How many hours a week was your uni course?

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I am just curious to see how much work different courses have. It would also be helpful to put your contact time and how much you worked in your free time.
 
History & Politics; 12 hours lectures/seminars, expected to do the same amount of reading outside of class and then however long the assignments, lecture/seminar prep took. It was a general rule of thumb that it was 12 hours of each a week.
 
My course was 12-18 hours lectures / tutorials but you get out what you put in if you want a decent degree classification expect to put in at least a 40 hour week :)
 
Course: Mathematical Physics
1st year was about 20-25 hours including labs, tutorials and problem classes
2nd and 3rd years I didn't have labs and stopped going to problem classes and most tutorials, so that leaves something nearer 10 hours per week of lectures.
Out of those I probably made 6 hours per week.

Work outside of this was pretty much 0 hours per week except for a while photocopying lectures notes from people who went to all their lectures and a few days in the library near exam times trying to figure out what the hell my lectures were about.

Perhaps unsurprisingly I ended up with a 2.2!
 
1st year - 12hrs a week
2nd year - 10 hrs a week
3rd year - 4hrs a week.

History at Royal Holloway, University of London.

EDIT: We were supposed to spend forty hours a week reading... or something.
 
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I had about 12 hours a week if lectures/tutorials/labs.
Usually did another 4-5 hours a week on coursework etc.
So 16-17 hours/week total with a bit more around exams/coursework hand ins.
 
Mechanical Engineering at Leeds. We had about 14 hours of lectures a week and then probably about 14 hours outside of lectures. I was far from a model student though, so some people probably did more. I did, however, spend about 100 hours doing my dissertation.
 
wow ?!

I did Applied geology, a long time ago and i was doing 20-25h a week lectures + 15h a week lab time in 2nd year.

1st year a gang of us spent about 4h a day doing Petrology slide work+ lectures. Made some good friends talking **** for hours on end.

I hardly did any work out of uni - but when there worked quite hard.
 
Changed term to term, around 12-15 though.

Did do a lot of extra work though, a good 7-10 hours a week on average probably... But then again, there were 2 or 3 weeks periods when I had no deadlines looming (usually middway through second term) where I did absolutely nothing and barely went in.
 
Environmental Geoscience / Geology (same course in first year at Bris) was 18 hours a week at it's peak, 12 by the end. Expected to do the same outside of lectures obviously.
 
Computer Systems Engineering
1st Year - 25h Contact, probably 10h Outside
2nd Year - 15h Contact, 20h+ Outside
3rd Year - 5-10h Contact - 40+++ Outside
 
Efour2 said:
wow ?!

I did Applied geology, a long time ago and i was doing 20-25h a week lectures + 15h a week lab time in 2nd year.

1st year a gang of us spent about 4h a day doing Petrology slide work+ lectures. Made some good friends talking **** for hours on end.

I hardly did any work out of uni - but when there worked quite hard.
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Nothing like that today!

Hxc said:
Environmental Geoscience / Geology (same course in first year at Bris) was 18 hours a week at it's peak, 12 by the end. Expected to do the same outside of lectures obviously.
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That was about the same for me on my Geology undergrad. Plus the 9-5+ for a couple of weeks a year when on fieldwork.

Masters was a steady 30-40 hours contact time though and anything from 10-30+ hours a week of hand in work*

Makes you appreciate work, so many less hours and you get paid!

*No, not just me doing that amount on coursework, I was one of the dossers!
 
for my course (AI + cybernetics) they expected every 10 credits to take 100 hours over the 2 and a bit terms before the exams, which makes the degree 1200 hours over ~22 weeks

we had 25 hours set lectures + labs for both the first and second year and you were expected to fill the rest of the time with personal study.

since this would mean a 9-9 working week with 1/2 hr for lunch very few people put anywhere close to this amount of work in
 
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