There wasn't a standardised timeframe across universities for how long a course should be studied. Most of the time, universities both at home and abroad assigned the same number of years for a very long list of courses.
Computer Science generally took three to four years, but now in the U.S., across all universities, it had been firmly fixed at five.
The same thing happened to several other courses, and for some like Engineering, it was even worse, with an additional two years added.
Sade had brought the news premium to me and Isabella yesterday, but it was only today, as I sat at my desk, yet to go to school, that I saw it had been released to the public.
Reading through the article that had been sent to my email by the school, I saw that just like Sade had hinted yesterday, this decision was not made by the universities but by the government, and it was mandatory.