Toss-up: UC Berkeley or Dartmouth College??!! for Engineering

sentimentGX4
Fri, 04 Feb 2011 01:36:11 +0000

bluebayou:

At other quarter colleges, students would take ~4 courses per term.

At UCLA at least, this is untrue. Students have the option of taking 4 courses per term but they may take 3 or 5 courses as well. The bulk of degrees at UCLA only require 3 courses per term for a 4 year graduation.

Engineering students may require 4 courses per term to graduate in 4 years but they have 1 extra unit to toss around (for a unit cap total of 20 units) and a lot of their courses are only 4 units so they have the option to take 5 classes a quarter.