It Would Take 60 Years

IT WOULD TAKE 60 YEARS

For a Student to Take All Courses in the University.

The literary department of the University of Michigan offers to its students 500 different courses, covering a range of about 50 different subjects. Reckoned in terms of recitation or lecture periods, these courses occupy a little over 1,400 hours each half year or semester. As students may not elect more than 16 hours of work a week during any semester of their course, it may easily be computed that in order to take all the courses offered in this one department, a student would be obliged to spend at the university 44 years of his life. But this is only a fraction of the work done on the university campus. If there be added to this period the time required to graduate in the other six departments of the university, the result will be a total of about 60 years which one might spend at Ann Arbor before he had exhausted the resources of the institution, assuming that the university made no progress during that period.