Paq

hi, just curious here, does your college/university run on 2 semesters adn various summer sessions or does it run on the quarter system. i mainly wanna know if it is a state thing or just random.

I'm at winthrop in south carolina and we have semester system.

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Min

Louisiana State Uni and Tulane use the semester system. I wouldn't be surprised if the other state schools use that as well.

n0nsensical

California seems to be pretty random. The UCs except Berkeley are on quarters, but most Community Colleges and at least some (most?) Cal States are on semesters. As for private universities, USC and USF have semesters, but Stanford has quarters.

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snowy

All the state schools in Oregon are on quarters; the private schools are on semesters. A couple of the schools have two semesters and a J-term (January term).

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Sugar&Spice

University of Idaho runs on semesters and I believe University of Montana does also.

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Daniel_

All UK universities use three terms:

Autumn - Christmas
Christmas - Easter
Easter - Summer

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metalgeek

Universities in Canada usually run:
Fall Semester: Sept-Dec
Wint: Jan-April
spring: may-june
summer july-aug
generally you take 2 courses (3 max) in spring and summer, as the hours per week double.

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maleficent

Back when the dinosaurs walked the earth and I was in college, there ere alot of schools in the US that were on a tri-mester schedule... I am not sure if they still are... I know people who were on such schedules it made it difficult to find summer jobs and especially internships because they got out of school a lot later than others.

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Elphaba

University of North Texas' psych graduate school termed it a semester system. We had a fall semester, a spring semester, and two more crash "semesters" during the summer. Now that was a "psych-out."

uncle phil

/me initially went through a trimester system...is that no longer an option?

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present_future

Truman State University - semesters

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n0nsensical

I do believe trimester is the same as quarters without counting the summer quarter. Either because there isn't one or it's not included because it's not "mandatory".

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Janey

when I went to Queen's, Frosh week started in the 2nd week of September, midterms were in the beginning of November and exams just before Christmas. Second Term started the first week of January, with reading week in February, followed by midterms. Exams were in April.

There was an inter-session during May/June, before summer school term started.

Paq

janey, that's almost exactly how my school is..

i'm beginning to think this is an east coast/west coast thing

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Kubz18

North Dakota State uses semesters as well

looks like its the majority going with that so far

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gremlinx8

Iowa State uses semesters as well.

Gilda

Two semesters with a six 4 day week summer session, with each period doubled in length..

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uncle phil

trimesters are four-month grading periods, three to a year...

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- Robert S. McNamara
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keyshawn

Kalamazoo College [Kalamazoo, MI] is on the quarter system - but with only 3 quarters; they don't offer a summer quarter, I'm told it's because they don't want kids to get burned out...

Each quarter is 10 weeks long, plus finals.

Fall Q: Sept 19th - December 1 [I'm including finals week for these dates]
winter jan 3 - march 16
spring march 27 - June 8th

As for others, I'm pretty sure almost all the colleges around Northern Ohio/Michigan area are on semesters - except for the Ohio State University.

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n0nsensical

Well I guess I wasn't aware of that...what kind of vacation is in that schedule?

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Grasshopper Green

When I was at the University of Utah, there were two semesters...spring and fall, and a short summer "quarter". Doesn't really fit in the poll, but I voted for semesters.

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radioguy

2 semesters at North Texas

uncle phil

none...college is not high school...

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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

Paq

well, unclephil, are you required to go all 3 semesters per year?

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Janey

I think that colleges are on the same cycle as universities, there must be some allowance for vacation periods (Christmas, summer, reading week). Most institutions expect a typical full time course load that does not include the summer school...

uncle phil

you could go to one, two, or all three...your choice...

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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

SecretMethod70

My university calls them quarters, but they're really trimesters. 10 weeks per term. I suppose they're called quarters because there is an optional "December quarter" during the 6 week winter break we have.

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telekinetic

ASU is set up on semester system, but has a decent number of classes that run a half-semester (both halves of both semesters), plus a winter session and two summer sessions, if you want them.

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wraithhibn

Semesters in KY. Quarters in OH.

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quarterly, which blows because we don't get enough time for each class, nor do you get decent breaks.

mystmarimatt

Linfield has two semesters, with a one-month january term in-between...which is a joke. It's just designed for heavy drinking, on campus, or abroad. Yummy.

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Oh man, i hate quarters. Semesters are much better!!!!

Catdaddy33

At Tennessee Tech, they switched from quarters to semesters in the middle of my time there. The conversion was a pain in the ass, and I ended up having to take an additional semester of English, cause I was a quarter behind, and the Dept refused let me off. I ended up graduating with a .3 hours in one of my English classes.

Oh and I liked semesters better.

CSflim

At Trinity College Dublin, in Ireland, we use three terms.

But confusingly enough, we also use two semesters! So the first term is in the first semester, the second term is split between the two semesters and the final term is in the second semester. But we only break between terms. The switch between semesters happens 'invisibly'.

So it's like:<pre>[term 1][term 2][term 3]<BR>[semester 1][semester 2]</pre>

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