How much time does uni take?
Depending on what course you are studying you will have between 12 and 30 contact hours per week (students enrolled in science and engineering courses will have more contact hours per week while arts students will have less).
You'll also need to spend time undertaking readings, studying lecture material and preparing assignments. Therefore it expected that full-time study (regardless of the course you're studying) equates to approximately the same amount of weekly hours as a full-time job.
To complete an entire degree typically takes three to four years of full-time study. Students have the option of studying full-time or part-time, or changing between the two. It is also possible to defer your studies before and during your course.
Below are some sample timetables that show you how university class schedules differ to school schedules and how study, socialising and work can be organised around class time.
Sample timetables
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday | |
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| 8am | Gym session | Gym session | |||||
| 9am | Prepare for tutorial | Study in library | Lecture Perspectives on Health and Wellbeing |
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| 10am | Tutorial Interprofessional Practice |
Work on assignment | Prepare for tutorial | Playing Footy | |||
| 11am | Lecture Human Bioscience |
Tutorial Human Bioscience |
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| 12am | Tutorial Human Bioscience |
Lecture Individual Determinants of Health |
Lecture Human Bioscience |
Tutorial Individual Determinants of Health | Work | ||
| 1pm | lunch with mates | Group study session | Lecture Individual Determinants of Health |
Lecture Human Bioscience | |||
| 2pm | Tutorial Interprofessional Practice |
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| 3pm | Lecture Interprofessional Practice |
Study in library | Tutorial Perspectives on Health and Wellbeing Workshop |
Review week's lecture notes with classmates | |||
| 4pm | Work | ||||||
| 5pm | |||||||
| 6pm | |||||||
| 7pm | Study at home | Gym session | Sam’s birthday party | ||||
| 8pm | Drinks with mates @ Eagle Bar | Work on assignment | |||||
| 9pm | |||||||
| 10pm |
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8am | Yoga @ La Trobe Sports Centre | Play rehearsal | |||||
| 9am | Prepare for tutorial | Prepare for tutorial | Prepare for tutorial | Work | Studying at home | ||
| 10am | Coffee with theatre group | Tutorial | Lecture | ||||
| Introduction to Literature | Introduction to Screen Analysis | ||||||
| 11am | Tutorial | Catch up with friends from class | Group study session in library | ||||
| Professional writing | |||||||
| 12pm | Lecture | Lecture | Work on assignment | ||||
| Theatre Knowledge and Practice | French (beginners) | ||||||
| 1pm | |||||||
| 2pm | Tutorial | Tutorial | Tutorial | ||||
| Theatre Knowledge and Practice | French (beginners) | Introduction to Screen Analysis | |||||
| 3pm | Lecture | ||||||
| Professional Writing | |||||||
| 4pm | Work on assignment | ||||||
| 5pm | Yoga @ La Trobe Sports Centre | Study at home | |||||
| 6pm | Work | Play rehearsal | |||||
| 7pm | Study at home | Tutoring | Night out with the girls | ||||
| 8pm | |||||||
| 9pm | |||||||
| 10pm |
