I am an undergraduate degree in computer science. I was looking into graduate schools, but I was wondering how much of a time commitment is the typical program. Will I be able to have something of a personal life if I go for a graduate degree? I know that if I took a 9-5 I'll still have time for personal interests as well. Is it like a 9-5, or is it more of a time commitment? A lot of my upper level computer science classes doubled as masters level classes (they were in my class) and all they had to do was an extra project. I took more classes than most of the graduate students (I took 19 credit hours for 2 years straight..double major...while they were taking 12 credit hours,plus I work part time at a helpdesk for like 20 hours. I also had 2 part time jobs last year. ) .