quarter system vs. semester system

silencenow
Thu, 21 Jul 2005 16:56:43 +0000

I know of one school that uses tirmesters. There, they are are just as many weeks as semesters somewere else (I think 16 or 17 weeks) but they just don’t have summer break and a month break between fall and spring. Not sure about spring break and such, but who cares. So you can still do 3 full trimesters in a year and that is the equivalent credits and course work as 1.5 years at a semester school. After two years that’s the equivelant credit as 3 years elsewere.

For some reason most students don’t take advantage of it though, they do two trimesters and still take the summer off.