ECTS to hours
The ECTS system is the European Credit Transfer System, every class has its credits and you have to breakdown how many hours of study it corresponds to. In my uni 1 ECTS corresponds roughly to 2 hours of study per week (including lectures hours).Â
So for example if you have the course Algorithms with 6 credits you have 12 hours per week in total. And if you have 4 lectures hours and 2 exercises hours per week that leaves you 6 hours of personal study per week.Â
This system is really helpful to see how many hours you should spend studying one course. You can also use this to plan your week.
I hope this small post helps you compute how many hours of study you need. I suggest doing this before the semester starts, the sooner the better!
