How long is 47 college credit hours?

Answer 1

One credit equals 16 classroom contact hours per semester. Thus, a thee credit course would be 48 hours of classroom contact hours for the semester.

One credit equals 16 classroom contact hours per semester. Thus, a thee credit course would be 48 hours of classroom contact hours for the semester.

One credit equals 16 classroom contact hours per semester. Thus, a thee credit course would be 48 hours of classroom contact hours for the semester.

One credit equals 16 classroom contact hours per semester. Thus, a thee credit course would be 48 hours of classroom contact hours for the semester.

One credit equals 16 classroom contact hours per semester. Thus, a thee credit course would be 48 hours of classroom contact hours for the semester.

One credit equals 16 classroom contact hours per semester. Thus, a thee credit course would be 48 hours of classroom contact hours for the semester.

Answer 2

Answer 1: Assuming that one goes to school full-time, then "47 college credit hours" is a little more than a year-and-a-half.

At the full-time rate of 15 semester credit hours per semester, or 30 semester credit hours per year, then one may complete 45 semester credit hours in three semesters, or a year-and-a-half.

A grand total of 47 semester credit hours is only two semester credit hours more than that... not even a full three-semester-credit-hour course/class, in fact. A two-semester-credit-hour course like that would tend to be something like "How to Use Computers" or "How to use the Library" or "How to write a resume and get a job," or "Underwater Basketweaving" or something. [grin]

Of course, all of the above assumes that the school in question is on the "semester credit hour" system. However, there's another system used at some colleges and universities in the US: What's called the "quarter credit" system.

On the quarter credit system, a full-time student earns 45 credits in just one year; 90 credits in two years (an associates degree); and 180 credits in four years (a bachelors degree). And so, if that's the system on which the school in question is operating, then 47 credits is just a tad over a year's worth of full-time college work.

But the questioner used the phrase "credit hours," and so the "semester credit hours" system is reasonably assumed. In that system, a full-time student earns 30 semester credit hours per year; and so 60 semester credit hours in two years (an associates degree), and 120 semester credit hours in four years (a bachelors degree).

If so, then the first part of this answer is correct: It would take a full-time student, taking 15 semester credit hours per semester, three semesters -- or a year-and-a-half -- to earn 45 semester credit hours; and 47 is not even a full three-semester-credit-hour course/class more than that.

Answer 3

One credit equals 16 classroom contact hours per semester. Thus, a thee credit course would be 48 hours of classroom contact hours for the semester.