Credits Info

CREDITS AT HUFS

CREDIT OVERVIEW

Since 2025, HUFS has required 126 credits for graduation undergraduate progrmas. Master's programs usually consists of 24 credit hours of coursework, plus a thesis completed in four semesters or two years. A regular semester (Spring: From March - June, Fall: September - December) lasts 15 weeks.

Credits and Class Hours

- One HUFS credit
  - 15 hours of class time, with each class hour equivalent to 50 minutes for regular courses or 100 minutes for laboratory courses, over a period of no less than two weeks.
- 3 HUFS credits = 45 hours of class time.
- 12 HUFS credits per semester = 180 hours of time spent in class*.
  - *This does not include any study work spent outside of the lecture/lab period.

Semester Course Load

Undergraduate Students

- 20 HUFS credits are the very maximum we can allow for exchange and visiting students to take during one semester, but the average regular undergraduate student at HUFS will take between 12 to 16 HUFS credits in order to graduate in 8 semesters with 126 credits.
- Exchange students are required to take at least one regular course, regardless of whether they participate in the Intensive Korean Program.

Graduate Students

- Graduate exchange and visiting students can take a maximum of 12 HUFS credits in graduate-level classes. Due to the nature of adjusting to a new academic environment, we usually recommend our exchange and visiting students to take 12 HUFS credits a semester, with a minimum of 9 HUFS credits.

Intensive Korean Program Students

- Students must take at least ONE regular course from HUFS undergraduate degree along with the Intensive Korean Program.
- The intensive Korean language program does not offer HUFS credits, but rather offers 200 hours of language instruction. Exchange and visiting students should work with their home universities to determine how they may transfer those hours into their own universities' credits.

HUFS credit conversion

The credit conversion from HUFS to ECTS is as follows.

- 1 HUFS credit = 1.67 ECTS credits
- 2 HUFS credits = 3.34 ECTS credits
- 3 HUFS credits = 5.01 ECTS credits

HUFS Grading Scale

Regular Semester Course performance is graded on the following 100- point scale

- A+ 100-96, A0 95-91|B+ 90-86, B0 85-81|C+ 80-76, C0 75-71 |D+ 70-66, D0 65-60 | F 59 - 0

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