Hmm. My university "expects" you to spend ~30-40 hours a week studying for a fulltime load of 4 courses per 12-18 week semester (two semesters per year) depending on how you count it (12 weeks of real teaching, 2 weeks of breaks in the middle of that, 2 weeks of designated desperate catchup time, 2-4 weeks of exams) but in practice most courses have 2-6 hours a week of actual teaching and practicals and so forth during actual teaching and the rest is dependent on e.g. how quickly you can do exercises and how much study you need to do to pass tests. I'm probably on the lower side of how much you can do and still be a solid student but I don't have a solid inventory of time spent since I don't block out regular study time (my study tends to be more a putting-out-fires approach where I have a list of upcoming deadlines and piling up topics to study and I try and keep the number of fires as small as possible).
I usually have exams for about 80% of my subjects, but probably no more than 40% of my total grades come from exam scores. The general impression I have is that "softer" subjects in inside a department tend to not have exams; for me that's "ethics for engineers" and for you that's "How to use Excel"?
You can also fit in an extra course over summer if there's one you need on offer, and theoretically you can over the winter break as well but in practise that time clashes with exams so unless your exams are all super early in the exam period it's a deathwish. I don't do either, which makes uni only really take up like 2/3rds of my year.
(All of this is somewhat factually untrue for this specific year since I'm only getting 3/4 credit for my study in norway thanks to shenanigans; also the norwegian university does things slightly differently)
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It's honestly amazing how much some people can get done; correspondingly but not always overlappingly, it's horrifying how little some people do in their personal lives.
I think you'll be able to manage fulltime work! (Certainly you have a better chance than I do)
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I usually have exams for about 80% of my subjects, but probably no more than 40% of my total grades come from exam scores. The general impression I have is that "softer" subjects in inside a department tend to not have exams; for me that's "ethics for engineers" and for you that's "How to use Excel"?
You can also fit in an extra course over summer if there's one you need on offer, and theoretically you can over the winter break as well but in practise that time clashes with exams so unless your exams are all super early in the exam period it's a deathwish. I don't do either, which makes uni only really take up like 2/3rds of my year.
(All of this is somewhat factually untrue for this specific year since I'm only getting 3/4 credit for my study in norway thanks to shenanigans; also the norwegian university does things slightly differently)
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It's honestly amazing how much some people can get done; correspondingly but not always overlappingly, it's horrifying how little some people do in their personal lives.
I think you'll be able to manage fulltime work! (Certainly you have a better chance than I do)