<p>What are the best (highest ranked) universities that have a 3 year bachelor's degree program?</p>
<p>Cambridge, Oxford, and Imperial College.</p>
<p>Not sure if it’s high ranked enough for you, but Wesleyan does.</p>
<p>I still have a little confusion when it comes to “3-year bachelor’s degree.”
There are 4-year degrees yet people on average finish them in 5 or 6.
A 3-year degree simply can be taking 20+ units a semester in which some people do or having a lot of AP credits.</p>
<p>Note, though, that it’s mostly publics that would be willing to take a ton of AP credits (and some make it impossible to graduate in 3 years with certain majors, no matter how many AP credits).</p>
<p>is it possible to do that though?</p>
<p>It’s possible to graduate in 3 years in most public universities if you have enough college credit beforehand (I have two years of college credit and can technically graduate in 2 years from my state flagship - UT Austin if I decided to attend) AND/OR bulk up on extra credits (some colleges have a cap though) during your time at university to speed up your stay.</p>
<p>Note, however, that people who do this (the bulking up thing, and the fact that your stay in college will be shorter than your same-age peers) tend not to have as rich of a “college experience.”</p>
<p>I’m curious - why do you want to graduate in 3 years?</p>
<p>I’m not the original poster but:
For me, it’s to save money and a year without an engineering job is a huge loss.
–With a lot of APs, I’m actually on pace to graduate in 3 years without having to load up on extra units.
It still feels like a huge rush where I am not going to get to do every glorious thing that I could’ve done in college and take a relaxed schedule, but 
I stick to my commitments. ~2% of engineers get out in 4 at my college. 3 might be unprecedented and people are getting on my case about it so there is some pressure. If I can pull it off, I don’t see the huge loss in it unless the post-college work life consumes me up to where I can’t finish off some bucket list items when I can especially afford them.</p>
<p>@absentions:
Well, you’d still need to satisfy the major requirements at UT-Austin, which may or may not be possible in 2 years.</p>
<p>Also, while I would advise against overloading your schedule, considering that you haven’t actually had the college experience yet, saying that it wouldn’t be as rich if you stay 3 years instead of 4 seems a bit presumptuous (I stayed 4 years, BTW).</p>
<p>Personally, I thought that the being-20-something-with-money-to-spend experience was better than the broke-college-student experience. Obviously, if your family has money, that doesn’t apply. </p>
<p>My daughter graduated from SUNY Binghamton in 2.5 years…she did the IB diploma and got many credits from it and also a couple of summer/intersession courses. She didn’t have to overload. I told her not to be in a hurry but she was ready to move on to Grad School where she is now. The money saved is being used to pay for her grad school.</p>
<p>@PurpleTitan I wasn’t speaking from personal experience, only from what others told me and what I’ve read on this forum. It would also make sense, considering the student would probably spend the majority of their time studying and now on socializing/ECs.</p>
<p>@absentions:</p>
<p>If you enter with a lot of credits (from AP or IB), you’d still have plenty of time to socialize while keeping to a normal schedule.
I’d say don’t go in with preconceived notions.</p>
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You can do this at many colleges, if you take many college-level classes during high school. For example, Stanford permits up to 45 credits counted towards your degree from college level classes taken while in HS, such as AP classes, which is equivalent to one year. I had approximately the full 45 credits when I started, most of which were relevant to my degree, so I could have completed a bachelor’s degree in 3 years. Instead of graduating and leaving college early, I entered graduate degree programs early. After 4 years I had completed a bachleor’s, a master’s, and a good portion of a 2nd master’s… all in engineering fields.</p>