Earning credits

If you are studying on the Junior Year Abroad for a nine-month academic year, you must register for a full year’s load of 120 credits of modules which usually equals 32 credit hours under the American credit system. Fifteen credits at Kent equals four credit hours and involves approximately the same amount of work.

If you are registering for the Fall Semester or the Spring Semester you must take 60 credits worth of modules which equate to 16 credit hours under the American credit system. Your transcript will show a translation of University of Kent degree marks to US equivalents, using the conversion equivalents shown opposite.

European Credit Transfer System (ECTS)

Kent has adopted the European Credit Transfer system. This system was developed by the Commission of the European Communities in order to guarantee academic recognition of studies throughout universities and colleges across Europe.

Modules at Kent, in addition to their own credit values, carry an ECTS credit weighting. In ECTS 60 credits represent the workload of a year of study, so ECTS credit values are usually half those allocated by Kent. The comparative values are

Students taking part in ECTS receive full credit for all academic work successfully carried out at an ECTS partner institution, and you can transfer these credits from one institution to another. The transcript you get at the end of your stay at Kent will include ECTS grades.

Equivalence to American credit system