Graduate level: The internal and external currency for academic credit is the “credit.” The Academic Standards section of the graduate catalog states an expectation of “at least 56 hours of total effort (including classroom time) for each graduate credit. This means that a student in a 3-graduate credit 14-week course is expected to expend at least 12 hours of total effort per week. A student in a 2-graduate credit 7-week course is expected to expend at least 16 hours of total effort per week.”
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A student in a 2-graduate credit 7-week course is expected to expend at least 16 hours of total effort per week.” Now the confusing part: Undergraduate credits and graduate credits at WPI are different currencies! The conversion is 1 graduate credit = 1/6 undergraduate unit (= 1.5 undergraduate credits).
In order to assess progress throughout the graduate program, grades are assigned to the student’s performance in course, project, and thesis work. Academic achievement is based on the following grading system: A - Excellent. B - Good. C - Pass. D - Unacceptable for graduate credit. F - Fail. AU - Audit. NC - No Credit awarded; Not factored ...
(2250 minutes)÷(750 minutes)=semester credit hours 3=semester credit hours 2. For a lecture course that meets for 2 hour 3 times a week, the credit hours to be awarded would be calculated as: (50 minutes hour × 2 hours day × 3 days week × 15 weeks semester)÷(1×750 minutes)=semester credit hours (4500 minutes)÷(750 minutes)=semester credit hours
Each credit hour corresponds to a minimum of 3 hours of student engagement per week for a traditional 14-week course or 6 hours per week for a 7-week course. This time may be spent on discussions, readings and lectures, study and research, and assignments. Most courses at AIC are three credit hours. Credits to be earned.
Each course usually carries 1/3 unit of credit, regardless of how many contact hours there are per week. A normal load each 7-week term is 1 unit, thus three courses.
In order to get a Bachelor of Science degree, a student needs to finish 45 courses, which consists of 15 courses that are not major specific and 30 that are major requirements. Major requirements vary based on each major, and you can refer to WPI Catalog for major specific requirements.
twelve 36 creditsAll full time students are expected to register and enroll in twelve 36 credits per academic year *. Students must pass a minimum of 24 academic credits to keep the same level of funding the following year.
The Interactive Qualifying Project (IQP) and Major Qualifying Project (MQP) are worth one unit of credit—the equivalent of 3 courses.
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This accelerated course of study allows students to obtain a MS degree after only five years of full-time work (i.e., typically one year after completion of the BS), and even in four years with careful planning and academic advising and support.
Students who fall below the minimum standard of 3.0 cumulative overall GPA will be placed in Academic Warning. If a student earns a grade lower than C in three or more courses, or if the cumulative overall GPA falls at or below 2.5 after attempting a minimum of 8 credits, the student is academically dismissed.
Main Academic Excellence that is in line with WPI admission standards. Score at least a 1285 on the SAT or 57 on the ACT. Maintain a GPA of at least a 3.89.
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nine-credit-hourJPG. Unlike an academic course, this nine-credit-hour requirement involves students working in teams, with students not in their major, to tackle an issue that relates science, engineering, and technology to society.
This is a 1/6 unit pre-qualifying project that is required of all students participating in an IQP project center. You will participate in this “project” with your project team and your advisers.
There are no failing grades We want the focus to be on learning, teamwork, and collaboration, not on competing. You earn A, B, C, or NR (No Record). This unique grading system encourages you to branch out, experiment, and cross disciplines—that's where amazing things happen at WPI, and, ultimately, in your career.
In accordance with affirming legal opinion, effective August 1, 1986, WPI assumes that all undergraduates have dependent status unless they inform the Projects and Registrar's Office in writing that they are independent. Petition forms are available in the Projects and Registrar's Office. Such a declaration may be filed by a student at any time.
WPI graduate courses taken before a student had status as a degree seeking graduate student are included in the over-all GPA. A student’s program GPA is calculated on the basis of those WPI courses listed by the student on the student’s Application for Graduation form. The transcript will report the overall GPA.
The transcript will report the overall GPA. Courses transferred from elsewhere for graduate credit (for which a grade of CR is recorded on the WPI transcript), and courses taken to satisfy undergraduate degree requirements or to remove deficiencies in undergraduate preparation, are not included in either GPA.
WPI does not maintain a Cumulative Grade Point Average for undergraduate students. A student who needs a cumulative point average for external use may apply to the Registrar and receive a numerical equivalent. This information is usually provided only for students applying to graduate or professional schools when the application process requires a translation. Cumulative point averages will not be printed on student's transcripts nor shall class rankings be developed from them.
Each credit hour corresponds to a minimum of 3 hours of student engagement per week for a traditional 14-week course or 6 hours per week for a 7-week course.
This time may be spent on discussions, readings and lectures, study and research, and assignments. Most courses at AIC are three credit hours. Credits to be earned. Hours per week, 7-week course. Hours per week, 8-week course. Hours per week, 14-week course. 1 credit.
…a credit hour is an amount of work represented in intended learning outcomes and verified by evidence of student achievement that is an institutionally established equivalency that reasonably approximates not less than –
In the CSU, the faculty workload allocated for a course is determined by the C-classification or S-factor of a course (plus any ‘excess enrollment’ allocation that may be carried by a large lecture course) and total number of student credit units for the course.
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