Semester Credit Plan
Work out the real load per term, then check it against what your degree audit actually says is outstanding.
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The degree
- Programme
- Credits required
- Credits earned (from the audit)
- CREDITS REMAINING
- Semesters left
- CREDITS PER SEMESTER
- Target graduation term
Plan each term
| Term | Courses | Credits | Running total | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
The arithmetic and the usual thresholds
- Credits per semester
- remaining / semesters left
- Credits remaining
- required − earned
- Typical bachelor's
- 120 credits
- Full-time minimum
- usually 12 credits
- ⚠ 12 × 8 semesters
- 96 — short of 120
- Four-year pace
- 15 credits a term
- One credit hour
- ≈ 1 lecture hour a week
Before you commit to this plan
- Credits taken from the DEGREE AUDIT, not the transcript total
- Transfer credits confirmed as APPLIED, not merely accepted
- Prerequisite chains checked for the whole sequence
- Courses offered only in alternate years identified
- Any per-term credit cap confirmed with the registrar
- Summer terms included in the semester count if you will use them
- The per-term load checked against your work hours
- Plan confirmed with an adviser before registration opens
Full-time is not the same as on-time
Twelve credits a term usually makes you full-time. It does not finish a 120-credit degree in four years — that takes fifteen. Carrying the minimum every term is the most common reason a four-year degree becomes a five-year one.