Credits (or Credit Hour)

A collegiate credit hour is based on the Carnegie unit, 1 hour of lecture or 2 hours of laboratory, or 3 hours of independent study or research, for a single student per week. Strictly speaking, the student hour is approximately 15 hours of class or contact time, the equivalent of one-hour (50 minutes) of lecture time for a single student per week over the course of a semester, usually 16 weeks.