Semester Plan

The university offers a variety of schedules: a semester schedule and a term schedule. The semester schedule includes two fifteen-week semesters per year and one twelve-week semester during the summer. The term schedule includes six eight-week terms throughout the year.

The unit regularly used for the measurement toward graduation is the semester hour, which is the equivalent of the credit earned in a course which meets one hour per week for a semester. In this program of study, nine semester hours is considered full-time with twelve hours considered a maximum load over two consecutive terms in the typical semester.

Fall Semester – 15 weeks
Fall Term 1 – 8 weeks
Fall Term 2 – 8 weeks
J-Term – 6 days
Spring Semester – 15 weeks
Spring Term 3 – 8 weeks
Spring Term 4 – 8 weeks
Summer Semester– 12 weeks
Summer Term 5 – 8 weeks
Summer Term 6 – 8 weeks

FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS CATALOG, SEMESTER HOURS WILL BE CALLED CREDIT HOURS.