Graduate in 4 years

Colleges and Universities A-Z Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
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<p>What are the chances of graduating in 4 years at Cal Poly? Does it depend on the major? Or the agressiveness of the student? Is this likely to get worse because of the budget cuts? Thanks for any input.</p>

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<p>It kind of does depend on your major. I was looking up the stats a while ago: <a href=“http://www.calpoly.edu/~inststdy/ret_grad/persistence.pdf[/url]”>http://www.calpoly.edu/~inststdy/ret_grad/persistence.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Scroll down to page 9, Chart #3, to see 4 year graduation rates by college. College of Engineering and College of Agriculture and Environmental Design have roughly a 5% rate of graduates getting out in 4 years. Yes, the data is years old, but I wouldn’t imagine the trend to have changed that much until now, where I think they can now put you on probation if you don’t graduate in a certain amount of quarters due to budget cuts.</p>

<p>But it could also depend on how aggressive you are. Last quarter I took 20 credits (5 classes). Now I’m taking 32 credits (8 classes). I’m trying to graduate in 4 years (I’m an engineer), maybe even 3.</p>

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<p>Thanks, compwiz,for the info, but its kind of depressing!</p>

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<p>If you have a fair amount of AP credits and do some summer school, you should be able to graduate in 4 years. My son is a first year Engineering student and is having trouble getting support courses. And he’s having to crash just to get GEs due to a bad lottery pick this quarter. He’s already thinking about summer school.</p>

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<p>it takes longer than private schools. thats for sure. unless ur crazy smart and u do a lot of units in one quarter. i had an admissions person come from whittier college and they said it takes much longer. however that might be biased.</p>

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<p>My son is a 3rd year engineering student at CPSLO and so far he is 1 class short of being on track to graduate in 4 years. He has repeated 4 courses, but entered Cal Poly with credit for 3 classes through AP exams. He takes the recommended number of units (usually 16-17) each quarter, and he has always been able to get the major and support courses he has needed.</p>

<p>He still has most of his GE’s to go (which I understand are the hardest to get), but if need be, he can take some of those over that summer at home through the local community college.
I’m optimistic that IF HE PASSES EVERYTHING, he can graduate in 4 years (or 4 years + 1 quarter).</p>

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<p>Compwiz, what’s it like to take 20 quarter units? Is it somewhat manageable?</p>

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<p>Yeah, it’s pretty manageable. If you already know some of the topics being taught in the course it makes things easier.</p>

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<p>wow. 32 units in 1 quarter? That’s insane.</p>