[learc83]

I also went back as an adult. I felt like the semesters were too short if anything. The types in-depth projects we did in upper division classes needed 15 week semesters.

Even without the long projects, the vast majority of students in my CS and math classes couldn't have handled 2x the information. The shorter summer versions of hard classes always had a much higher fail rate.

At my university you could also take up to 21 hours if you had a good GPA, and you could go during the summer. If you could handle this, you could complete most degrees in 2.5 years.

I also didn't feel like my school treated me like a child, and 90% of my professors were fantastic.

When I had a class that covered a topic I was already familiar with, I used the opportunity to get even more familiar it with by tutoring, working on harder projects, and picking the professor's brain. I also took harder theoretical classes at every opportunity.

I worked as a programmer for almost a decade before i went back for CS, and I only had 2 classes that I thought were a waste of time (both practical non-theory classes taught by the same guy).

[ams6110]

> I also didn't feel like my school treated me like a child

It depends on the subject in my experience.

At my school (major state university) undergraduate business school classes were run like high school. Attendance taken, assigned seats, pop quizes, etc.

Science and Math courses were most "adult" in their treatment of students.

Elective social sciences (100-level psych, sociology, history, political science, etc.) varied somewhere in between.

I completed all my English lit and writing requirements in high school so not sure how those classes worked things.

[learc83]

You're probably right. I took a few undergrad business courses when I went to college the first time. They were the most...regimented I guess is the best way to describe it. Every single section of the lower level business classes had their tests all together in a big 300 person auditorium on Saturdays. Upper level courses also required students to wear suits to class.

It's probably mostly a function of how much they feel the need to treat students like kids. Even though my university had a very highly ranked business school, business in general was kind of the refuge for people who wanted to go to college but weren't sure what they wanted to do.

>I completed all my English lit and writing requirements in high school so not sure how those classes worked things.

I took 1103 instead of 1101 and 1102 because that was a thing you could do if your SAT score was high enough. It was much less high school like than the business classes. World Lit was an elective and it was nothing like high school, no attendance requirements, and no grades except for a 2 papers.