How can I finish four years of college in two years?

Question

I am not a high school student. I'm an adult who does not want to play when it comes to school, I just want to get it over with and move on to an actual career.

Answer 1

I did it in three years, and I think it would not have been possible to get throught faster than that. It will depend on your school. Some allow you to get credit by passing comprehensive exams over the material covered in courses.

But I advise that you get a good advisor, go over the requitements for graduation and for your major at the end of every term. Some may be offered only in alternate years. Go over your schedule repeatedly and check on available courses and when they are scheduled to be offered.

Going summers is no problem, but you must also take over-loads, and for that you have to stay in the Dean's List. Keeping good grades is hard when you have so many courses and, like I , have to keep a job too.

I doubt very much that you can do much more than shave a year off, but possibly others have done it and can give you advice better than mine.

Answer 2

Everyone here is dumb.... It's actually possible.

You have to take AP classes in high school and pass the exams and each exam will grant you about 3 credits. And take classes at a local community college and get requirements out of the way. then go into college full time. Take about 15-16 credits each semester including the summer.

I started college with 30 credits (1 years worth) and graduate in 3 years with no summer term and taking minimum classes.

My friend came into college with 60 credits (2 years worth), got a bachelors and 2 minors in 3 years and graduated 1st in his class and is going to med school right now. But of coarse none of us are as genius as him so I scratch his idea.

good luckkkkkkkk if you have any questions or need help planning, I'd be more than happy to help you. just email me.

Answer 3

You have to declare yourself as an accelerated student and will have to pay extra fees. In my college if you want to take more than 25 credits per semester, you have to pay an extra $690. But if you take 25 credits per semester, you can have 100 credits within two years. The remaining 20 credits can be done during summer school between the first year and the second year (or during winter school - early January).

Good luck with taking 25 credits a semester though. God knows you'll need it.

Answer 4

If you take 18 hours a sem. and go all summer terms (12 hours summer), it will take you 3 FULL years and you will have about 6 hours short you will have to pick up somewhere. Most schools will let you do 21 hours if your GPA is high enough. Let me caution you about trying to do summer terms. They go VERY fast and everyone I know who has gone to summer terms, has gotten burnt out and had to take a sem. off. You will plenty of time for a career..Enjoy your college life..It's o.k if it takes 5 years...take fewer classes and get better grades. Your employer isn't going to care if you finish school in 2 years or 6..they go by grades and whether you know what you studied..

Answer 5

I would look into a University that offers mostly online classes. When I was in college I loved my online classes because they freed me up~ You aren't running from class to class so you have more time to study which in turn helps you carry a heavier class load in a semester.

There are also some entry level classes that you can test out of so that you can proceed to the next level course automatically.

And a lot of University's will let you take 1 to 2 classes between semesters, they usually last one month and last almost all day.

I wouldn't do it though! It’s a good way to get burned out~

Answer 6

Take 20 credits each semester - fall, spring and summer. Some schools won't even let people do that much though because it's a good way to get burned out among other things.

Answer 7

Take the maximum amount of credits your college allows every quarter. Instead of taking the summer off, take classes all summer and again, take the maximum amount of credits your college allows for the summer session. If this doesn't get you done in 2 years, then take some correspondence courses that your college will accept for credit at the same time you're studying at your college.

Answer 8

Take 20 credits per term (that's about 6 classes per term), and even in the summer. It's going to be hard!

Answer 9

Take a tons of classes... try to take some from another school via correspondance. This has helped a lot of people speed the process up (not to mention saving $).

Answer 10

Double up your classes each sem and go to summer school. With a normal work load and summer school it is easy to do it in three, why not 2 with a real wok ehtic