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xirokx

xirokx

xirokx

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hi there,

as a mature student thinking of going to university could anyone help me out and advise how many hours per week a full time university course lets say in computer science is?

does this differ from uni to uni?

is uni like a mon - fri 9-5 thing?

please advise

cheers
 
Generally sciences take far more out of your day than arts subjects do. I do Accounting and Finance and have probably averaged about 5 or 6 hours a day over the 3 years. This figure is obviously skewed by mid term when I do nothing, and the build up exams (I've got one tomorrow) when i've been working 12 hours a day for about 2 weeks.
 
Best advice is to ring up the University and ask them as courses really do vary. My psychology course has 3 days a week with 2 days consisting of 9-1 (2 lectures) and the final day 9-11. :)
 
Definitely not 9-5, depends on your course really. For a start wednesday afternoons are always left free for sports etc. I'm on a physics degree which probably has more hours than most courses, about 21 hours of timetabled lectures and labs. Still get a day off and wednesday afternoon off if i'm lucky.
 
You'll end up with about 25-30h a week of lectures, but I found that the work outside of class was quite straightforward and simple to do, so I could spend more time socialising when not in lectures (Enigneering Degree).

Some guys I knew were doing various humanities, they spent about 3h/week in lectures but then a good 25h/week doing big long arduous assignments.
 
About 15hrs a week here (maybe a bit more in first year due to more scheduled labs) in terms of contact time.

If you want to factor in the time you'll actually spend doing coursework and reading you're looking at a full working week (9-5 should do if you're aiming for a first)
 
Most likely about fifteen hours per week. May be split across all days, may be confined to one/two days. Depends on the Uni you're going to; redbricks might have more hours per week.
 
Well i do politics which is 9 hours a week (plus all the "reading" time and watching the news and being whitty about politics that count for my degree)

Mate does 6 hours a week with an english degree (even i think thats a joke).

Best to drop an email to the department though, the guy who was in the room next to me in halls had probably 5-6 hours a day for computer sciience (dont really like him though as he was abit of a conservative NI type of guy so i can only give an estimate). Seems to be a more demending with actual time in uni, but a bit less outside of it (this is based on the idea im supposed to do something like 10-15 hours of reading a week out side lectures....)
 
CompEng at UWE here. About 20-25 hours per week of scheduled time, but expect to be in considerably more actually doing the work. Less hours in the second year but more work, and I'm expecting the same again in the final year.
 
It depends on the course and uni. I get 3 lectures and a tutorial each week per maths module and I think that's about average for engineering and sciences at my uni. Modules with associated lab work tend to have more contact hours, I had 3 hour labs for both chem eng and chemistry on top of the usual lectures.
 
Doing aero at UWE, had about 20 hours lectures in the first year, about 15 in the second year. However in the second year I'm pretty much working 12 hours a day bar Friday when I have a shift at Tesco.
As a mature student, you'll probably find the first year harder, as it is more general, and covering the stuff you would have done at school and college. Whereas the second year the work will feel more like the kind you've been doing as your career. This of course depends ho mature you are ;p
 
I'm at Kent doing I.T. and during the first year we had lectures on three days a week, and for the second year four days. We are told that we are expected to be putting in 40 hours a week including lectures and working on our own - probably didn't do that for the first year, but this year has been quite tough and it's probably fairly accurate.
 
xirokx said:
hi there,

as a mature student thinking of going to university could anyone help me out and advise how many hours per week a full time university course lets say in computer science is?

does this differ from uni to uni?

is uni like a mon - fri 9-5 thing?

please advise

cheers
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Changes form uni and degree.
First year was about 7-9 hours a day monday to Friday, another 5-7 hours on Saturday.
In my final year I did about 11-12 hours a day 6 days a week for about 40-45 weeks.

There was about 20 hours of lectures or practicals a week. Each lecture had to be revised to have any hope of understanding. Then there was a lot of reading, exercises, homeworks, projects, final year project, exam revision, meetings with lecturer for help etc.
 
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As said above i think it varies from uni to uni and course to course, the games dev course I'm starting is September is supposed to be 10-15 hrs per week iirc? with no lecture or practicals on a Friday due to that being when the uni sports team are active. it's definitely not a 9-5 thing
 
As well as it only being 10-20 hours a week all in, remember it's only around 30 weeks a year. ~500 hrs a year, 1500 hrs over three years.

What's rubbish about the university system is that anyone actually working full time, 37.5 hrs a week for 47 weeks a year (1763 hrs) could easily complete a degree in a year. The kids muck around for three years to do what any mature/professional could do in a year.

I wish a few universities would offer a fast track one year degree for mature students.
 
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