<p>How many years will it take you to complete your undergraduate degree? What's your major ( what about double majoring)? What do you understand national and at your school the average amount of years it take to complete ones undergraduate degree?</p>
<p>(When speaking of years, also mention total in semesters)</p>
<p>Thanks, I ask these questions out of interest due to myself who have always though most complete their undergraduate degree within four years ( or 8 semesters). I myself plan to attend graduate school, though during my undergraduate years would like to double major in political science and economics, or economics and international relations. I question on whether this is double within four years.</p>
<p>At the small liberal arts college I attend, double majoring is discouraged, but there is no reason why anyone (of reasonable intelligence) couldn’t complete a double major in the social sciences in four years. I would be worried if you were talking about hard sciences though. I am an economics major, by the way.</p>
<p>If I just wanted a single major, I could finish it in 2 years (studying abroad in the summer and taking a few summer classes the next summer- I would finish at the end of my 2nd summer). </p>
<p>However, I am going all four years and double majoring (Arts & Humanities and Anthropology) and double minoring (Spanish and Religious Studies). Total would be 9 semesters I guess (the study abroad is 12 credits, therefore a semester). </p>
<p>At my school- 8 or 9 semesters is pretty typical. About the same for the national average. </p>
<p>Coolbreeze, that double major should be no problem.</p>
<p>I will probably be graduating in five years since I did horrible my freshman year and also will be transferring twice. Purdue students seem to have a higher % of students graduating in five than four years from what I see…</p>
<p>My major is economics/math and buisness minor. it will take 4 1/2 to 5 years to complete my degree but that is due to transferring and not taking classes over the summer.</p>
<p>You’re half-correct. I’m at MSU but I’m in-state :). </p>
<p>Nah, the courseload isn’t too tough. I am averaging about 17 credits a semester. I think the difference is that I love every class I take (well, more or less- there’s always an outlier :p) which makes the coursework much easier :). Plus, I am fortunate to have three jobs and two of them allow me to do homework while there :). I have no gen ed requirements (which are notorious for having busy work) which also makes the credits a lot easier to handle. The Spanish classes are super easy, which helps quite a bit. Plus, my study abroad directly goes to my major and my minor (8 RCAH credits and 4 Spanish credits). </p>
<p>Coolbreeze, if you’re getting a lot of AP credits- that also makes it MUCH easier to double major :).</p>
<p>Planning on majoring in Geography (BA) and Marketing - because I currently work in market research - and I think it is a very dynamic combination of majors that matches my interests (history, social, political for geography, I like my current job in marketing). Should get it done within 4 years, but totally comfortable with 5. I don’t understand why so many people are in such a rush. As my dad would say, it wouldn’t have mattered where he was if he was 55 or 65. Eventually, you just live, work, and die. Couldn’t hurt to spend the best time of your life (college) taking it easy and completing a single major in 4 years or a two majors in a little more than that.</p>
<p>4 years in engineering at VT. There’s hardly ever any reason to double major; you’re almost always better off spending your time doing something else. If I had to give a rough guess as to how long it took on average in my major (MSE) I’d say about 80% of those that don’t do any transferring get it done in 4.</p>