<p>My son heard a rumor that it will take 5 years to graduate with a Bachelors in Engineering at Florida. Is there any truth to this rumor?</p>
<p>I’ve heard that Engineering is a difficult major and it’s hard to graduating within 4 years, but not impossible. A lot of students do, however, will take 5 years to graduate because it is such a challenging major.</p>
<p>I hear it’s a 5-year program.</p>
<p>It’s a 4 year program. However, it may take 4.5-5 years depending on the person, not the school.</p>
<p>It’s officially a 9-10 semester program, which would mean 4 years if you take classes over 1-2 of the summers. If you enter with credits from examination, obviously this will be lessened.</p>
<p>If you are an intelligent, hardworking person, you can easily do it in 4 years. If you’re not, I’ve seen people on their 6th or 7th year. It depends on the person.</p>
<p>Mechanical and aerospace engineering (MAE) are 4 year programs with a required summer of classes somewhere in between. I’m not sure about other engineering majors but I would guess they’re in line with MAE.</p>
<p>Yes, some programs would take five years. You could finish faster with summer stuff, though.</p>
<p>You can easily expect an engineering student to take an extra semester or two to graduate – especially if they go on a couple of internships. Keep in mind that it also depends on how many AP credits the student came to UF with.</p>
<p>D’s coming in with 45 credit hours of AP. At the end of her first year, she’ll be classified as a junior (in terms of hours). She’ll have done all her pre-engineering requirements for ChemE, and she’s beginning the ChemE sequence of engineering classes. She’ll finish in 4 years w/o taking summer classes. So it can definitely be done w/ a lot of AP credit. </p>
<p>zebes</p>
<p>W/O summer, 6 years maybe more realistic. If one had an engineering curriculum in HS and completed physics w/ calculus, 4 years wouldn’t be out of reach. (phys w calc has certain prereqs of which reduce the curriculum) It may even be as long as 8 years. Depending on the branch you may want to do research and graduate studies. It can also help in becoming a CTO, CEO, or any executive position. (Depending on ambition and personality) Engineering manager isn’t too bad of a career either.</p>
<p>If you’re taking 6 years or more at UF, you either failed/dropped a upper level core class (which will set you back a full year), graduating with a masters in hand, or are a part-time student. Or those first 3 years weren’t spent in engineering.</p>
<p>If you take the recommended number of courses per semester, you will end up taking 4 years (including having stayed one summer). However, most people become lazy and just take the minimum 12 to keep Bright Futures and thus take longer. I myself graduated in 3.5 from ECE by taking roughly 16 credits per semester, so 4 years is quite doable. I did come in with approximately 30 AP credits, however.</p>