<p>I was wondering if you college attendees could list what you think are the most difficult majors (i.e. most work) and which are the easiest (least amount of work/studying). I am planning on majoring in chemistry and i just wanted to see where that major stood on the difficulty scale (so as to prepare myself for next year...maybe) thanks much!</p>
<p>I think the hard majors would be in the sciences and math. And, from my own experiences, Classics would also be hard. Latin and Greek are not comparable with Spanish and French difficulty-wise . . . .</p>
<p>As for easy majors, psyc is notorious.</p>
<p>Most college majors can be made arbitrarily hard by picking the most challenging courses, and some can be made arbitrarily easy by picking bird courses. Chemistry is in the sciences so it's not the kind to be arbitrarily easy, but I wouldn't say it's much harder or easier than other science majors. Now if you really want to know how difficult each major is, you'll have to look up enrollment vs graduation statistics. The bigger the (relative) drop from number of enrolled to number who graduated, the harder the major (of course, this remains an oversimplification and an imperfect indicator).</p>
<p>I hear finance is pretty hard too...</p>
<p>difficulty of a major will vary from person to person!</p>
<p>To say that a pre med major would cruise through a government or philosophy major is just as wrong as saying a government or philosophy major would cruise through pre med. Usually, people will pick something they're fairly good at.</p>
<p>At my school, human sciences (aka: Home Economics) is THE easy major. Communication is also considered to be pretty easy.</p>
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<p>considering that it's Accounting's ugly step-sister, it's semi-hard...accounting is a tad harder IMO. </p>
<p>After taking a basic accounting class, I aced a junior level finance class.</p>
<p>Math, science, and engineering are hard. Humanities and social sciences are easy. That's all you need to know.</p>
<p>I would say engineering and science (esp. Physics) are more difficult, while majors like film studies and history are on the easy side.</p>
<p>humanities are known to be notoriously easy. Premed too hard? switch to psych and cruise on by. Business majors are also known to be easy. Generally, anything having to do with math and science is hard. Engineering is killer, and premed aint a walk in the park no matter what school you go to.</p>
<p>Art History classes can be really hard if you are a person that is more geared for math and science...tons of memorization!!</p>
<p>On the other hand, music at a good school rivals any of the science majors, so saying that the sciences are the hardest is also a very large generalization.
Also, while I would certainly agree that Comm is notorious for being an "easy major," what it teaches carries over most anywhere. If I hadn't already picked my 2nd major, Comm actually would be quite tempting (except I think it's still quite a bit bigger than Psych--and most single-major music majors don't get out in 4 yrs, much less dbl-major with a dbl music emphasis). So really, as was said before, you can make anything difficult.
Also, a HUGE part of college learning occurs OUTSIDE the classroom!
For me, the classroom has been a great learning experience (I should hope so... I spend about 30+ hrs in it/wk), but in some ways I think I have learned more from other organizations and depts I work with on campus.</p>
<p>Hee hee yay for future chem majors. I am a chemistry major, and most of the responses I get from people when I tell them this are: "Wow, you must be smart." "OMG!!!" "Oh....I hate chemistry." or a blank stare and "......why?!" Someone once even told me, after giving me a look of utter shock, "God bless your soul."</p>
<p>All the upperclassmen I know say once you get past organic and p chem it isn't so bad......</p>
<p>um..... i would think music takes more TALENT than intellect... I have a friend that's a natural pianist, barely took any lessons, gets paid to play in clubs etc... He's attending a really good music school with a scholarship, Berklee i believe. However he's terrible in academics, graduated with like a 2.6, can barely do math etc... What i'm trying to say is music is one of those things your born with. He's extremely talented, while i can't carry a tune.</p>
<p>big ups to your pianist friend. who cares if that kid isn't good at academics? he's getting paid to perform. (getting regular gigs within the fine arts isn't an easy thing to do.)</p>
<p>for fine arts majors, there's a certain degree of natural aptitude involved, but it can only carry you so far - you have to work hard and practice a lot, as well as study history and theory. it makes you that much better of an artist or musican or whatever.</p>
<p>the "hard" majors are whatever you're not good at - which is different for everyone. I wouldn't automatically write off communications as being cake - seriously, I would be hating life in a public speaking course, and so would a lot of others :P</p>
<p>...business seems to be the one major that people pursue just for getting a degree, though. even if it sucks, it's doable, and it guarantees some sort of return.</p>
<p>at my college for hard major's i'd say... mechanical engineering, and business... those two require the most work... after that i'd say the sciences... graphic design requires a lot of work as well..</p>
<p>it totally depends on the way your own brain works. i have a friend who is a complete science and math whiz (med school) but struggles with social sciences (cant write an essay).</p>
<p>Family Resource Management is the major that all football players take at Ohio State.</p>
<p>I also find these statements too simplistic. I have a LD daughter. She flies ahead in math and does well in science. English Lierature and history are not much different than pulling teeth!</p>