The credits for each course at SJTU LEC International Summer School are calculated based on the total instructional hours.
Each course has a total instructional duration of 50 hours, specifically including 40 hours of scheduled lecture hours (either in-person or online) and 10 hours of discussion sessions. Beyond these scheduled sessions, students are required to spend 21 hours per week on self-directed study for each course.
The credit calculation of SJTU LEC International Summer School follows the credit-hour standard of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU): one contact hour is defined as 45 minutes, and 16 contact hours accumulate to one academic credit hour. Therefore, one academic credit hour corresponds to a total instructional duration of 720 minutes (45 minutes × 16).