Glossary
Credit: how a programme measures your work
A credit measures working time, and nothing else. The official catalogue sets the rule once and for all: 25 hours of work per credit, 10 of them taught. You read a programme the way you read an hours budget.
The measure, in plain terms
A credit expresses the workload of a course unit: 25 hours in total, 10 of them led by an instructor and the rest carried by you. A six-credit unit therefore stands for one hundred and fifty hours of your time, sixty of them with a trainer. This arithmetic is public, stable and identical across all 30 catalogue programmes.
- One credit is 25 hours of work, 10 of them taught
- Credits add up: the densest programme carries 180 credits
- Credits are counted the same way on long programmes and short courses
What a credit takes out of your week
Every unit of the Computer Science programme states its credits and its hours. You add them up, you get the volume for the year, you compare it with the time you genuinely have each week, and you decide with your eyes open. It is also the first arithmetic a credit-recognition office redoes when you present your record elsewhere.
- of work per credit
- 25 h
- taught within those hours
- 10 h
- credits on the densest programme
- 180
- taught on that same programme
- 1800 h
Official catalogue rule.
Programmes where credits are counted
3 catalogue programmes put “Credit” to work: 304 credits and 3040 taught hours in total. The official rule holds throughout — one credit stands for 25 hours of work, 10 of them taught. Every line below is recomputed from the programme page: level, duration, credits, taught volume and fees in Guinean francs appear exactly as filed in the official catalogue.
| Programme | Level | Duration | Volume | Fees |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Science programme — Bac+3 level | Bachelor's degree | 3 years | 180 credits · 1800 taught hours | 5 400 000 GNF per year |
| Artificial Intelligence programme — Bac+5 level | Master's degree | 2 years | 120 credits · 1200 taught hours | 7 800 000 GNF per year |
| Advanced Excel | Short course | 2 months | 4 credits · 40 taught hours | 900 000 GNF in total |
3 frequent questions
Is a credit worth the same everywhere in the catalogue?
Yes. All 30 programmes apply the same rule: 25 hours of work per credit, 10 of them taught. That is what makes two programme pages comparable line by line.
How do I convert credits into contact hours?
Multiply by 10. One hundred and twenty credits represent 1,200 taught hours; the remaining 1,800 hours are work you carry at your own pace.
Do short courses award credits?
Yes, and they display them exactly as long programmes do: four to six credits depending on the format, with the matching hours.
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