American Universities are scattered throughout a country twice as large as India. The academic sessions begin and close according to local climatic or weather conditions, which vary a great deal.
Nine months of College work constitutes one academic year.
The session begins in September and extends to the end of January; and from February to the middle of June, Thus the academic year is divided into two semesters.
The University of California starts and closes one month earlier. The University of Chicago has four quarters of twelve weeks each.
Summer sessions or more precisely Summer schools as they are called are an unique American institution unknown in India.
Summer vacation lasts for three months from the middle of June to the middle of September.
Almost every large University holds a summer session of about six weeks. Distinguished professors, specialists exchange their seats during this short period teaching in colleges other than their own.
In the Universities class-work lasts from 8 in the morning till 6 in the evening with the intermission of an hour
