How Long Did It Take To Get Your Bachelors Degree?

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Give me your input on how long it took you to obtain a bachelors degree (did you first go to a Community College if you live in the USA, did you take a break from school after graduating high school, or did you go straight to a 4 year institution after graduating from High School.) Give me your input.

I went straight to the university after high school in 2003, and initially took a degree in Computer Science, but after two years, I shifted to Broadcast Journalism. Stayed in the program for three years, then spent one full year afterward simply to accomplish thesis revisions. I just formally graduated this March.

Altogether, that was six years in total.

Four years. I was fortunate enough to already have a decent idea of what I wanted to study since I was fifteen. I'm now 23, starting a Master's program and only beginning to diverge from the original plan now, but I still probably won't go that far off.

It took me 4 years, plus one semester - which is fairly common for a music education degree (the extra semester is for student teaching.) When I enrolled, I was assigned a faculty adviser (I assume this is still the way it works), whose job it was to get me through in a reasonable amount of time & make sure that I was fulfilling all the requirements for graduation. He would periodically check that I wasn't overburdened by too many classes, but also that I was staying on schedule.

In total, I'm going to be taking 6 years for my Bachelors (Four year program, but 126 credit hours)

My first four years, I only went bare-minimum full-time/part-time. I caught up a bit using summer courses, but I didn't want to rush myself. Last year, and this year, I'm taking closer to a full full-time schedule, to get it over and done with.

That, and I tried to get into the program for my fourth year and didn't get accepted. Got accepted the year after, and only had to take two years.

I started college exactly twenty years after I graduated from highschool. I worked full time for the first three years, then part time for the second three and then work study for my senior year. graduated cum laude, too. sorta proud about that. ( and the kicker? SOCIOLOGY is one of my B.A. degrees! the other is Anthro.)

Merle

Well, let's see now, I think it's 36 years and still counting...won't be able to go back to school until I retire!

Then it should take me another year and a half, maybe.

I went to a community college between 1998 and 2002, getting my associate's degree in '02

I returned to said community college in 2004, staying until 2006. By then, I had reached the maximum number of credit hours from a community college that would be accepted by 4-year universities in Texas. I was taking class part-time while working full-time.

Then I transfered to a 4 year university in 2007 and I will be graduating in just over 3 months with my bachelor's degree.

Should take 4 years

Three years, I did it years ago. Now the university sector are moving towards 4 year degrees.

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I should be finished in December, 5.5 years after I started. I went right after high school, but I took a semester off due to health problems and then went back part time AND changed my major, so I got pretty behind.

I didn't really know how to vote. When I graduated high school I worked full-time for almost a year. Then I became a part-time student/full-time worker, before becoming a full-time student/part-time worker. I also had periods where I was a full-time student/full-time worker, but carrying 14 semester hours while working 50+ hours/week was draining. My coursework was varied, mostly general education/liberal arts courses at a community college, with a couple of different focus areas; I basically just took courses that interested me. I finally started concentrating on getting my bachelor's degree when I was 25, and I went to school full-time, graduating after 3 years.

So, technically, I could vote in the 7+ year category, but when I actually started working on my bachelor's program it only took 3 years.

Five years but it was a four-year degree and I was full time, and my parents were nice enough to let me stay with them. Kind of wish I hadn't rushed in straight from high school because I was pretty wet behind the ears and didn't take school seriously the first two years, which sucks for my GPA.

Anyone else here graduate "in absentia" for no real reason?

I will be received my Bachelor's Degree in the spring so on time for me since I took summer classes this summer.

I graduated high school a few months ago and I'm in community college now. I'll be here for a year before going to a university, but I'll start as a freshman. So if I finish there in 4 years I guess it will still count as five...I dunno :/

I was on the fifteen-year plan, myself.