The Expositors Seminary does not guarantee that all course work will be completed in four years. From the seminary's perspective, courses in this scheduled sequence, for example, may not always be offered due to insufficient enrollment (cf. cancellation of courses policy).

From the student's perspective, since the curriculum builds in a carefully designed sequence, i.e., course upon course, especially with regard to the original languages, he needs to commit himself to following this sequence for a timely completion of his program.