Semester Credit Hour Calculator
Sum your course credits and compare a target. Optionally convert contact, laboratory or independent-study hours using your own institution rules. All calculations stay in this browser.
No institutional, staffing, capacity or full-time policy is inferred.
No hour-to-credit conversion is performed without your ratio and provenance. Blank target and quantum are optional; all active course fields are required.
Converted courses use their own activity, ratio and weight. Enter separate rows for contact, lab or independent study. Rounding is applied before the course weight.
Credit units do not establish full-time status or transferability.
Leave quantum blank for no rounding. For other rounding methods, enter a positive quantum. All hours here are in hours, not minutes.
Enter all required values as nonnegative plain decimals; counts must be integers and divisors positive. At most 512 digits per numeric input. Names are required.
A QUICK WALKTHROUGH
How to use this tool
- Name each scenario and optionally enter your target credits.
- Add courses with entered credits or hours, explicit weights, and conversion rules when supplied.
- Calculate and inspect each course, all scenarios, and the exact report.
Method
Converted courses use their own activity, ratio and weight. Enter separate rows for contact, lab or independent study. Rounding is applied before the course weight.
Parsed values and formulas
No hour-to-credit conversion is performed without your ratio and provenance. Blank target and quantum are optional; all active course fields are required.
Frozen report
Exact fractions are retained when a decimal repeats. Enter all required values as nonnegative plain decimals; counts must be integers and divisors positive. At most 512 digits per numeric input. Names are required. No institutional, staffing, capacity or full-time policy is inferred.
GOOD TO KNOW
Common questions
Is there a standard contact-hour rule?
No. Hours per credit and the institution rule or source must come from you. Without a ratio, the conversion and total remain undefined.
Does this decide full-time status?
No. The tool sums declared course amounts and does not decide institutional enrollment or transfer policies.