Published Program Length

The chart below represents the amount of classroom time that each program will take to complete. For example, a 24 credit hour short-term certificate will take a student going full-time, two semesters to complete. Following Sinclair’s academic year, two semesters is equivalent to 1 academic year, 9 months or 32 weeks.

CREDIT HOURS IN PROGRAM	YEARS	MONTHS	WEEKS
12 or less	.5	5	16
13 to 24	1.0	9	32
25 to 36	1.5	14	48
37	2.0	18	64

60	2.5	23	80
61 to 73	3.0	27	96

Years were calculated based on (credit hours ÷ 12) ÷ 2 because there are 2 terms per year in the academic calendar.

Months were calculated based on years x 9 months because budgets for an academic year are based on 9 months.

Weeks were calculated based on the number of terms in a year x 16 weeks.