How many semesters are in a college year?

How many semesters are there in one year of college?

• Answer:

  It depends on the school. My school has two fifteen week semesters (fall and spring). It also has three one month semesters during the summer and a semester during the summer that lasts all summer long. There are two semesters in a year of college. Schools that divide their years into quarters or thirds usually use different terminology, such as "trimesters." There is usually two, Fall and Spring, but there are exceptions to this. Some schools have the Fall and Spring Semesters, but also have shorter summer and winter terms. Or they could use a completely different system and have 3 or 4 terms per year, usually called Quarters rather than Semester. Some schools that are semester based (two per year, Fall and Spring) call their smaller semesters that may even occur during the regular semesters, "mini-mesters." Summer semesters are usually referred to as "semesters." A college year is two semesters, not counting summer session. The quarter system is 4 quarters a year. Four years of college is 8 semesters if you have a full load of classes and the degree you are working on. There are two semesters in every school year. The root 'semi', in this case, mean half. So two parts in every year. There are 2 semesters in a year