accounting for an undecided major

UVAMalex09
Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:05:52 +0000

It depends on how many credits you take each semester and if you are willing to go to summer school. The average amount of credits taken per semester is 15 or 16 credits. Without summer school, eight semesters (4 years) would bring you to a total of 120 or 128 credits. So let’s say you want to take more than 16 credits like 18. Without summer school, you would have accumulated 144 credits. If you take two 3-credit classes during the summers after first, second, and third years with a 16-credit semester workload, then you would have 128 credits from the regular semesters and 18 credits from the summer sessions, giving you a total of 146 credits. With a few semesters being harder than others, you could be taking more than 16 credits once and a while.

Of course, this is completely ignoring any AP, IB, or transfer credit you may have which could make achieving 150 credits a little easier.