At VTU, AKTU, SPPU and MAKAUT, 6.5 CGPA equals 57.5 percent. At Mumbai University general, 6.5 CGPA equals 57.15 percent.

Is 60 percent the same CGPA at every Indian university?

No. The CGPA needed for 60 percent ranges from 6.00 at universities using CGPA times 10 to 6.90 at Mumbai University general stream.

What is 60 percent in CGPA for Mumbai University?

6.90 CGPA under the general formula. Mumbai engineering programmes at CGPA above 7 use a different formula and reach 60 percent at approximately 6.62 CGPA.

Which Indian university has the easiest 60 percent cutoff?

Anna University, RGPV, VIT, SRM, Amity and Calcutta University. All use CGPA times 10, so 60 percent requires exactly 6.00 CGPA.

Why do TCS, Infosys and Wipro require 60 percent specifically?

The 60 percent threshold comes from the older Indian First Class classification system. The IT services hiring boom of the early 2000s inherited it as a filter and most companies have not updated it since CBCS rolled out across universities.

Does the 60 percent rule apply to off-campus drives too?

Often less strictly. Many off-campus drives at the same companies either skip the 60 percent filter or read the CGPA directly.

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60% in CGPA: What You Actually Need at Each Indian University

Published: 26 April 2026 · 8 min read

A guy from my old college pinged me last week about his sister. Third year B.Tech at SPPU, sixth-semester results just out, 6.5 CGPA. She had a TCS NQT slot lined up. The eligibility rule on the TCS portal is the standard one: 60% in 10th, 12th, and current degree, no active backlogs. She'd been telling everyone in her hostel that 6.5 CGPA was safely above 60%. Then her marksheet PDF arrived and the printed percentage on it read 57.5%. Below the cutoff. The slot was gone.

What had happened is the same thing that happens to a few thousand Indian students every results season. She'd assumed her CGPA converts to percentage the same way her cousin's at Anna does — multiply by 10 and you're done. SPPU doesn't work that way. SPPU subtracts 0.75 first. (6.5 − 0.75) × 10 = 57.5%. The 2.5 percentage-point gap that put her under the TCS filter wasn't her fault. It was the formula she didn't know she was on.

So this is the post nobody quite wrote yet. What CGPA do you actually need to clear the 60% line, university by university? Below is the full table for the 15 Indian universities I have verified formulas for. The number is genuinely different at every one of them.

Quick version: 60% is a CGPA of 6.0 on a 10-point scale. You just divide by 10. That's the answer at Anna, VIT, SRM, RGPV, Amity and Calcutta. It's higher anywhere the formula subtracts first: 6.75 at AKTU, SPPU, MAKAUT and old-scheme VTU, and 6.90 at Mumbai general. And 60% is the old First Class cutoff, so a 6.0 that prints 60% is a First Class result.

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The 60% table, every university

Sorted from highest CGPA needed (hardest to clear 60%) to lowest. If your university is on this list, this is the number on your marksheet you need to be above.

University	State	Formula	CGPA for 60%
Mumbai University (general)	Maharashtra	(CGPA × 7.1) + 11	6.90
VTU (2022 scheme)	Karnataka	CGPA × 10	6.00
VTU (2015 / 2017 / 2018 schemes)	Karnataka	(CGPA − 0.75) × 10	6.75
AKTU	Uttar Pradesh	(CGPA − 0.75) × 10	6.75
SPPU	Maharashtra	(CGPA − 0.75) × 10	6.75
MAKAUT	West Bengal	(CGPA − 0.75) × 10	6.75
JNTUH	Telangana	(CGPA − 0.5) × 10	6.50
GTU	Gujarat	(CGPA − 0.5) × 10	6.50
Delhi University	Delhi	CGPA × 9.5	6.32
CBSE (Class 10)	National	CGPA × 9.5	6.32
Anna University	Tamil Nadu	CGPA × 10	6.00
RGPV	Madhya Pradesh	CGPA × 10	6.00
Calcutta University	West Bengal	CGPA × 10	6.00
Amity	Uttar Pradesh	CGPA × 10	6.00
SRM	Tamil Nadu	CGPA × 10	6.00
VIT	Tamil Nadu	CGPA × 10	6.00

Read across that table once. A Mumbai University general-stream student needs 6.90 CGPA to print 60% on the marksheet. A VIT or Anna student needs exactly 6.00. That's a 0.90 CGPA gap between students who, on paper, are both being evaluated against the same "60% required" recruiter rule. Almost a full grade point of work, for the same line on the eligibility filter.

The same effort, three universities

Take three students who all ended their B.Tech with the exact same effort, the exact same understanding of their subjects, the exact same internals and externals. Final CGPA on each one's marksheet: 6.5.

The Anna student's transcript prints 65%. Eligible for TCS NQT, Infosys, Wipro, Cognizant, every major service-based filter. Comfortably above 60%, even cleared the 65% bar that some Capgemini and Accenture roles use.

The VTU student's transcript prints 57.5%. Below the TCS NQT 60% cutoff, blocked from the same companies, eligible only for off-campus drives that don't enforce the percentage gate or for the smaller service companies that read CGPA directly.

The Mumbai general student's transcript prints (6.5 × 7.1) + 11 = 57.15%. Same problem as the VTU student, marginally worse.

Three students, identical performance against their own university's standards, three different eligibility outcomes for the same job. That's not an opinion, that's the math.

