Lectures vs private study time

[Sarahcoggles]

Hi - does anyone know what the standard time spent in lectures/tutorials vs time studying alone is, for a subject such as geography? DS is keen on manchester metropolitan but the website says they only have 25% of the course being taught in person. The rest is self directed learning. Is this standard, or is this a low rate of face to face time ?

That's pretty standard IME. Most courses will have between 25-30% directed teaching hours. There are some exceptions of course, but that's pretty standard.

DH’s degree was in Physics and he had about ten to fifteen hours of lectures per week and three hours of 1:1 tutorials.

Yes . In fact art and philosophy type subjects have as little as 15% sometimes. Geography at 25% sounds about right. Sometimes first years struggle to adapt after classroom based A levels but usually find their stride by the second year.

That sounds about standard to me. 10 hours contact time. 40 hour working week.

DS2 did geography at glasgow (graduated in 2021). Ten to 15 hours contact hours per week plus approx 7 days field trips per year (he choose mainly physical options until covid hit).