I don’t understand this, we had 5h of classes a day in CS for 4 years in Spain, it’s still like that, and it was not particularly strenuous. There was plenty of time left to start my first company and a reasonable amount of leisure time, while maintaining top grades.

I have been in a number of other prestigious universities across EU after that, the actual instruction quality and difficulty was not any lesser in Spain.

How do they even learn anything with 1.2h?

EDIT: sure including the weekend that’s 3.6h per day, still is 3x.