quarter system
Three-term academic year
The quarter system is an academic calendar that divides the school year into four terms of roughly ten weeks each—fall, winter, spring, and sometimes summer.
Universities on the quarter system typically require students to take fewer courses per term but more terms per year than those on semesters: Stanford runs on the quarter system.
The pace feels faster, with finals arriving seemingly as soon as classes begin.
- semesterHalf academic year
- trimesterThirteen-week span
- academicRelating to education or theory
- academic calendarInstitution's yearly timeline
- calendarDate-tracking system
fall · winter · spring · credits · enrollment · finals · final exams · midterms · Stanford · UCLA · schedule · registration · tuition · syllabus · coursework · grading · grade point average · intensive
- college termsuniversity, community college, fall semester, spring semester, liberal arts college
- educationeducation, school, schools, teachers, students
- academiaprofessors, universities, graduation cap, biology department, professor
- School Administrationprincipals, vice principal, school boards, assistant principal, headmaster
- Campus Rulesacademic integrity, grading policy, attendance, plagiarism, academic probation
- university systemsSUNY, Cal State, Big Ten, Ivy League, community colleges
quarter, system, quarters, quartered, quartering, quarterly, quartet, quart, quartile