FM 17-02 Chapter 17 · Education
ECTS workload
ECTS to study hours and back, weekly load per course, and a semester planner.
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Hours per ECTS
ECTS and hours
- Hours
- 206.25
- Share of a year
- 12.5 % of 60 ECTS (FTE)
- Full-time year
- 60 ECTS = 1,650 hours
Weekly load for one course
- Per week
- 14.7 hours
Semester planner
- Course 1
- 206.3 h · 14.7 h/week
- Course 2
- 206.3 h · 14.7 h/week
- Course 3
- 412.5 h · 20.6 h/week
- Total
- 30 ECTS · 825 hours
- Peak week
- 50.1 hours, if all courses run at once
- Load
- 100 % of a full-time semester (30 ECTS)
60 ECTS is one full-time year. Denmark counts 1 ECTS as 27.5 hours, 1,650 hours a year (Ministry of Higher Education and Science, and the university education orders). The ECTS Users' Guide (European Commission, 2015) allows 25 to 30 hours per credit, so other countries differ. The hours cover everything: teaching, reading, assignments and exams.