Computer Science or Computer Engineering?

[Manoel]

Originally Posted by EricH

At my school, if you want to go over 18 credits, you have to have an overload form on file. 18 is considered a lot.

Admittedly, the way we calculate credits is 1 credit-hour per 3 hours of expected work, so a 3-day-a-week class is typically 3 credits because you'll often have 1 hour in class and 2 hours of homework for that class, times three days of class. Not sure if it's the same in Brazil.

One credit is approximately one hour of class (50 minutes for undergrad, full hour for graduate school). 30 credits means (approximately) 30 hours in class per week. Homework, although not common, and other extra-class activities are not counted there and are, well, extra-class.

The two-hour-of-study-per-hour-of-class-given tale is told around here too, though it's not really necessary, except maybe for harder graduate courses.