<p>ON businessweek.com, ross ranks #2 for students who spend the most time on homework (over 22 hours a week!). IS Ross really that bad?</p>
<p>I’m not in business (engineering), but in my opinion, 22 hours a week of homework is nothing. That comes out to about 3 hours a day. I mean, the main point of college is to study/do homework, so spending 1/8th of your time doing that is really not a lot.</p>
<p>^I agree. There are a lot of programs of study at the university level where 3 hours of homework per day would be considered light to moderate.</p>
<p>I’m not in Ross (Junior, bio major) and I usually put in 4-5 hours per weekday and often much more on weekends, taking 18 credits with research. And, yet I still have time to have a social life. So, 3 hours a day is not bad at all.</p>
<p>Not that anyone listens to advisers, but they tell you at orientation (this was the basic orientation for all students) that the number of hours you study a week should be equivalent to 2-3 times the number of hours you’re taking. It really depends on your schedule, but I’d say that most students put in more than 22 hours a week, especially if they remember to include those all-nighters (or almost all-nighters) that occur for some a couple times a semester and for others 3-4 times a week.</p>
<p>Keep in mind there are classes that a lot of people can get through without doing all the work, and a minority of varying size of students don’t do the work, while others take certain weeks off. These classes tend to be reading classes that require you to read 1-2 books a week or 200ish pages in research papers. It’s easy for a reading class to become low priority when you have other classes with long written assignments.</p>
<p>And more specific to Ross…</p>
<p>I’m involved in lots of student organizations on campus and most of them include a lot of people in Ross. Of course, maybe Ross students tend to be more ambitious about building resumes and don’t really need to have research jobs and so on.
I have a friend in Ross who’s (probably) very much one of those resume-builders. He told me you just have to learn what you can do and what you can skip (meetings, classes, readings, so on) and be practical/smart about it (that sounds depressing to me, I rather give up sleep…kind of).</p>
<p>Honestly… I spent more time doing homework than that in high school.</p>
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<p>I prefer 2-3 times the number of hours you actually spend in lecture that week. Much more accurate.</p>