How long did it take you to get yr undergrad degree?

Five. I could have done four, but I wanted to write a thesis.

Years in grad school: 5.
Consolation prize: Master's degree.

5.5 years / 2 undergrad degrees

Assuming all goes to plan, 4 and a half years. Would've been 4 but I was offered a scholarship if I stayed an extra semester and finished up a thesis.

6 yeasr / 2 undergrad engineering degrees

6 and 1/2 years for a measly BA. Kids, don't change your major multiple times and/or bounce around schools any more than absolutely necessary.

I can also second that.

But also don't not do it if you know you will be absolutely miserable w/chosen major #1.

5 yrs BA/MA

3 yrs BA

You guys making me cry.

I didn't like school.

4 ridic yrs/BA

4 years for a worthless degree in psychology from Univ. of MO-Columbia, surely one of the worst schools on the planet for psychology.

4 years = BA English w/ some CS and accounting = guaranteed boring office job for rest of life

5 years and I hated every goddamn minute of it

3.5 years for my BSN. College sux, but I love how I had a job before I even passed my boards or graduated.

in yr 3 of 6 (or longer if i fuck up)

6.5 over the course of 11. Half a doz major changes, easy. And now I'm doing something completely unrelated to my degree.

7.5. I voted 6.5 by accident.

(not including a previous aborted attempt, of which I completed ~80%)

3 years! There's nowt much scope to do differently here, though some people do repeat a year.

Four years in Scotland, though non-Scottish Britisher A-Level bods (rather than Highers, which are the Scottish "equivalent" of A-Levels despite being slightly easier) can go straight into second year in some subjects because first year at a Scottish university more or less covers the difference between Highers and A-Levels (I did A-level maths at school and slept through my entire 1st year maths classes at university and still came out with a distinction level pass)

you guys took a log time! i thought 3 was pretty much standard for most BAs, no?

Sorry, mean "non-Scottish-state-educated" there - Scottish people are allowed to do A-Levels, they just aren't the examination of choice in the Scottish state system. I didn't go to a state school, so did both.

but nowadays a lot more kids stay on to do 'advanced' highers, which are equivalent (actually slightly preferred) to A-levels and often allow you go into 2nd year too.

Is that like SYS? Can you still do them?

I could google this, I suppose.

four years, at edinburgh, to get what -- wonderfully -- calls itself an MA (Hons) in english language and literature but isn't a "proper" master's degree.

i look back at the amount of work i did and the level of a fuck i gave (ie about my course; most of what i was doing was fucking about with bloody journalism, which was a lot of work) and think, i didn't really deserve that. i guess i'm making up for it now with my MSc :(

Four years, as is pretty standard in the US. If you'd suggested to me at the time that It could've taken longer, I would have scoffed and said, "Yes but why would I take a year off?" (Everyone I knew who took a semester or a year off did so because they had some kind of breakdown. Everyone else - four years, period. I guess it was the school.)

xxxpost: yeah, advanced highers replaced sys in 2000. now the gold standard in the uk, apparently: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article557498.ece

3 years, kinda envious of countries with 4 year degrees tbh.

I did a term at Trinity College Dublin in my 3rd year and had some classes with 3rd years and some with 4th years cos I guess English 3rd year falls somewhere in between.

You have to do the US BA course in 4 years if you are on financial aid at a private college. There's no wiggle room for breakdowns at colleges like that unless your trust fund(er) covers it.

straight in straight out hello world

Four years, including compulsory (for modern languages) year abroad.

4.5 years (4 years straight through, a summer class before my freshman year, and 2 classes between 2nd & 3rd years).

10 years: 2 yrs in school, failed everything, 5 years working, back to school for another 3 yrs. graduated in april this year.

I voted wrong... 7 1/2 should be 7. but I also took some time off to be mentally evaluated.

Five years the first round, alternating between doing really well when I cared, and getting close to being kicked out when I didn't. Could have still actually graduated but just gave up and blew off the last quarter and left. Worked for two years, went back but had to take a full year to get all the classes I needed, got straight A's, then finally, officially graduated.

Lesson: don't go to a school with limited options in your hometown if I have no idea what you want to do.

It took me five years but I blame the fact that I was a double major in English and philosophy and at my school it was far from easy to get into required classes because it was so huge.

started in 2002 and prob got 2 more years left. but that long time period incl breaks that i didn't go to school or was enrolled and paid for school but didn't go to classes.

4 years. And then I graduated and thought, "Hey, for the first time in my life I don't know what I'm 'supposed to do' for the next several years! Awesome!"

4 years. pretty much 3.5 of them sucked. a lot. soul-killing.

provided i don't fail anything, by February - 5 years, two undergrad degrees.

Five years.

