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University education Bachelor’s degree (학사, Haksa) The bachelor’s programmes have a customary nominal duration of 4 years; programmes in medicine and dentistry normally take 6 years. Students need 140 credits to complete a 4-year bachelor’s programme, where each credit represents 1 hour of lectures/tutorials or 2 hours of lab/practical work per week, over a 16-week semester. During the course, students take 42 credits’ worth of general s