<p>I was just wondering, which is the hardest and which is the easiest major overall at UF? </p>
<p>I have been reading some posts, and it seems like people are acting like engineering is the hardest major (not that I am saying that it is or isn't). Aren't the pre-med majors supposed to be the hardest? Which is the hardest and which is the easiest pre-med type major at UF?</p>
<p>premed is not the hardest…if you must consider chem/bio to be hard then chemical engineering is even harder…and it can also be considered a pre-med major…in fact all are</p>
<p>but yea, i would say nuclear or chemical engineering is most difficult.</p>
<p>Of pre-med students (my opinion, but generally a consensus among most):</p>
<p>Easy: anthro, psych, nutrition, socio, health sciences, family w/e</p>
<p>Med: bio, microbio, zoology, econo</p>
<p>med hard: chem, MSE, bio-eng, </p>
<p>physics (I dont know were to put this, sorry)
mech-e (somewhere between)</p>
<p>hard: chem-e, elect-e</p>
<p><strong>english is special, you are either really good at it or think its the most time consuming thing possible</strong>*</p>
<p>Most pre-med are pick easy to mid. Of the the ones the choose engineering they pick MSE or biological engineering. Of course you should picks the major that interest you the most, but also do one you can get a high GPA in. I know some that did engineering because they loved it but ended up with upper 2.0’s, while others were about to get close to a 4.0.</p>
<p>this is so dumb</p>
<p>it’s going to depend on your strengths and weaknesses</p>
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<p>Knew someone would say that. But there are major that are a whole lot less time consuming than others, which is my definition of hard vs. easy.</p>
<p>How time consuming would you say chem-engineering is? Is it still possible to get a 4.0 without having to study like 4hours a night?</p>
<p>I’m not a Chem-Engineering major, but I would say that it would be hard to get a 4.0 in any major if you are only planning on spending 4 hours a night studying.</p>
<p>I dont know how much they study. </p>
<p>But as you can see from their schedule they plan for 9 semesters, plus you have to worry about doing an internship so you can get a job. Most chem-e’s I know did 4.5-5 years ugrad.</p>
<p>Premed is a completely different kind of hard than engineering. Engineering is a major that can be made much easier by being quick at math. I openly admit that engineering wasn’t very hard for me (outside of the few labs; MicroP was 30 hours a week easily) because I happened to be pretty good with algebra and calculus. Pre-med, on the other hand, is a lot of (somewhat easier) work that isn’t really made much easier by higher intelligence.</p>
<p>ASMAJ, I thought BioE was a graduate-only degree at UF?</p>
<p>^Biomedical engineering is grad only. Agricultural and Biological engineering has an undergraduate major.</p>
<p>gthopeful, I had uP with Professor Schwartz and that class EASILY consumed 30-35 hrs a week. The other class that consumed many hours per week was Operating Systems with Professor Chow.</p>
<p>As a rule of thumb, most majors that give you a B.S. are more difficult than those that offer a B.A. (on average) </p>
<p>ie the sociology’s and poli sci’s of the world are going to be less difficult than the biochem or engineering majors. </p>
<p>My major, economics, can serve as a very good example. You can get a B.S. in eco, which requires more intensive math, or a B.A., an arguably lesser degree without the more strenuous math. In my case, am going for the B.S. because it’s needed to do patent law and I don’t want to rule out my ability to do patent law because I skipped out on some relatively basic math. Side note: for economics, the B.S. is offered by the Warrington School of Business Administration and the B.A. is offered by the school of Liberal Arts and Sciences</p>
<p>I am expecting quite the backlash at these comments by thrusting what I believe to be exceptions in my face but by all means. Either way, I think it puts the original poster closer to the desired answer.</p>
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<p>Again, this depends on YOU. Some people can do certain types of work quicker than others. An engineering major who absolutely excels at math/science but stinks at painting and drawing is going to have to divulge much more time making his art up to the standard required by fine arts majors than he would doing the work required by an engineering major.</p>
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<p>What ant said. </p>
<p>However, there are many that think UF has a biomed eng major. I was looking at the sun-sentinel and they has a section of the val/sal of each school in broward/WP/miami-dade and good amount of them said they were going to be biomed eng at UF.</p>