Credits are usually based on the actual number of hours in class. Eighteen hours would be that many hours in the classroom each week. And most say to plan for 2 to 3 hours of study time for each hour in class.
Classroom hours and credit hours are reckoned by two different standards. Classroom hours refer to the number of actual hours a person attends class. Credit hours are the number of credits assigned to the class. Most classes are worth three or four credit hours.
In college each class you take has credit hours assigned to it. The hours indicate how many hours you are in class per week, except for labs. So if you have a class twice a week for 1:30 at a time it would be a 3 credit hour class. As you progress through school you will gain hours and the more hours the closer to graduating you are. At my school it takes 125 credit hours to graduate with a bachlor's degree.
For colleges and universities that operate on a regular semester system, one credit requires 16 hours of class contact time for the semester. Thus, a three credit course would require 48 hours of actual class contact time for the semester. This is typically broken down into three hours per week for the length of the semester.
The standard expectation is about two years to complete the roughly 55 credit hours necessary for an Associates Degree. Actual number of hours will depend on the school and the program.
Typically, for colleges that operate on a regular two semester academic year, one credit equals one credit hour. Therefore, 32 credits is actually 32 semester hours. In most places, a class meets two or three times a week, for a total of 3 contact hours a week, usually for 12 weeks, representing 36 hours of class time for 3 credit hours. And it is typically believed that two hours of study for every hour of class time is necessary. So 32 credit hours would equal 1152 hours of class time and over 2300 hours of study. Note that 12 credit hours a semester is full time.
For colleges and universities that operate on a regular semester system, each credit requires 16 hours of class contact time for the semester (actual time spent in class). Thus, a three credit course would require 48 hours of class contact time for the semester, which is typically broken down into three hours per week for the length of the semester.
Approximately 27 credits. Each credit is 16 hours of class contact per semester.
For colleges and universities that operate on the semester system, one credit is 16 hours of class contact time. Thus, a three credit course requires 48 hours of class contact time for the semester.
If you are referring to actual class contact hours, for colleges and universities that operate on a regular semester system, it depends on the number of credits the student registers for. One credit is equivalent to 16 hours of class contact time for the semester. Thus, a three credit course requires 48 hours of class contact time. The average full-time load is 15 credits, therefore the total class contact time for the semester would be 240 hours for the semester, and typically broken down to 15 hours of class per week for the length of the semester.
Credit hours is a term that refers to how much time you spent studying a particular class. In college, different classes are expected to take different amounts of time studying and have different amounts of time spent in class. For example, a college calculus class may meet four times a week for one hour each class and would count as four credit hours. A college fitness class like bowling may meet twice a week for one hour each time and would count as two credit hours. In high school, you spend equal amounts of time in each class so each class completed would count as one credit hour.
I would assume 3 credit hours, which would be one class.
3 hrs per high school semester. The most you can get for each year is 12 hrs.