<p>I stumbled upon NCSU's grad rates on their website:</p>
<p>4 yr grad rate: 36%
5 yr grad rate: 65%
6 yr grad rate: 71%</p>
<p>What's the norm for getting an EE?</p>
<p>the degree itself is designed to be completed in 4 years under the normal amount of credit hours for each semester. the reason so many people do not graduate in four years in a lot of different degrees (according to an admissions officer at state during an hours visitation) is that more students are taking extra elective clases, studying abroad, and signing up for classes that aren't exactly geared towards their degree but are interesting to the student. Students aren't less involved; they are gaining more than a degree by attending nc state. For a lot of people, this simply takes more than 4 years.</p>
<p>If you stick to the suggested course selections in the four year course timeline and you do not take "extra" classes, study abroad, and pass your classes, you will graduate in 4 years. </p>
<p>It is all in what you are interested in and the experience you want to gain from college.</p>
<p>Later,</p>
<p>Josh</p>
<p>There is also a certain percentage of every entering class who will drop out/flunk out/transfer before graduation. </p>
<p>Most athletes take more than 4 years to graduate because of their sport. </p>
<p>Many more students now than in the past are working part-time or even full-time jobs while attending college so they can't always take the requisite amount of hours per semester to graduate in 4 years.</p>
<p>Many students change their major which puts them behind.</p>
<p>Sometimes certain classes are only offered in either fall or spring but not both. So if you can't fit that class in your schedule or you take the class and don't pass, you might have to wait until the next year to re-take it. </p>
<p>Some kids do co-op programs where they spend whole semsters just working and not taking any classes. Or if a kid is paying their own way through school, they may have to take off a semster here and there just to work to save up the money for tuition. </p>
<p>My husband got his Mechanical engineering degree from NCSU in 4 years.
I think he went to summer sch. one summer just to lighten his load.</p>
<p>My S took 5 yrs, that included a year of co-op. He double majored with a minor. Some summers he took classes and took a few classes when he was in co-op. Had he not done the co-op or taken summer classes he would have finished in 4 yrs with 1 major. Lots of his friends in engineering finished in 4 as well as friends in math, physics. To graduate in 4 yrs is very possible, but you can't change your major or do co-op or drop a lot of classes.</p>
<p>There aren't many calc instructor names listed in the fall 2007 course listing. Is there a way to find out who is teaching what section before you register for a class?</p>
<p>There are no names because in many cases a grad. student will be teaching the Calc. 1 classes and they haven't been assigned yet. The names of who is teaching each section will be added sometime in late July/ August probably.</p>
<p>When the names get added and you want someone else is it easy to switch to another class with openings?</p>
<p>PackMom: I replied before I read the AP thread where you answered this question. Many thanks!</p>