<p>Revised List:</p>
<p>Easiest:
Industrial
Civil
Environmental</p>
<p>Medium:
Fire Protection
Material Sciences
Biomedical
Mechanical</p>
<p>Hardest:
Aerospace
Electrical
Chemical
Computer</p>
<p>Most Accurate List:</p>
<p>Easiest: The ones you are the most interested in.
Hardest: The ones you are the least interested in.</p>
<p>If you’re actually interested in the material, studying will come much more easily and as a result of studying more you will get better grades.</p>
<p>How can you guys say one engineering is “harder” than the other?
Your success in any field will not be determined with how you measure up against an arbitrary standard. Make no mistake: you are competing with your classmates! </p>
<p>In a university environment, average grades will hover in the 3.0 range regardless of your field of study (for the most part).</p>
<p>What makes ChE so difficult?</p>
<p>“wow engineering majors are SO insecure it’s disturbing. it’s not enough to think you’re better than every non-engineering major…”</p>
<p>I’m/we’re secure enough to not attribute insecurity to others. </p>
<p>No one needs to alert me to the hypocrisy I just committed. I know.</p>
<p>It also depends on the school.</p>
<p>ChemE is so hard because not only do you have to take general chem but organic(which is a nightmare) and Physical Chem. All of this on top of thermo,fluid,transport phenomona, kenetics and so forth. It’s so much stuff to learn and when I saw what my roommates went through versus me I was glad I didn’t do it.</p>
<p>However industrial engineering is cake and my roommate all way did better than any of us.</p>
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<p>Can we just copypasta this into any “which engineering major is the hardest?” threads from now on?</p>
<p>We can still talk about ice cream of course…</p>
<p>^ no because then you’ll have kids thinking that Environmental Engineering is just as challenging as Chemical Engineering.</p>
<p>^ for some it would be.</p>
<p>^ on avg it shouldn’t be.</p>
<p>What about Computer Science?</p>
<p>You don’t choose your major based on how easy or hard it is on average for the rest of the population. You choose it based on what kind of job YOU want.</p>
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<p>and who said or implied that you do?</p>
<p>If someone is double majoring in both Environmental and Electrical Engineering, I doubt you’d find someone that said they were of the same difficulty.</p>
<p>Computer science isn’t engineering, for the most part. But if you wished to include that in the discussion, I say it’s pretty difficult to a lot of people. A lot of engineers in our schools never liked computer science courses.
Too much thinking, and too much theories and math behind it.</p>
<p>@ vblick
Why is Environmental easy? Is that your personal experience? If someone is double major in both engineering disciplines, I’d say they are both difficult since you are doing two things at a time, just like computer engineering.</p>
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<p>Are you talking about Graduate level? Undergraduate engineering majors who take CS classes don’t get into the the math and theory part of the CS degree.</p>
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You’re jumping the gun. I didn’t say “easy.”</p>
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I’m not discussing the impacts of time involved with double majoring, simply the avg level of difficulty if someone is equally interested in both subjects. I bring this up because every time this topic appears, I read the vanilla “well just because it’s hard for you doesn’t mean it’s hard for someone else” comments. Getting a degree in Theology would be hard for me - not because i couldn’t follow if I applied myself, but because I wouldn’t be interested to follow. Does that mean it’s fundamentally a harder degree to get than an engineering degree - something i was interested in? No. I think you can qualify one degree as being less or more difficult than another (putting aside any affection or hatred you have towards it).</p>
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<p>Agreed. I would put Biomedical, Bioengineering, and Aerospace somewhere between medium and hardest though. Electrical harder than chemical.</p>
<p>Engineering is hard, no matter which type. The fact that you guys made a list about them is just degrading towards those who have really worked hard to earn a very difficult skill. I know a lot of industrial engineers who would find your posts very offensive.</p>
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<p>The IE’s would not be offended, they would give these ChemE’s, EE’s and CS students some books in Nonlinear Optimization and laugh at them.</p>
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<p>I think this list would be much more accurately titled:
“Easiest engineering major to get a girlfriend”</p>