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Credit Hour Calculation


Effective Catalog

Date of Last Review

Date of Next Review

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Fall 2025

Spring 2025

Spring 2030

Academic Affairs Committee

The semester credit hour is used to determine a student’s study load. One semester credit hour typically represents 50 minutes of classroom instruction, or the equivalent in other instructional formats, per week for the duration of a standard semester. Two to three hours of laboratory work are generally considered equivalent to one hour of classroom instruction. One credit is awarded for the successful completion (grade of D or better) of one semester credit hour of work.


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