Where the "60%" cutoff even came from

The 60% number isn't a Google or TCS invention. It comes from the older Indian degree classification system, where a percentage of 60 marked the threshold for First Class (and 75 for Distinction). When percentages were what universities printed on marksheets, that boundary was meaningful and roughly comparable across institutions. Engineering colleges in the 1990s and early 2000s ran on it, and the IT services hiring boom that started around 2003 inherited it as a filter without thinking too hard about it.

Then CBCS rolled out across most Indian universities between 2014 and 2018, and the printed-percentage system got replaced with CGPA. Each university was free to design its own conversion formula. The conversions were not standardised. UGC issued recommendations rather than mandates. Some universities went with the simplest answer, multiply by 10. Others used the older grade-mid-point logic and ended up with subtraction-based formulas. Mumbai picked something more idiosyncratic.

The 60% rule on company eligibility filters didn't change. The university definitions of what 60% maps to did. So now the same TCS NQT filter, written in 2003 against a percentage-based marksheet, evaluates a 2026 CGPA-based marksheet through 15 different formulas. Nobody at TCS HR is doing this on purpose. They just inherited the rule.

Where the 60% line actually shows up

It's not just the IT services giants. The 60% threshold quietly anchors a long list of opportunities Indian students apply to:

Service-based IT placements. TCS NQT, Infosys, Wipro, Cognizant, HCLTech, Tech Mahindra, LTI, Mindtree. Most of them want 60% (some 65%) in 10th, 12th, and the current degree, plus no active backlogs.
PSU recruitment via GATE. ONGC, IOCL, BHEL, NTPC, GAIL and most central PSUs require 60% (some 65%) in B.Tech as a baseline before your GATE score is even considered.
UPSC and SSC. The civil services exam needs a graduate degree, and while UPSC itself doesn't formally require a percentage, several state PSC exams and most SSC posts that ask for a degree assume the candidate can produce a transcript above 60%.
M.Tech via GATE. Most NITs and IIITs require 60% in the qualifying degree. Some IITs require 65% or 6.5 CGPA, depending on the year.
Bank PO exams. SBI PO, IBPS PO and most public-sector bank recruitment specify a graduate degree with 60% (sometimes 55%, sometimes a degree without a specific cutoff).
UK universities. Most UK master's programmes that accept Indian undergraduates ask for 60% as the minimum bar for an upper-second equivalent. Russell Group universities sometimes ask for 65%.
Visa documentation. Some embassies require academic transcripts with the percentage clearly readable for student-visa processing.

Every one of these reads the printed number on your transcript. None of them re-applies your university's CGPA formula. So the cutoff that matters is the one in the table above.

The asymmetry, which is an opinion

Here's a take I'll state openly. The "60% blanket eligibility rule" is structurally unfair across Indian universities, and nobody in the recruiter ecosystem has done anything about it.

An Anna University student at 6.0 CGPA cleared exactly the bar she was supposed to. A Mumbai general-stream student at 6.0 CGPA, with identical performance against her own university's grading scheme, prints 53.6% on the marksheet and gets filtered out at the resume stage. Same effort, same comprehension of material, same standing within her cohort. Different formula, different eligibility outcome.

You can argue that an Anna 6.0 and a Mumbai general 6.0 aren't strictly equivalent because the underlying grading rubrics differ. That's true. But the recruiter filter doesn't care about the underlying rubric. It reads the printed percentage and acts on it. The asymmetry is a paperwork artifact, not a reflection of student quality.

The fix is straightforward. Service-based recruiters could publish CGPA-equivalent cutoffs alongside the 60% rule. Some have started: TCS NQT now lists 6.0 CGPA as an alternative on the eligibility page. Most haven't. Until they do, the most useful thing a final-year student can do is know exactly what their printed percentage will be, and not assume.

What to actually do

If you're a current student and your university has a subtraction-based formula (VTU, AKTU, SPPU, MAKAUT, JNTUH, GTU, Mumbai), three practical things help.

First, calculate your printed percentage every semester, not just at the end. The number that goes on the eligibility filter is the cumulative one. The SGPA from your latest semester only matters as it pulls or drags the CGPA. If your CGPA is hovering near the cutoff, one semester of focused work in the right courses can shift you across.

Second, when applying to companies that print "60% required," screenshot your university's official conversion formula from the academic regulations document. If you're at 6.95 CGPA at Mumbai general (which prints 60.4%, just above), and an HR person reads your transcript and questions the percentage, the document is your proof. Background-verification teams at the larger MNCs already know the formulas. The recruiters at smaller companies sometimes don't.

Third, if you're in a subtraction-formula university and the percentage is what's holding you back, the off-campus route is your friend. A surprising number of off-campus drives at the same companies that have on-campus 60% filters either don't enforce the percentage rule or read the CGPA directly. Off-campus is more work, but the eligibility math is more forgiving.

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Sources and notes

Conversion formulas verified against each university's published academic regulations or circular as of April 2026. Detailed sources for each formula are listed on the corresponding university calculator page.
Eligibility cutoffs (TCS NQT, Infosys, Wipro and others) reflect the rules published on each company's careers portal at the time of writing. These are revised periodically. Always check the official portal before applying.
UK university and US programme cutoffs vary by institution. The 60% / upper-second figure is a common but not universal baseline.
The Mumbai University general formula (CGPA × 7.1) + 11 is per Circular G4/of/2018. Mumbai engineering programmes at CGPA ≥ 7 use a slightly different formula and have a different 60% threshold (~6.62 CGPA). See the Mumbai post linked above.

Current as of April 2026. Universities and recruiters revise rules periodically. Always verify against the latest official documents before treating any number as final for an application.

The opening anecdote is a composite. The situation is real, but names, colleges, and identifying details have been changed.