re: Did your college courses adhere to the credit hour definition?

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I've posted a hundred times about my returning to school in my 30s. You should find a grown up to read it to you.

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That was for your alleged second degree

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A credit hour is defined as 1 hour of class time per week with 2-3 hours of homework/study time per week.

So a 3 hour course should equal approximately 9 hours of work in total per week. More rigorous universities probably push towards 12 hours of work per week, but the average is supposed to be 9.

This is why a 12 hour course load is considered a full time student. 4 classes should amount to 36 hours of total work per week.

A 15 hour course load should be similar to a full time job. You "should" be working 8 hours per day, 5 days a week, to satisfy the full requirements of the courses.

For me, I absolutely did not work that much. I went to class and studied every now and then. Completed homework as needed. My GPA reflected my effort.

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I think this absolutely depends on your major.
I didn't work that hard, but I knew people at A&M in Architecture and similar fields that seemed like they never slept.

Says the person that’s too dumb to realize that fish is categorized separately for dietary, legal, religious and culinary purposes.

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You did accounting.

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Uh. Wrong.

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I think this absolutely depends on your major.
I didn't work that hard, but I knew people at A&M in Architecture and similar fields that seemed like they never slept.

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But that's an interesting point, right?

Course load is not defined by major. It's a Federal government definition: LINK.

So if all business majors, not just super genius ones, are able to get by with much less work than the federally defined credit hour, then they're in violation of the HEOA along with SACS accreditation standards.

The joke about majors like gender studies isn't so much of a joke when you really think about it. If the major is super easy to get and doesn't require enough work to satisfy the credit hour definition, then they should boost their standards.