semester system
Two-term academic year
A semester system divides the academic year into two main terms, typically fall and spring, each lasting about fifteen to eighteen weeks.
This is the dominant calendar structure in American higher education: The university operates on a semester system.
It contrasts with quarter systems, which divide the year into three or four shorter terms.
- academic yearEducational institution's annual cycle
- academic calendarInstitution's yearly timeline
- final examsCumulative end-of-term assessments
- midterm examsAssessments given mid-semester
- winter breakSchool pause in December
term · biannual · curriculum · quarter · course catalog · academic term · credit hours · course load · attendance policies · independent study · registration deadlines · half-year · graduation requirements · transcript · freshman · study abroad programs · enrollment · full-time student
- school calendaracademic calendar, trimester, quarter, winter break, summer vacation
- Brazilian Educationprofessor, vestibular, colegio, campus, biblioteca
- Asian UniversitiesPeking University, Tokyo University, Sun Yat-sen, Jawaharlal Nehru
- educationeducation, school, schools, teachers, students
- schoolsprimary school, school, college, academy, high school
- universitiesuniversities, Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge
temporal division approach
semester systemself-paced learning
Education proceeding at individual speed