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Credit and Course Loads


In general, one credit represents 15 hours of classroom work or 30 hours of laboratory work, plus supplementary assignments, or the equivalent thereof. One credit of clinical laboratory in the Department of Nursing represents 45 clock hours of work. Unless otherwise stated, the number of credits assigned to a course is the number counted toward a Lehman College baccalaureate degree.