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<p>The course may be “smaller” (less material), or it may have more class time per week to cover the same material, or it may be split over two quarters (covering more material, or with less class time per week to cover the same material), compared to a single semester system course.</p>
<p>Overall, you should theoretically learn the same amount of material, but it is likely to be organized differently in making it into quarter versus semester courses.</p>
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<p>1 quarter credit = 2/3 semester credit</p>
<p>However, the typical graduation requirement is 180 quarter credits or 120 semester credits. You are expected to take 15 credits per term, or 45 quarter credits per year at a quarter system school, or 30 semester credits per year at a semester system school.</p>
<p>The biggest issue with transferring is that if you take a partial sequence of something like math or physics, you may have to partially repeat a course for which you have partial credit. For example, freshman calculus is split into three courses in a quarter system and two courses in a semester system (but overall the same amount of instruction and material learned). If you take two quarters of freshman calculus and then transfer to a semester school, you may have to take the second semester there, partially repeating the second quarter you took before.</p>