<p>No, your point was that professional degrees require more credits and are therefore harder. </p>
<p>Yes, it’s easier to a liberal arts major to double major. And yes, professional degrees tend to be more difficult; not because they require more credits, but because they are more difficult classes.</p>
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<p>lol could you be any more insulting?</p>
<p>What I was trying to say is that you can take ~50 hours of p.e. classes, ~50 hours of poli sci classes, ~20 hours of geneds and graduate with a degree in political science. </p>
<p>Engineering makes you take ~100 hours of engineering coursework, and ~20 hours of geneds. </p>
<p>You can slack off a lot more in one program than in the other.</p>
<p>Considering that you pretty much stated that liberal arts majors aren’t serious students unless they double major or go indepth in their major using the notion that more credits in major = harder, then no.</p>
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<p>uhhh if you only need 39 credits to major in english, what are you going to do with the rest of your credit hours? if you are a serious student, you aren’t going to be taking p.e. and intro classes in 10 subjects.</p>
<p>I thought about double majoring. Then I took a good look at the general requirements at my school, my current major, and where I want to go…</p>
<p>For me it doesn’t make much sense to double up unless I designed my own second major. I’d rather just minor and major at most and spend that extra energy getting experience in my field. </p>
<p>It really depends…some majors have so many overlapping courses that you might as well major in both if you really want to.</p>
<p>After reading through, it seems like double majoring in international relations and economics is a good ideal?</p>
<p>If each major doesn’t require too many credit hours, you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>I see, well this is my top choice university departments for each major… I couldn’t find the requirements of credit hours, if anyone can point it out that would be great.</p>
<p>[Department</a> of Economics, University of Michigan](<a href=“http://www.lsa.umich.edu/econ]Department”>Economics | U-M LSA)
[Center</a> for International and Comparative Studies](<a href=“http://www.ii.umich.edu/cics/academics/major]Center”>http://www.ii.umich.edu/cics/academics/major)</p>
<p>Check the general catalog, if UMich has one. In there will be a list of requirements (ie courses, credits, GE’s etc.) and you can do it more directly. Also, in addition, I would wait until you’re in college, especially after a quarter, before deciding these kinds of things. Who knows where you will end up next fall anyway? And, you might find something you truly love while in college.</p>
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I just wanted an ideal, but that your right. I actually just posted a thread on how I need more top choices… I briefly explain the reason, here is the link:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/751308-looking-more-top-choice-universities.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/751308-looking-more-top-choice-universities.html</a></p>
<p>“This is not true. It isn’t even close. At my school a major in electrical engineering requires 94 credit hours of work, not counting geneds, and a major in political science requires 50 credit hours.”</p>
<p>And as I said I was posting what it is like at MY school. I did not say ALL schools.</p>
<p>And at my school its the same amount of required classes. And it’s not just a bunch of BS electives for liberal arts majors. You have more freedom to pick the topic of your class but you still have to take the same amount of courses, etc as the other kids.</p>
<p>Plus the liberal art kids must have a minor and they have extra core requirements, like 2 years of foreign language.</p>
<p>BTW, you are only allowed three PE classes at my school. </p>
<p>AGAIN at MY school.</p>
<p>Are you sure about that?</p>
<p>I don’t know why I’m so adamant about this but from reading the curricula at UT Austin:</p>
<p>An English major requires 33 credit hours of english coursework minus gen-eds. </p>
<p>A major in electrical engineering requires 101 hours of technical coursework. I calculated this by adding up the credit hours in the recommended sequence and subtracting the hours of the non-technical requirements.</p>
<p>If you add in ~12 hours for foreign language requirements and even ~12 more for various extra core gened requirements that English majors have and Engineering majors do not, we’ll say that the English major requires an effective 57 hours of credits. I’ll even subtract 20 credit hours from the electrical engineering students’ coursework–perhaps not all of the courses in the reccomended sequence were required (although I doubt it). </p>
<p>We are comparing 57 to 81 credit hours. I’m being generous here, and it’s still a substantial difference.</p>
<p>Oh right sorry. I was thinking about my own numbers and I’m double majoring so yeah. Totally off. xD</p>
<p>i also plan to double major, but it’s to have a more impressive app for med school. but i don’t know if it’s worth it, because it might mean another year’s worth of loans. i do plan to apply to as many scholarships as i can and take summer classes.</p>
<p>i know the double won’t hundred percent guarantee that i’ll be accepted, but i want to know if it’s worth all the loans.</p>
<p>Yeah I was looking at required credits to major in economics and international studies/ relations and both combine were in the range of 65-85 ( not including similar classes, etc…). Do anyone know the average amount of credits plan to take overall for their undergraduate?</p>