ECTS : a common credit system
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The international agreement of Bologna develops a common system of evaluation ECTS (European Credit Transfert Unit).
What is a credit system?
A credit system is a systematic way of describing an educational programme by attaching credits to its components. The definition of credits in higher education systems may be based on different parameters, such as student workload, learning outcomes and contact hours. Credits are allocated to all educational components of a study programme (such as modules, courses, placements, dissertation work, etc.) and reflect the quantity of work each component requires to achieve its specific objectives or learning outcomes in relation to the total quantity of work necessary to complete a full year of study successfully.
The value of one credit
1 credit ECTS represents around 25 to 30 work hours (courses, tutorials, labs, workshops, home work,...).
One semester of training is estimated to 30 credits ECTS, and one full academic year to 60 ECTS*
* Correspondence between local credits (i.e got in your university, if they different from ECTS) in ECTS Credits and their relevance with expected training is under the strict responsibility of the engineering schools of "n+i" Network and its members.
Levels of competence L, M, D and credits.
It is asked, after the secondary level:
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180 credits to obtain a Bachelor (Licence) (maximum which can be credited),
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300 credits to obtain a Master, or from the Bachelor level, 120 credits more (180+120 = 300 credits),,
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Then 180 credits after a Master, to obtain a Doctorate.
Student workload in ECTS consists of the time required to complete all planned learning activities such as attending lectures, seminars, independent and private study, preparation of projects and examinations.
more information: http://ec.europa.eu/education/programmes/socrates/ects/index_en.html
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