Just wrapped up the standard 4 yrs and out with a double BA in worthless and barely worth anything (poli sci/economics) in may. public uni with lower expectations.

everyone who got it done in 4 years or less are nerds who deserve to die

unless their major was something dumb like physical education, than I completely understand why it only took 4 years

however it's not technically dumb because masseuses get paid a lot.

six years, two wasted on a course I didn't want to be on, then back for a smooth four years.

I took Advanced Highers in what I think was the year they were introduced, and they were ridiculous. For the first time in my life I had to work, and then I went to university and suddenly everything was easy again, and so it continued. I supposed they've evened it out a bit now.

but in general I hate nerds

Three years. I think that was the case for at least 90% of students in England when I did my degree (apart from the ones who did a course that took four years, obviously). I know of about three or four people who took longer, either because they dropped out of their first year for personal reasons and then started from scratch at a different university, or failed the exams and came back and repeated a year, but that a very small minority. The system isn't really geared up for people to wait until they are ready for an exam: you all take it at the same time and either pass or fail and that's it.

5 years for a 4 year course. I am a Master of Engineering, allegedly.

Where is answer for "Yeah, I still haven't got around to finishing that, oh, 20 years later or so..."

Four years, two years, one year postgrad.

I said four although I went a couple of summers. Guess that's still four. I think I graduated with more hours than a needed for a B.A. Two grad courses. lame.

four years for B hons business. still can't do my own accounts.

started two courses before that, lasted two weeks in law and six months in computer systems. going back next year, probably for teaching qualifications.

My brother's school, BYU-Idaho, I think they'll let you attend for max of 4.5 or 5 years (standard 4-year degree program school). No room for the indecisive. I'd have been so fucked. That or I'd be gradjamated w/my original degree plan of English teaching in a high school. Which I am 95% sure would have made me miserable(r).

My school has a rule that they cut off your financial aid after 8 semesters, except in rare exceptions (like if medical issues or lack of support for learning disabilities makes you have to repeat a semester or a year). The year I graduated was the last year they allowed early graduation, too. Several of my friends who are still in school decided to take time off in the middle to work & figure out what they wanted to do.

I'm preety sure it's almost time the financial aid was tugged from under my feet.

it took me 4 becuse i filed an entire year. bachelor degrees in AUS are only 3 years long because we somehow manage to fit in more than 8 hours of classes a week. amazing, i know!

I am regretting starting this thread. I should have started it on "confused people with mental illnesses board," would've made me feel less the mong.

4 years, plus an extra year hanging around editing the uni paper, which was technically a breach of the student union charter as I was no longer a student, but I kept quiet about that until it was too late for them to do anything about it.

it took me 4 becuse i filed an entire year. bachelor degrees in AUS are only 3 years long because we somehow manage to fit in more than 8 hours of classes a week. amazing, i know!

minimum course load for being a full time student at my school is 12 hrs (which actually means ~16.5 hours in class each week). most ppl take 14-16 hours a semester and take 5 yrs to graduate. no filing involved.

so basically smug aussies gtfo

4 years.

in AUS doing an arts degree requires a minimum of 16 hours class time which is why arts students arent really considered college students esp by science students who min 35 class hours and med and law who do way way more.

so basically smug curtis' gtfo

12 hours is not 8 hours

I don't know what kind of numbers they teach in your colleges but that's how 12 and 8 compare in the good old U.S. of A!!!!!!! http://www.freewebs.com/supportourtroops09/558355~Eagle-Firework-Patriotism-in-the-USA-Posters.jpg

you really did go to college!

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those hearts are meant for curtis, not you jagger

god im like super bitch lately

haha no I was the bitchy one

I need hearts too, my 3-year degree means I, yet tender, am now cast out, freshers week passing beyond my ken, hope and opportunity bursting from hearts my own age, while I fester here, writer's block, unemployable, brother in intensive care with life-threatening diabetic shock, dad with glaucoma, girlfriend still out of the country, sacking still ringing in my ears, no money, and all the rest of it

3 years to get my useless degree. i had 32 hours per week in first year, i think 28-odd in second year. quite a bit less in third due to not doing any subjects that required pracs

Four years is supposed to be standard in Canada, but I think I'm the only person I know who managed it in that time. One friend did his in 3.5 years, but most are taking/have taken 5+ due to having to work part-time and/or due to program changes, double degrees, shitty course selections, or paid editing positions at the student paper. The only reason I finished 'on time' was because I took courses straight through spring and summer for the first two years (which turned out nicely for my last few semesters when I only had three courses per semester... grades reflected this hugely) and made my schedule so that I had at least two full weekdays off so I could work 8-hour days rather than just evenings and weekends.

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Three years, and I'd finished it all by the time I was 20 years old and nine months.

3 1/2 - finished a couple quarters early just after my 21st birthday

4 even, and they were doing buy one get one free on masters in my subject so I got one of those too. Unfortunately the postgraduate phase has not been such smooth sailing.

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4 years, but the third year was a compulsory "industrial placement year", in other words, work somewhere as an intern for a year.