How UK degree classifications convert to Portugal's grading scale

Finished a UK degree and need to know what that looks like in Portugal? Portuguese universities and recognition work on a 0-20 scale. Your First, 2:1, 2:2, or Third does not get averaged into that scale. Portugal uses a fixed lookup for the usual UK honours classes.

The conversion

Find your class on the left. The Portuguese grade is on the right.

A First becomes 18 out of 20. That is the top of this table. You do not get 19 or 20 from a UK honours class under this mapping.

When you actually need this

You usually care about this number when you ask Portugal to recognise your UK degree, or when a Portuguese university wants a final grade on their scale for a master's or similar application. Recognition is handled through DGES. You can ask for the grade conversion as part of that process, or afterwards.

This is for university degrees. If you are converting UK school results for a Portuguese bachelor's application, that is a different process and not what this page covers.

What if your transcript is not a First / 2:1 / 2:2 / Third?

Some UK results are reported as plain numbers on a normal scale. In that case Portugal uses the general foreign-grade formula instead of the table above. You can run that on our grades to Portugal calculator. If your result fits neither the table nor that formula, DGES decides case by case.

Other countries

We also have a US GPA guide and a Pakistan guide.