Generally, no — transfer credit adds to your attempted hours, but not to your GPA calculation. Here's why, and how it plays out in the math.
When you transfer credit from another school (or from AP/IB exams, dual enrollment, etc.), it typically shows up on your transcript with a grade of "T" (transfer) or "P" (pass) rather than a letter grade — because your new school didn't assign that grade itself. Since there's no grade, there are no grade points, and therefore no quality points to add to your GPA calculation.
Transfer credit still gets added to your total attempted hours (it counts toward your progress to a degree), which matters for GPA because the standard formula is:
GPA = total quality points ÷ (attempted hours − transfer/no-grade hours)
Transfer hours get subtracted back out of the denominator specifically so they don't drag your GPA average down toward zero with no quality points to offset them.
Say you have 3 transfer hours (no grade points) plus 22 hours of graded coursework worth 48.8 quality points. Your cumulative GPA is:
48.8 ÷ (25 − 3) = 48.8 ÷ 22 = 2.218
Notice the transfer hours (3) were subtracted out of the denominator entirely — they neither helped nor hurt the GPA number itself, even though they count toward your total hours attempted and progress toward graduation.
Look for a "T" grade, a "Transfer Credit" section, or a note like "credit by exam" — these are the rows that should be counted as transfer hours, not as GPA-bearing coursework. Our Sample Transcript Guide shows exactly what this looks like on a real transcript.
In the Best GPA Calculator, enter these in the "Transfer credit hours" field in Section 1, separate from your attempted hours.