Not much time studying as in writing papers and do research. Most of psychology classes require a lot of papers and research. The written tests are not as onerous as the tasks. Sometimes the tests are based on what you've written and researched, so if you really put a lot of work to your tasks, you will get good grades. Many people drop out or take forever to graduate because they can't handle writing the papers. sometimes we have to do 3 research in a semester, only for a subject. Another subject requires more research. Well, at least it gives me chance to learn to write better.

Lots. You only get out what you put in. While in College I was working 40-50 hours a week. Then I had an accounting degree which required lots of book time and with the addition of law classes there was alot of library time. When I finished my Bachelors I went on for a degree in Real Estate-Investment and Finance. I did not pursue the law degree but felt it was a good background to have. By the first year 50% were gone from accounting and by the second year another 25% was gone to management degrees. If your attending college remember your paying for it and pick every instructors brain as much as possible.

As far as the other things go, I'm in grad school now so I don't really have classes anymore and I spend all my time doing research and teaching undergrad labs. But when I was undergrad, I would say I spent 15 hours a week in class, 20 hours a week working, 5-8 hours a night sleeping, 1-3 hours a week cleaning/shopping for groceries/doing laundry, and pretty much all the rest of my time studying.

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In the beginning, not much at all. Honestly, my freshman year, I did not study at ALL. Toward the end of my 4 years, my study habits had changed, but I still did not study an insane amount of time. I believe that it's not about how much TIME you spend studying but how effectively you study. So, I studied very effectively and graduated with an honors degree. Now that I am working on a graduate degree, I am following those same principles...study smarter, not harder.

I agree with Demanda: It is not so much the amount of time you put into studying that counts. It is the effectiveness of your studying that counts.

I put myself through college. I majored in English, which meant lots of assigned reading and writing outside of class time. Working full-time, it took me 8 years to complete my freshman and sophomore years, at community college. I took one class at a time. At first I spent twice as much time writing papers and reading as I spent in classes.

Gradually over those 8 years I got a feel for which 3 of the 8 assigned novels I would have to read in order to write my thesis for each course, what was fluff and what would be on the test, etc.

I had saved up so that I didn't have to work my junior year, at university. In a typical weekday during my junior year I was in class 4 hours and I studied (or wrote papers) another 4 hours. I took the weekends off to volunteer in various drama and psychological organizations. My senior year I worked 20 hours a week, but my school workload was still just 40 hours a week.

In graduate school: I did every assignment to the letter and achieved a 4.0 while working 20 hours per week. I think I was in class or student teaching 4 hours per day, and I studied 6 hours per day.

It greatly depended on what course one takes in college/universities. There is also the issue of course levels, where you go from an easy subject to a much harder version of that same subject such as math. The amount of courses I took greatly changed how much time I spent studying for example, the more classes I took, the more I studied. On a full schedule, I would study 14 to 20 hours a week, versus a not so full schedule it would be 8 to 12 hours of studying approximately.