Should I include grade in my CV?

[ArchieLi]

Hello all,

I wonder if I should include my grade/GPA in my CV (not Resume), or just indicate the class of degree I received?

Thank you

[fuzzylogician]

The grade/GPA will be listed in your transcript. There is no need to put it in your CV. If you graduated (summa/magna) cum laude, that is something you can indicate. 

[svent]

If it's good, there's no reason not to. It doesn't take that much space. 1-2 pages (GPA, other academic stuff, research, languages, computer skills for some fields, TA experience, etc.) to give a good overview of who you are is a good document to have.

[TakeruK]

I don't think it helps at all to put the GPA there, even if it is a perfect score. But it also wouldn't hurt. It's one of those things where I don't think it matters at all

[svent]

I think professors tend to be very lazy when it comes to these sorts of things, and having all your relevant information in one compact document is very useful. Especially for your LOR writers, not just adcoms people. If it's below 3.0, don't list it. If it's below 3.3 or 3.4, maybe don't list it.

[juilletmercredi]

^Er...I would disagree with that.

If you wanted to make a special version of your CV for your LOR writers with your GPA on the CV, that's one thing and easy enough to do. But when you apply to programs you will apply with your transcript and your GPA will be in there. If professors in the program really think it's so important as to consider them together, they will staple them or something. But putting a GPA on the CV is a bit outside professional norms and I'd personally be more concerned about the mindset of someone who did so rather than the actual GPA itself - particularly since after a certain point (around a 3.5ish I would say) GPA wouldn't even really matter to me anymore wrt PhD admissions.

[Need Coffee in an IV]

I've put my gpa on my resume because the schools that I'm applying to have it as a requirement. 

[svent]

^Er...I would disagree with that.

If you wanted to make a special version of your CV for your LOR writers with your GPA on the CV, that's one thing and easy enough to do. But when you apply to programs you will apply with your transcript and your GPA will be in there. If professors in the program really think it's so important as to consider them together, they will staple them or something. But putting a GPA on the CV is a bit outside professional norms and I'd personally be more concerned about the mindset of someone who did so rather than the actual GPA itself - particularly since after a certain point (around a 3.5ish I would say) GPA wouldn't even really matter to me anymore wrt PhD admissions.

Sounds like something someone working in industry would say.