How Many Classes For A Semester?
Since my beginnings here at the university, I have been taking a lot of credits per semester. One of the main reasons was that, if you take over 13 credits (which is considered full-time) with a maximum of 20 credits, the University does not charge you for the extra credits and since I wasn't able to transfer my credits, I basically had to take the same classes I had in my high school and university back home.
So during the freshman year, I had about 19 credits for the semester, most of them science classes and most them about things I have already encountered...! It was not really hard because let's take math for example; they give you an equation with a simple sentence for what you are expected to do, and even if your English is not good you can still understand it, and get really good grades in the classes.
At the U, the average number of credits per semester is 15-18. It usually suffices to get you to graduate in 4 years. Sometimes, if you plan on getting more than one major, or a major and some minors, you might have to take more than 15 one or more semester to satisfy the requirements or take some summer classes.
Since I have to meet requirement for my major, a minor and the graduate school I plan to go to, I am still on the "upper limit" of the credit students are allow to take for a semester. So far, it's going ok! I am having trouble dealing with papers and homeworks almost every week but eventually you get to organize yourself and plan your week accordingly (and get to sleep early!!! - early like 9pm not 2am in the morning!!).!