course load

English

Etymology

From course +‎ load.

Noun

course load (plural course loads)

1. The workload involved in an academic course.
   • 2009 August 18, Susan Dominus, “Connecting Anxious Parents and Educators, at $450 an Hour”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     A Type-A — make that A-plus — overachiever, even by New York standards, she skated competitively as a kid, finished M.I.T. in three and a half years, and tested out of a chunk of her courseload at Columbia Business School.

2. The number and difficulty of courses taken in an academic setting.