STUDENT CREDIT HOURS. Student credit hours (SCH) is a measure of academic load for a student, a course, an academic unit (department or college), or the University as a whole.

A credit hour is a unit of measure representing an hour of instruction that can be applied to the total number of hours a student needs for completing degree requirements; course credits are the number of credit hours assigned to a particular course which a student earns upon successful completion. Student Credit Hours (SCH) result from multiplying course credits by the number of enrolled students, and are used as the basis for computing student FTE for funding and resource-matching purposes. For example, 10 students in one 3-credit class generate 30 student credit hours.

Student Contact Hour. one student receiving one hour of instruction from an instructor in a formal learning setting.

STUDENT CREDIT HOURS. A weighted statistic that represents the students being served by a particular course section. In fixed credit courses they are the product of the course credit hours times the course section enrollment e.g., 10 students in a 5 credit course section generate 50 SCH. For variable credit and Independent Study courses the credit taken by each enrollee in the section is determined and summed to obtain SCH.

Student Credit Hour

Semester credit hour