How many years did it take for you to earn your Bachelor's Degree?

Question

Another survey: From the time you graduated from h.s., how long did it take for you to earn your degree and what obstacles did you face? How old were you when you earned it? How many colleges did you attend?

Answer 1

graduated high school at 17; went directly to college and graduated four years later with bachelors at 21.
Biggest obstacle was being homesick.

Answer 2

Took me 9 years. Most people I know took more than 4 or 5 years.
I started at a school I hated (University of Florida), lasted 2 1/2 years and transferred to community college. Got my AA degree, took some time off. Tried another school I hated (Kansas). Took some time off, went back to 4 year school and graduated in 2 years.

Obstacle: deciding what I wanted.

Answer 3

It took me 5-1/2 years, including two years that I dropped out in between, so it was 3-1/2 years of actual school. I had a major problem with depression while in college, which led to my dropping out twice, and it destroyed my self esteem for a good long time. After dropping out of my original college and major twice, and spending those two years working, I went back to a second university, changed my major, and finished 2-1/2 years worth of classwork in 1-1/2 years. I had turned 23 about a week before I graduated.

Answer 4

I got mine in 4 years, but that's only because I went to summer school every year (my degree required 140 hours). I was 22 at the time. I didn't really face any major obstacles other than money problems.

Answer 5

It took me four and a half years to finish my B.A. degree in English with a history minor and teacher certification. My obstacle was of my own making. At the end of my sophomore year, I decided to transfer to another college because I thought I could get a superior program there.

Well, that was a disaster. Not only was the program not superior it was not even equal to the one I had been in. Also, it was in a cold climate and, I was told, I was there in their worst winter in a hundred years. When we had a blizzard and had to cling to a rope to walk (or, rather, to slide on the ice) from one building to another, I had had enough. This southern lady was more than ready to return to her college in the South. I stayed at the northern college only one semester and took one semester off at home to recuperate from my horrible experience!

I will have to admit that one factor that entered into my not liking the northern college was that I had so many friends at the southern school and I was homesick for them.

I graduated in 1951 (can you wrap your mind around that!) with high honors at the age of 23. I attended only two colleges - one for four years and the other for one semester.

P.S. I am a retired college registrar and there is no question in my mind that the obstacle that kept most students from graduating in four years was that they couldn't make up their minds what they wanted to do. By continually changing majors, they wound up having to take many extra credits. Other significant factors that kept students in college beyond the minimum four years were lack of sufficient financial support and poor preparation or lack of ability to handle college courses successfully.

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Answer 6

Well generally it takes 4 years for most of the majors to complete. But there are other special programs in College that take around 5 years to complete.

The challenges depend from people to people. If you have worked in your high school then you shouldnt have problems.

Good Luck!

Answer 7

I graduated at 18 then got an associate's degree in two years, tansferred and got my bachelor's in another three, so five altogether. I was 23 when I finished.

Answer 8

4 1/2 years I wish I would have stayed longer god it is so much fun