<p>I may have mistunderstood....but is that correct?</p>
<p>no. Generally people who double major come in with some AP or transfer credit, and then just take the extra courses over the regular 4 years (or during the summer). The number of extra courses is going to vary a lot depending on your individual school's requirements and which majors you are looking at. Closely allied majors with a lot of overlap on required courses will be easier to do than two totally different majors with no required courses in common. Your best bet is to go to your school's website and figure out the requirements for the majors you want, and then figure out how many courses you would have to take per semester to finish in 4 years.</p>
<p>I was considering Mathematics and Psychology....there are some requirements for Pshyscology for 8 other courses than those in this concentration and in Mathematics for 4 other courses that those in this concentration(if I clearly understood)....and I was thinkig I could take the 8 courses required for Psycology in Mathematics and vice versa....is that ok?
PS: I'm an international stundent...and I'm tring now to figure out exactly how things stand with going to college in the USA.</p>
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<p>possibly. Some schools have a distribution requirement also (like "8 other courses in at least 3 different departments"). This varies a lot from school to school, and even department to department w/in a school.</p>
<p>ok.....thanks</p>
<p>A double major entails nothing more than satisfying the major requirements for two majors. A double degree typically requires an extra 30 credit hours, making it a five-year program. This would apply if the two majors are from different schools, e.g. liberal arts and engineering.</p>
<p>If you need 35 credits for a major (it seems most at my school are 30, with some prereqs that don't count toward your 30), and you want to do 2 of them, then that's 70 credits, plue maybe 12-15 that are required but don't count toward your total, which puts you at 85 credits, which means you still need 35 more to graduate.</p>
<p>(8 semesters x 15 credits (usually 5 classes) a semester = 120 credits)</p>
<p>Remember all schools are different, and have different policies for double majors. At my school you have to compete all of the requirments of both majors with no more than 2 upper division classes overlaping. For my double major I will complete 225 quarter units, which is the max allowed at my school.</p>