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Course Credits

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).

Course Grades

Course grades at SJTU LEC International Summer School are scored using either a 100-point scale or a letter grade scale. Details of the scoring scales and corresponding grade points are shown in the table below:

Number grade Letter grade GPA
90-100 A 4
85-89 A- 3.7
80-84 B+ 3.3
75-79 B 3
70-74 B- 2.7
67-69 C+ 2.3
65-66 C 2
62-64 C- 1.7
60-61 D 1
≤59 F (Failure) --
W (Withdrawal) W (Withdrawal) --
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