Definition of credit hour
: the unit of measuring educational credit usually based on the number of classroom hours per week throughout a term
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Under a partnership the University of Texas at San Antonio, students in their junior and senior years at MacArthur University Prep, or MacUP for short, will be able to earn up to 24 college credit hours by taking classes at UTSA’s downtown campus.
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Poole spent the last year and half finishing up his remaining credit hours at Fort Valley State (around 30).
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Candidates with 60 or more college credit hours will receive points as well.
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With the new Kansas rate, students who qualify would pay the Missouri in-state rate of $278 per student credit hour — a savings of almost $14,000 a year for a full-time student taking 30 credit hours.
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Officials plan to come up with less stringent definitions for the credit hour, for example.
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That works out to an increase of $10.84 per credit hour.
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The board on Tuesday night will vote on new rates that lower tuition by $1 per credit hour for all students, which includes DACA recipients.
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That early college high school program will allow students to earn up to 60 credit hours while attending classes on the A&M-SA campus.
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circa 1927
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