Re: Taking an extra semester
[ QUOTE ]
djj,
Don't most people do internships with classes or have them count for hours? This is quite surprising to me. Almost every major I have seen is doable in 4 years, though most require outside credit or more than 15 hours per semester.
[/ QUOTE ]
Most engineering internships are paid internships and you don't get credit. It is doable in 4 years, but the vast majority don't. It would take 4 years and two quarters to graduate taking 15 credit hours a quarter. This translates to about 5 or 6 classes depending on whether they are labs or lectures which is a pretty sizable load, especially for the higher level classes.
Undergrad students are also required to take graduate level classes which makes it even more difficult to take 18+ credit hour loads senior year. Some professors whill even tell undergrad students to drop a class because the workload will be too much if they are taking 5 other classes since the graduate level classes are designed around graduate students taking about three classes, not five or six.
|