<p>Does anybody know where i can find rankings on Majors due to the difficulty in them. Such as the hardest and most difficult majors will be first.</p>
<p>Depends on the person...</p>
<p>typically Engineering majors have lower GPA's than everyone else.</p>
<p>It also depends on the school.</p>
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typically Engineering majors have lower GPA's than everyone else.
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<p>Got some evidence to back that up? And a lower GPA does usually mean that the major was hard for the person. Perhaps they just don't care about school or something to that effect.</p>
<p>The difficulty of the major not only depends on the college/university but also on the student. There are so many factors that go into how difficult or simplistic a student views their mjor as being...(i.e. how well the students method of learning works with the methods of teaching utilized by professors).</p>
<p>I will say this, while I was obaining my B.A. I did notice that the classes I was taking for my major and minor seemed to come easier than the "general studies" courses that had to be taken. Of course, that may have been because of the fact that so much of the information being studied in the major courses blended together and made things that had been taught in prior courses make even more sense.</p>
<p>Anyway, I don't believe you will ever be able to find an unbiased ranking of Hardest Majors anywhere.</p>
<p>Adoncard, the curves in engineering classes are always much lower than in humanities classes, even in the same school. Many humanities classes are curved to a b+ or a b...engineeering classes are b- to a c. trust me, it's not because we don't care about school. Google 'average engineering gpa'...you'll find MORE than enough evidence. Also, check out the premed forum here and you'll see engineering students griping about how medical schools don't take their harder grading scales into account.</p>
<p>In addition, getting INTO engineering is usually [not always, depends on the school] more competitive than getting into the humanities, so that makes getting the top grades even more difficult, thus depressing an individual's gpa further.</p>
<p>Now as a disclaimer, this post isnt meant to comment on the difficulty of a humanities major. It's simply to compare the curves.</p>
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Got some evidence to back that up? And a lower GPA does usually mean that the major was hard for the person. Perhaps they just don't care about school or something to that effect.
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<p>I didn't say just one person did I? I said -majors-, as in plural. Read on the other boards specific to post-undergraduate schools, things like law school. There's post after post that affirms the fact that engineers generally have a harder time because their GPA is low.</p>
<p>i mean like more in general.</p>
<p>Like is engineering harder than an english and is physics harder than an english.</p>
<p>Im am asking because this idiot at my school thinks that engineering is one of the easiest majors to graduate from and thatanything mdeical related is generaly harder, such as a pre-med student who is doing pre-med with a very easy major.</p>
<p>kinda hard to prove it to him, because he generally thinks that his pharmd program which he is only a freshman in, is supirior to all others. while i am able to do his chem and cell bio work for him pretty much, but when i show him somthing from lets say a micrioprocessor lab or lets say from my circuits class he has zero clue, and then just says this stuff is irrelevant.</p>
<p>eh, dont bother with him. if he gets the short end of the curve in a math class filled with engineers...well...;)</p>
<p>The toughest is joint Honors math-physics... well, at least that's a pretty freakishly tough program to finish. But a lot of majors can be made almost arbitrarily as tough (and sometimes as easy) as one wants, by picking the most (or least) challenging courses. And the smartest kids who have the desire to can try to pack as much courses/programs into their degree(s) as possible (I know at least 2 people who finished with the equivalent three full programs in 4/5 years, taking sometimes 8-9 courses a semester, and not the easy ones, most sane people don't do that though).</p>
<p>Biomedical engineering...</p>
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the curves in engineering classes are always much lower than in humanities classes, even in the same school. Many humanities classes are curved to a b+ or a b...engineeering classes are b- to a c.
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<p>I've taken multiple humanities classes that were curved to a B- or lower, and class averages of 70 with no curves.</p>
<p>True, not all humanities classes are curved to the b+/b area, but in general for us schools, it seems to be the case. WM is an exception, as I'm sure a number of other schools are.</p>
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<p>I think Philosophy is the hardest. It makes my brain hurt. :(</p>
<p>Biomed. I am in it, it's so rediculously and unecessarily hard. Homework for my bme class this semester barely counts for our course grade, but takes 1 week to do, working about 3-4 hours a day. And even then you come to find out you made little mistakes here and there and it is wrong. There are tons of times when no matter how much you study you will not do well. And curves don't usually help much. Engineering workloads are REALLY intense. Most people I know of do very intense amounts of work and have little sleep. Other majors think they have it hard, but they don't sit up late every night of the week doing calc/physics/chem/ and bio all combined into one problem.</p>
<p>i think it depends on the person. And on the classes. There are math wizzes out there who couldnt give a public speech to save their lives.</p>
<p>It also depends on the teacher. I'm in a law class that is among one of the hardest and most demanding courses at Cornell (that's alot to say in itself). The complex analogies that the teacher looks to extract from us is incredibly difficult. It takes a sort of tacit knowledge to work his problems not just pure memorization. The average grade on the nightly homeworks (which usually take 2-3 hours to complete) is a C-.</p>
<p>I'd say anything heavy in math would be among the toughest: Physics, Engineering, Economics.</p>
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I'd say anything heavy in math would be among the toughest: Physics, Engineering, Economics.
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<p>The heaviest math you'll see is, obviously, in math (it's an arbitrarily tough major, but not an arbitrarily easy one).</p>
<p>Okay, well someone should stand up for the humanities majors out there.... In our defense, the reading loads of English courses are no walk in the park--I'm taking two English classes and a history class this semester in addition to two others. I have to read 7 books for history, 8 books (plus novella-length essays and poetry) for one English class, and 13 books for the other. I have 2 papers, 3 papers, and 1 paper (with extra books to serve as secondary sources). This amounts to something around 750-1000 pages a week plus papers for only three classes of my five classes.</p>
<p>I'm not challenging math or engineering majors to a duel over courseloads, but I'm just saying don't dismiss English as a major for those who couldn't cut it as a biomedical engineer.</p>