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> Most students take 12 credit hours per semester and only attend Fall and Spring semester. That’s 24 credit hours per year.

24 credits a year?! I am curious, is this really the norm in the US? At the universitiy I attended in mainland Europe you were excpected to do 30 credits each semester, so 60 CP a year.

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US credits and ECTS credits don't mean the same thing. A US credit is roughly equivalent to 2 ECTS credits in terms of amount of time spent. Additionally, 12 credit hours is an unusually small amount of credits to take. That's usually the minimum amount to qualify as a full-time student. If you want to graduate in the normal amount of time you have to take more like 16 credit hours per semester.

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