<p>mfrancis, I find that reasoning pretty contrived. You might want to shine while at college to get a job in your preferred field; do you think that’s not true of scientists? How many tenure-track physics positions do you think there are? Not that many.</p>
<p>The reason many quantitative majors have an easier time with jobs is that their way of thinking (very analytical and well-founded on the scientific problem solving process) is very applicable to lots of fields. The fact that people have realized that and so hire lots of scientific types doesn’t make science majors easier, just better career feeders.</p>
<p>Anyways, as an anecdotal type of thing - I’ve never heard a sciency-type major say that humanities and social sciences were as a group harder; I’ve heard lots of humanities and social sciences types say that about science types. I’ve also essentially never met a humanities/SS major that could switch to, say, electrical engineering and do really well - I’ve met lots of quantitative majors who could do the opposite.</p>
<p>Art and related things is a bit of a different beast, and I’m not sure how to slot it in. In terms of workload and mental requirements, is it the hardest? Certainly not. In terms of how many people can be very good at it? Probably about as bad as math.</p>