Schools Offering Bonuses To Help Students Graduate On Time

[ucbalumnus]

@DmitriR

What they usually mean is that some required classes are not available every semester or every year. This trips up some students if they take a non-standard path through a major, usually by changing majors late in their academic careers. Calling it ‘extortion’ is a little much; the issue is that not all universities can offer every class every semester. It costs a lot to offer a class and if only a handful of people need it there might not be staff or space available for it.

Infrequent offering of required courses tend to be more of an issue at smaller schools and smaller departments. If a required junior/senior-level course is offered once every two years, then a student may only have one chance to take it.