<p>Just curious which engineering major is the easiest generally. Obviously I understand no engineering major is easy and it differs by university, but which major is usually the easiest to maintain a high gpa while including research and internships?</p>
<p>The one that you are most interested in. The reason that answer is so subjective is that without a hint of interest in the subject even the ‘easiest’ major can be hard for someone else. </p>
<p>For instance, I do really really well in things like Calc 1-3, DiffEq, Stats…While I hate any class that requires a lot of papers. I literally take forever writing papers. My wife on the other hand, can blow through a paper like it is nothing, getting an A every time, but she hates, with a passion, Math.</p>
<p>Well I know math and science is my strength and I like it and that’s why I want to go into engineering. But im curious which specific type of engineering is easier because I don’t know which one I want to do yet (except EE, I didn’t like electricity in physics so i won’t like a major specifically on that)</p>
<p>Like I said, and will say again…None are easier than the other. Your interest in the subject is what matters. You need to base it off of what you want to spend the next four years learning about…</p>
<p>Here are a ton of videos explaining the different disciplines: [McCormick</a> Video Gallery | Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science](<a href=“http://video.mccormick.northwestern.edu/]McCormick”>http://video.mccormick.northwestern.edu/)</p>
<p>Ok I will try to analyze each one and see which is best fit thanks!</p>
<p>The argument that if you’re interested in a subject makes it easy is not a good answer. The best answer is to give the major that is generally easiest for everyone. This is unknown because not one person has majored in all engineering majors before.</p>
<p>From what I’ve seen on these forums, people tend to say Civil Engineering is the easiest. You shouldn’t pick a major because it’s easiest. Pick a major that you like no matter how hard or easy it is.</p>
<p>I know but I have a goal of going to med school so a high gpa is necessary. I am doing engineering because I’m not sure if I’ll want to do med school in the future. If I don’t I’ll probably want to do engineering, do already being in the course of engineering i wouldn’t be setback</p>
<p>Do you have to declare a certain one? Allot of schools put you in general engineering for a year. After this you may have a better idea. To echo what everyone else has said, none are easy. The first two years are the ones that seem to get people. At my school the first two years are nearly identical for all engineering majors (give or take one or two classes).</p>
<p>Allot of Bio Engineering majors at my school plan to go to med school. I don’t think it leaves you allot of other career options without a masters though.</p>
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<p>Maybe. But easier does not mean easy. To an extent we all take a breadth of courses in other majors, at least I do (ex. I take 2 Mech/Civil, 1 Materials & 1 Electrical class). I can tell you that if I am uninterested in that majors course material, circuits for example, I have to drag myself through the material. I still do well, but the effort is still noticeable.</p>
<p>Yeah we have to specify a major at USC and right now I’m in the biomedical engineering field. I was thinking about maybe changing to chemical or materials but idk.</p>
<p>Whichever one involves the least math. Hardest would be electrical, computer, mechanical, and chemical. I’d make the argument that “engineering physics” is the hardest of them all, but then I <em>would</em> do that since I’m an eng. phys. major. 
Any major that involves studying (sometimes) counter-intuitive, mathematically-heavy subjects like relativity, electricity and magnetism, quantum mechanics, angular momentum, oscillations and waves, properties of matter and materials, statistics and error analysis, or computer science is a difficult major. Any major that combines them all is the hardest. :-P</p>
<p>I’m going to be very shallow and stereotypical and assume that environmental engineering is the easiest. Although I’ll bet they do a lot more statistics and error analysis stuff in-class then others.</p>
<p>Of the big 4, Civil is probably the easiest(most Civil problems are less complex than Chem/Mech/Elec), and Chemical the hardest(some very complex concepts, you have to do a lot of different things).
I’d suggest against Biomed unless you’re pretty sure you want to do it.</p>
<p>The OP seems to be serious.</p>
<p>I was gonna be an a** and say Laidback Univ offers a B.S in Easy Engineering.</p>
<p>Even Computer Science with the reduced math requirements will require Calculus I, Calculus II, Linear Algebra and Statistics for Engineers/Scientists. At some schools, you MAY can choose a biological science (like Botany) instead of Physics.</p>
<p>The rest of the engineering majors are ALL tough. Hell, some I.E. degrees are basically applied math degrees and there is NOTHING easy about Stochastic topics or Non-Linear Optimization in an I.E. program.</p>
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<p>Exactly. By that very same argument, I could argue that because I have zero interest in the game of tic-tac-toe, I should find that game exceedingly difficult. Yet - not to brag, guys - but I doubt that anybody could beat me in a game of tic-tac-toe. </p>
<p>Regarding how to determine which engineering major is the easiest, one way to answer that question is to consider which engineering major might people still be able to successfully pass - albeit perhaps not with top grades - even with no interest in the major. Another way is to eliminate the converse: which engineering major are students most likely to fail even if they’re highly interested?</p>
<p>Sigh… well at least it’s a break from “which major is hardest?” (the only reasonable answers to which of course being either MY major or Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough).</p>
<p>OP - the question of the “easiest” major is incredibly complex, and even the “average” answer is only useful to you if you ARE the average. Every field has specialities that are relatively hard and others that are relatively easy, and it all influenced by your combination of talents and interest. Interest will not make something easy, but it will make it easier, and conversely DISinterest will make something unbearablly difficult. And talent is key - I had no problems with the concepts and math in EE but my struggles in basic chemistry would have made an attempt at Chemical Engineering a Greek tragedy!</p>
<p>Also, what good does this do you as a backup plan? The “easiest” engineering degrees and specialties rarely pay that well, so picking this as a backup means that your backup is going to be financially weak and potentially miserable as well. If you simply cannot figure out any degree that genuinely interests you as a career backup then take the list of majors, weed out the “I KNOW I don’t want THAT”'s and sort by salary - highest salary wins. You might be miserable but at least you’ll make a good living at it, and that’s a lot better than having a 3.9 GPA in a field and specialty that gets neither respect nor money.</p>
<p>I think you want to go into finance.</p>
<p>Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, or something like that. Sort of not a legit engineering major though.</p>
<p>Domestic engineering.</p>
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<p>So you did these?..</p>
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<p>Not necessarily true, for a student who is excellent at math.</p>