This doesn't make any sense. A full-time student spends at least 2.4 hours in class per day by definition. Most universities consider a student full-time if they take more than 12 credit-hours per semester, and a credit-hour is one hour of in-class instruction per week. That works out to 2.4 hours per weekday. In practice most students take 15 credit-hours, which means they spend three hours in class per day.
The chart is from The Heritage Foundation, so it's a lie but I assume not fabricated from whole cloth. Did they count weekends and holidays in the denominator, perhaps?
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This doesn't make any sense. A full-time student spends at least 2.4 hours in class per day by definition. Most universities consider a student full-time if they take more than 12 credit-hours per semester, and a credit-hour is one hour of in-class instruction per week. That works out to 2.4 hours per weekday. In practice most students take 15 credit-hours, which means they spend three hours in class per day.
The chart is from The Heritage Foundation, so it's a lie but I assume not fabricated from whole cloth. Did they count weekends and holidays in the denominator, perhaps?
Weekends probably count.
It doesn't add up. 12/7 ≈ 1.7 > 1.2
Also, counting weekends would be dishonest without pointing it out. A full-time job is eight hours per day, not 5.7.