How many credits do you need for a bachelors degree?

College Majors
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Okay so I understand that you need 120 credit hours over 4 years. But what I’m curious about is how many of those hours need to be hours for your major? I’m double majoring in economics and Polysci and they didn’t stress that while scheduling. I want to know how many hours I have to spend in an economics class or Political science to be able to get that degree. They told me I’d graduate on time which I know I will because I don’t have to take many basics but I want to know if I’d be able to complete a minor too which I know you need 18 credit hours in so how many do you need for a major? I’ll be attending WVU if that helps any. I already looked on their website and can’t find it. I’d just like to know what the average amount needed is for a university

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It varies for each college. The WVU website does have that information. Your advisor will help you.

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I’ve looked many times on it. So if you say it does could you please send me the link?

4

Really??? Here:
http://catalog.wvu.edu/undergraduate/eberlycollegeofartsandsciences/politicalscience/#majortext

http://catalog.wvu.edu/undergraduate/eberlycollegeofartsandsciences/economics/#majortext

print out both pages, take one page and cross out all the duplicate classes, then take the classes that are left and write them in where you have electives

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Generally speaking, single majors require around 36 to 44 semester hours (about 9 to 11 courses). Looks like WVU’s economics major requires 36 (15 hours of core classes, 15 hours of economics electives, 3 hours of capstone and 3 hours of mathematics). The political science department also requires 36 (18 hours of political science courses, 15 hours of a related minor and 3 hours of capstone).

It’s not 100% clear to me what counts as a “related minor,” or whether double-majoring in economics will satisfy that requirement for you (so you don’t have to minor in yet a third field). You’ll have to ask a WVU advisor to get the answers to that.