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Thứ Hai, 16 tháng 5, 2011

Accelerated Bachelor Degrees - How Long Do They Usually Take To Graduate?

By Kathryn Mcconnell


More students are continuing to jump into the world of accelerated degrees and educational programs. This is because they offer a variety of benefits, namely that you finish up with your school in less time, which means that you can actually begin your new life and career. But it's important to understand just how long these programs take before you get started.

Different programs are always going to take slightly different amounts of time to complete, and you can expect that regardless of what you're studying. On your end, individual factors and circumstances that can affect your program time length include the field that you're choosing to study in, and the amount, if any, of preexisting credits that you're transferring over.

Even with these individual factors in mind, there are still a few basic guidelines that you can use to learn more about accelerated degrees and how long they last. Most people consider that guideline to be accelerated programs taking half the time to complete as their standard-paced counterparts. That means that bachelor's degrees take four years instead of two years to complete, for example, but it could be even less, or more, potentially.

Another factor though for the length of time that an accelerated program takes to complete is the scheduling that you'll be utilizing. Finishing in half the time doesn't just mean that you take two times as many classes during the same time, which is important, because that kind of workload would be impossible for most individuals.

Many accelerated schools and programs operate under a quarter system instead of semesters. Now you have four separate sessions throughout the year, each of which are about 12 weeks in length. This eliminates the long breaks between semesters and enables students to study all throughout the year, fitting in more classes.

Most college students have at least three months off during the summer, and then enjoy another month or so off in the winter too, in addition to other, shorter breaks. That's a third of the year you're not utilizing, so accelerated programs eliminate that and keep students moving ahead the whole time, allowing you to get more classes out of the way in much less time.

One reason why this is so successful, and widespread, today is the use of the online platform for school and education. This makes doing work more convenient, more flexible and more customized, so that you can entirely dictate when, where and how you get everything done. In this way, you can better juggle all of the other tasks and responsibilities that you likely have in your life, ranging from family and personal time, to full-time jobs and much more.

So as you can see, there are many different factors at play when it comes to the program length for accelerated degree programs. The general guideline is that it takes half the time, four years to two years for bachelors degree, thanks to year-round classes and higher workloads, but this can vary depending on your own individual circumstances.




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