<p>Which is the most difficult and why?
Which is the easiest?</p>
<p>It all depends on interest and aptitude. Electrical tends to be difficult because it has more math and some people struggle with this. Others like the program because of it.</p>
<p>Typically, it's said that EE/ChemE are the most difficult and Civil/Industrial are the least difficult.</p>
<p>I suggest you delete this thread. This will instantly blow up into a 100+ page shitstorm. lil_killer provided the link of one such shitstorm. </p>
<p>heres a play by play if youd like:</p>
<p>The thread begins simply enough, with the EE fanboys declaring their love for EE. then everyone starts throwing in their own major. Then people start backing chemE, because theyre tired of EE always winning. Then people get bored and start saying which are the easiest majors. CivE and Industrial get mentioned, and Aibarr makes an appearance with a story of how her physicist friend said the civil stuff looked hard. then we get tired of the civ's clans long responses, and the thread dies for awhile. It comes back in full swing as math and physics purists arrive and spout their elitism. Luckily they kill themselves off. Eventually people try to make comprehensive lists, with the top tier as such:</p>
<p>Electrical
theoretical math
<em>list maker's major</em></p>
<p>We all learn a lesson of tolerance from the stupidity of these lists. Most of the stupidity is a result of such posts as:</p>
<p>upper middle tier:
mechanical engineering w/ aerospace concentration</p>
<p>lower middle tier:
mechanical engineering</p>
<p>The thread dies and the villagers rejoice</p>
<p>Can we just quote your post for ten pages instead?</p>
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Then people get bored and start saying which are the easiest majors. CivE and Industrial get mentioned, and Aibarr makes an appearance with a story of how her physicist friend said the civil stuff looked hard.
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<p>I'm just going to quote this part from now on. It'll save me some carpal tunnel points.</p>
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<p>even art history vs engineering thread got way out of hand ** IN ENGINEERING THREAD ** !!!</p>
<p>these threads are impossible to answer for us engineers :)</p>
<p>oldelecdude funny post</p>
<p>Rofl... Seems like everybody wants their major to be the hardest</p>
<p>But it's not like this is an unsolvable problem. Short of anecdotal experience (I know a few people who changed from ChemE to MechE because for them ChemE was harder), there is an objective way to determine the hardest major. </p>
<p>Whichever major has the lowest college GPA to freshman SAT score is the hardest. Now where I could find those stats, I don't know.</p>
<p>I'm a civil engineer, and proud to say that Civil IS the easiest major... LOL...
The upside is, however, least chance for CE field to be outsourced compared to EE or ME or ChE...</p>
<p>i'd say the both of what you said are upsides actually... doing the hard major is definitely the downside of doing eng.</p>
<p>you will realize there is no payback for doing hard majors upon graduation as relative to "easy-major" kids who succesfully gets into goldman sachs, harvard law, what-not...(im talking about my friends actually)</p>
<p>The payback is in job satisfaction. Whenever I'm ready to shoot myself because I'm getting crushed in my grad physics class I just call up my brother and ask him about the classes he's taking in law school. No matter how hard the material I'm doing is, at least it's interesting.</p>
<p>Is there any reason why you couldn't get into Harvard law of Goldman Sachs from an engineering major? If anything they'd respect how hard the work was and interpret your GPA accordingly.</p>
<p>Goldman Sachs, the one major financial powerhouse that has been better off than most in this subprime mess, looks for brilliant people, regardless of major and/or GPA. Frankly, many successful traders on Wall St. never even received a college degree. Bear in mind that Goldman Sachs recruits the brightest engineers for its technology division, as well.</p>
<p>I have a couple of friends who got into Goldman Sachs while majoring in engineering. They were EEs and it was for the Technology side of it, not the IBD, which is still quite impressive. </p>
<p>While financial firms do look for engineers in recruiting, it is hard to market yourself during the interview and convince them that you want a complete career change.</p>
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<p>of course you can.</p>
<p>the point was, there is no inherent payback of doing hard majors as compared to easy majors. when you are in highscool, you take hardest APs possible in hope of earning some college credits and boosting up your college apps. so there was inherent payback of doing the hardest courses possible. and besides, there was no concept of majors in hs.</p>
<p>but speaking of college majors, 4.0 GPA from an easiest-major-possible is still a 4.0, and 3.0 GPA from an hardest-major-possible is still a 3.0 GPA. if you think Finance is actually much easier than Engineering, there's no inherent payback associated with sticking with hard majors. well, that's if you are not looking into getting into engineering industry.</p>
<p>If you want to build a bridge, civic.
If you want to build a computer,electrical.
...etc.</p>