<p>Was just wondering what do you guys think are the hardest and easiest majors??? this is my opinion:</p>
<p>Hardest - Engineering</p>
<p>Easiest - English</p>
<p>Your opinions???</p>
<p>Retread thread… “Engineering” isn’t a major.</p>
<p>I think this is so specific to the university and individual that it’s hard to make generalizations. At my own college, I would guess:</p>
<p>Hardest - chemistry, English</p>
<p>Easiest - math</p>
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<p>Find me one person who has graduated with a degree in “Engineering”.</p>
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Engineering majors at Swarthmore graduate with a general Bachelor of Science in Engineering. The department is not large enough to support specialized degrees in mechanical or electrical or ___ engineering.</p>
<p>I think it mostly depends on the person, so people work well with numbers and equations while others are good with writing and reading. I for one am horrible at reading/ reading comprehension (probably ADD or something, but I digress) but math comes easy and natural for me. So a major like engineering is probably easier for me then something that requires a lot of reading such as political science or history.</p>
<p>There are a TON of schools where Engineering is a major.
Another one besides Swarthmore is Harvey Mudd.</p>
<p>That being said, I think this question is quite stupid. “Hard” and “easy” are ridiculously subjective</p>
<p>Agree.</p>
<p>English major would be hard for me (It is my 4th language), whereas math/engineering would be pretty easy.</p>
<p>However, for someone who is more humanities based, it would be definitely different.</p>
<p>Here’s a mind ****er: Calculate the probability that there is an objectively “hardest” and “easiest” major among all colleges. Assume that all colleges in the USA have between 15-200 majors; that all colleges with progressively more majors include all the majors of the colleges with less majors (i.e. the college with 16 majors offers all the majors of the college with 15 majors); that there are 1,488,000 college students; that these students are evenly distributed among 1860 colleges; that there are clusters of 10 colleges offering X number of majors (X is obviously an integer contained within 15 and 200 inclusive); that the correlation among student choices for both “hardest” and “easiest” is .40; and that a particular college student will always pick one of his college’s available majors as “hardest” or “easiest.”</p>
<p>It’s pretty damn low. To put it in perspective, the maximum probability that could result from independent choices would be (if all colleges had the same number of majors):</p>
<p>((1/(15<em>14)^1,488,000)</em>(2 choose 15)</p>
<p>My computer couldn’t handle the calculation. Naturally, the probability is lowered because not all colleges have the same number of majors, but the probability is increased because students don’t make independent and random choices when picking a “hardest” and “easiest” major.</p>
<p>IMO, my question was far more interesting that the OP’s.</p>
<p>^I majored in something too easy to be able to understand what the hell you said.</p>
<p>At Clemson:</p>
<p>Hardest Major - Engineering
Easiest Major - PRTM = Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Management</p>
<p>My question has been updated to included necessary information. I offer my respect to anyone who solves it.</p>
<p>at my college</p>
<p>easiest: art</p>
<p>hardest: nursing</p>
<p>Depends on what you mean by “hardest,” and by “easiest.” BTW, this thread will probably be shut down since it pops up all the time and devolves into a flame war.</p>
<p>If by “hardest” you mean majors that fewer people are capable of completing (with good grades), then I would say that the hard sciences, engineering, some medical disciplines, music, art, and economics are the hardest (although that might depend on the rigor of your school’s econ department, if it’s just B-school-plus, then it can’t be that hard, but if it’s real economics, then it requires learning how to think a certain way and most people aren’t wired to learn it). When I say music and art, I mean actually doing music and art, not studying music history or art theory or whatever.</p>
<p>At the mid-level, we have degrees that not just anybody could complete, but they don’t take the same level of brain-power, problem-solving ability, or special talent that the hardest ones do. These would be soft sciences and medical areas (less challenging medical areas than, say, neurosurgery or immunology, which I’d put in the hardest category).</p>
<p>If by “easiest” you mean majors that anyone can complete, then that’s simple. Most humanities and liberal arts degrees have become so watered down and such a joke from what they were a hundred years ago, just about anybody could get a degree in English or American literature or psychology or philosophy these days. Then we have absurdly easy majors which I know for a fact can be completed by people who took learning disability classes in high school: social work, public administration, early childhood education, education, communications, etc.</p>
<p>Yeah, this assessment will offend some people. Not sure why, but it will. If we’re going purely by the brain-power required to master a particular major (not just muddle through with all Cs) then physics has to be at the top, followed by math and chemistry, then engineering and economics. I’m not necessarily saying that if you’re an engineering major then you’re less intelligent than a physics major, I’m talking about brain-power required. This is based on my own experience with these subjects, and with people who have majored in these subjects and what they have told me.</p>
<p>Wt a way to take over my post justtotalk bt i guess its my fault. I should have stated my question differently. TomServo got what I really wanted to ask though.</p>
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You do know why, don’t pretend otherwise. I would be very upset if I was working hard to obtain a degree in social work and someone came up to me and said “A ■■■■■■ could do this”. If you’re going to call out a major you don’t think is academic or challenging, go ahead. But don’t pretend that you don’t know why someone majoring in one of those fields would get offended.</p>
<p>Sperry, I think the difficulty of a major hugely depends on your strengths and weaknesses. If you’re a good communicator and have strong writing skills, humanities would probably come easier to you. If you’re number oriented, a STEM major might be easier than a a major in English. I don’t think there’s any way to quantify the difficulty of a major, to tell you the truth.</p>
<p>TomServo’s got it right.</p>
<p>hardest major = my major</p>
<p>easiest major = your major</p>
<p>Don’t you just love elitist attitude about how your major is so hard while others have easy majors and they won’t make it in real life except as a McDonalds employee or janitor or <strong>insert position that’s looked down upon</strong></p>