Labor A fundamental part of any student's education is the time he spends in the labor program. Deep Springs is both a college and a working ranch, and the work students do reflects that fact.
Students typically work at least twenty hours a week.
The bulk of student labor at Deep Springs is broken up into positions. Each position lasts for a set number of academic terms, usually one or two. After a student's time in a position is up, he must submit to the Labor Commissioner a list of his preferred assignments for the next term. The Labor Commissioner, a student elected for two terms by the student body, compiles all the labor preferences and decides the next term's labor assignments. The only required position is BH, which all students must do for at least one term.