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720 hours.
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on the finish.

Type the hours a program requires and the hours a week you can give it. The calculator counts weeks off and puts a date on the finish line.

Find my finish dateWhat you get

The career training duration calculator

The worked example is a 720-hour medical assistant certificate at 20 hours a week. Nothing you type leaves this browser.

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What you get

Vocations · Professional DevelopmentFree

What you finish with
The training weeks, calendar weeks, months and a finish date, with finish dates at 10, 15, 20, 30 and 40 hours a week. It prints as a summary to plan work and family time around.
Who it is for
Adults choosing a certificate or apprenticeship, career changers fitting training around a job, and seniors weighing a program after high school.
Format
Browser calculator for a phone, tablet or computer, by touch or keyboard. Prints a summary; downloads a spreadsheet (.csv); export and import a file.
Access
Free. No account, no sign-in and nothing to install. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The Professional Development space in Caveat Vocations.
Support
Questions, a correction or a request: team@caveatacademic.com.

How to use it

  1. Find the required hours.
  2. Type any hours already done.
  3. Set a pace you can keep.
  4. Count the weeks you will miss.
  5. Pick the start date.

Find my finish date

How the finish date is found

Hours, pace, time off and the calendar.

The worked example: a medical assistant certificateHours left720 hnone done yetAt 20 a week36 weeksof trainingWith 2 weeks off37.4 weekson the calendarFinishOct 1263 days after Jan 11The worked example: a medical assistant certificateHours left720 hnone done yetAt 20 a week36 weeksof trainingWith 2 weeks off37.4 weekson the calendarFinishOct 1263 days after Jan 11
Hours divided by pace give training weeks; weeks off stretch them across the calendar; the finish date counts forward from the start.

Where the hours come from

Programs measured in clock hours list them in the catalog; federal rules count an academic year in such a program as at least 900 clock hours over at least 26 weeks. A time-based registered apprenticeship runs at least 2,000 hours of on-the-job learning. Licensing hours vary by state and field, so use the figure your program or licensing board publishes.

Pace and time off

The pace is the hours you can really give it, not the most you could manage in a good week. Weeks off stretch the calendar in proportion: two weeks off a year adds about four percent. The table shows how much a few more hours a week moves the date.

Sources

  1. Electronic Code of Federal Regulations. 34 CFR 668.3, academic year, for clock-hour programs (ecfr.gov).
  2. Electronic Code of Federal Regulations. 29 CFR 29.5, standards of apprenticeship: term of apprenticeship (ecfr.gov).
  3. U.S. Department of Labor. Apprenticeship.gov: registered apprenticeship programs (apprenticeship.gov).
  4. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Occupational Outlook Handbook: how to become one, by occupation (bls.gov/ooh).

The date is an estimate from your own figures; programs set their own calendars and attendance rules. Your entries stay in this browser. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.