Strangely it depends on where you got that degree and what you are using it for.
In the US you can take four or more years to complete a degree. You can also take four or few years to complete a degree. I completed my bachelor’s degree in 3.5 years and if I wanted I could have easily completed it in 3 years. There are many US online and campus based programs that are designed to complete a bachelor’s degree in 3 years. It has been reported that it can be completed by testing out in as little as 4 months see www.degree.com/new
However if you are coming in from another country there is a good deal of controversy with many universities, educators and evaluators saying a bachelor’s degree is or is not eqivalent to a bachelor’s degree. Certainly the UNESCO guidelines - which are legally binding - state that. However this is no guarantee that your non-US bachelor’s degree, even one that represents far more study hours than a US bachelor’s degree will be considered equivalent. While we as American’s seem to think we are the “gold standard” for world education looking at transcripts knows that many foreign degree holders have worked much harder than their conterparts in the US. For an interesting look at the Indian three year degree see http://degree.com/articles/3-year-indian-degree.html
I have a great deal of difficulty watching intelligent people who worked very hard for their bachelor’s degree in other countries be told that their degree does not equal a bachelor’s degree in the US because it did not take them four years to complete - even though we have many students completing many us programs in less than four years. To me this is terrible discrimination.
