He expects the company to become profitable by year-end and to be earning $5 to $10 a share annually within three years.

Those who begin teaching in September 2000 will need to earn a master's degree within two years of starting; they now have five years.

Louis Barnes, the club's chief financial officer, told the board that the fund might earn the club $1 million a year within five years.

A student with a decent engineering degree could be earning that in a bank within three years of starting.

A teacher becomes fully certified if the teacher earns a master's degree in education within five years.

All credits must be earned within six years.

More than 70% of recent alumni earned graduate or professional degrees within 10 years of graduation.

Some of them have projected that their own campuses will each earn at least $20 million in royalties from Unext.com within five to eight years.

Of the 26 freshman who entered the Notre Dame football program in 1985, 24, or 92.3 percent, earned degrees within five years.