[azhenley]

> because we go all day every day and don’t take breaks.

If you enroll in 15 credit hours at a university, that means 15 hours in a classroom plus 15-30 hours of assignments and labs. (1 credit hour = 1 hour class + 1-2 hours outside class, on average, per week).

That is full-time.

[jseliger]

That is an interesting theory but it does not seem supported by data: https://www.aacu.org/publications-research/periodicals/its-a... or https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/is-college-to....

CS may be somewhat different.

Many schools are also only in session between half and three-quarters of the year.

[azhenley]

Like you said, they didn't look at CS or engineering so your theory isn't supported by data either.

My universty/department's policy is to provide 2 hours of work per credit hour, and the students certainly claim to be spending even more than that! (The truth is likely somewhere in the middle.)

Good point about not being in session year round. It is fairly common to either take summer courses or to do an internship though, which I strongly encourage my students to do! Personally, I took summer courses every year of undergrad and did 5 internships in grad school.

[austenallred]

It also doesn’t include the full schedule. Break weeks, summers off, semester breaks, etc. - months of the year, all of which Lambda School doesn’t have.