0.4.0: Course Load Recommendations
Many students have to work while attending college and it is important not to become overwhelmed. Time is a main source of stress for today´s multitasking college students. Butler recommends the following course load scenarios:
| Hours Working | College Credit Hours |
| 40+ | 3 |
| 30-39 | 6 |
| 20-29 | 9 |
| 1-19 | 12 or more |
*Information can be found in Butler´s Student Handbook.
It is important that you are honest about the amount of things you can juggle in a semester. For every hour in class, Butler recommends that a student should have 3 hours available to study. This means that a student who is taking 12 credit hours should have 36 hours available for study each week. Attending school full time is the equivalent to having a full-time job.
FL107 is a 5 credit hour class. Based on the college´s course load recommendation, that means you should have 15 hours available for study each week.