Craven Community College operates on the semester system. The Fall and Spring semesters are sixteen (16) weeks in length and the Summer semester is approximately ten (10) weeks in length. The amount of time that a class meets each week is determined by the number of contact hours required for course completion.
Semester hours credit is awarded as follows: one semester credit hour for each sixteen (16) hours of class lecture, one semester credit hour for each thirty-two (32) hours of laboratory work, one semester credit hour for each forty-eight (48) hours of clinical, and one semester credit hour for each one hundred sixty (160) hours of work experience.