At the moment I’m still in community college at age 23. I started at age 18 and probably will be 25 when I get all my classes to transfer. So probably finishing college overall, I may be 30. I guess I’m asking this to see if I’m the only person that is in school this long and will be that old when I graduate.
Four years, graduated when I was 21. But there are many paths, and the journey and destination are both more important than the pace.
It took me six years. I was 24. I have a friend who is over 50 and is just finishing her degree. Kids and life got in the way. There is no time limit.
4 years and graduated 2 weeks after I turned 21; I was sick and missed my entire first year or I’d have graduated in 3.
OTOH, my dad dropped out of HS, finished HS at 29 and then went on to night college.
A friend dropped out at 20, went back in his early 50’s and is now a nurse. Another friend graduated at 30ish and has since earned 2 masters. He is in his early 70’s and recently started a new job in IT.
5 years - 22 when I graduated.
Thanks everyone for their replies. I think I’m honestly just extremely insecure about it because I expected to be done already and people I grew up with are already graduating or have their careers. When I bump into people at the mall or anywhere else, they look so surprised that I haven’t transferred yet. It makes me feel bad because I still have several semesters before I can transfer with all my requirements.
This website has a pretty high proportion of so-called traditional students who start college at 18 and graduate in four years, but that’s not really the norm. I’d say it doesn’t matter too much how long you take to finish college as long as your debt is reasonable and you have a way to support yourself financially while you’re in school.