Contact your school, if necessary, to gain access to your academic records.
Colleges and universities measure the completion of a course in credit hours or course credits. Most schools measure courses in three or four credit hour blocks. Many jobs require an Associate's degree or Bachelor's degree in a specific field of study. If you haven't completed your schooling, but you have almost all of the course credits necessary, you can list your hours of education on your resume to show your prospective employer your history of schooling.
Instructions
1. Check your academic records to see whether you're listed as a freshman, sophomore, junior or senior. In general, to be considered a sophomore, you must have completed at least 40 credit hours; to be considered a junior, you must have completed 84 credit hours; and to be considered a senior, you must have completed 128 credit hours.
2. Check your academic transcripts. If you have an associate's degree, you should have a minimum of 60 credit hours earned. If you have a bachelor's degree, you should have completed at least 120 credit hours. If you have a master's degree, you should have completed at least 150 credit hours of college education.
3. Calculate your hours of education based on your student status. Credit hours for full-time students attending spring and fall semesters ranges from 12 hours to 18 hours; summer semesters range from three to seven hours. Credit hours for part-time students ranges from three hours to nine hours. Multiply the number of credit hours you've earned each semester by the number of semesters you've completed overall.
4. Add the hours of education to your resume. In reverse chronological order, list the names of each institution you've earned or intend to earn a degree from. Include the degrees and majors affiliated with each school. Put the date of completion, or expected date of completion, next to the degree information. On the line below, list the number of credit hours earned toward the degrees so far. For example:
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
B.S. Chemistry, February 2013
Total credit hours: 75
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