Four-year college plan
Eight terms, the courses you intend to take, and the credits they carry.
Four-year college plan
Sample layout
| Term | Course | Credits | Requirement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Year 1 fall | Writing | 3 | Core |
| Year 1 fall | Biology | 4 | Major |
| Year 1 spring | Statistics | 3 | Major |
Sample terms. Credit numbers are an example, not a degree rule.
What the plan is counting
A 4 year planner or course plan template is a grid of terms and courses. The useful number is credits per term and credits remaining against the degree. A plan that only lists course names cannot tell you that spring is overloaded. Put credits on every row. Mark the requirement the course is meant to fill (major, core, elective).
Your registrar's rules win over any template. This page is a worksheet. The degree navigator page covers the audit-style list of requirements universities often publish under that name. Update the plan at registration, not in May.
A workable term load
Add the credits for a term before you add another course. If your school treats 12 credits as full time and 18 as a ceiling, those are the numbers to write at the top of the term, taken from the catalog, not from this page. A course you might take is a status of 'planned'. A course you are in is 'enrolled'.
Questions
- How many terms are in a four-year plan?
- Eight fall and spring terms if you do not count summers. Add summer rows only for courses you will actually take then.