Hardest Major

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<p>I would say pre-med, engineering and architecture</p>

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<p>I was randomly going through this thread as well as the similar one:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/engineering-majors/43510-what-hardest-majors.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/engineering-majors/43510-what-hardest-majors.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>and I must say I disagree with nearly everybody’s rankings.</p>

<p>Having been exposed to a lot of work in various majors, this is how I would rate the order of difficulty:</p>

<p>Pre-AA/AS (lower-division):</p>

<p>(1) Mechanical engineering
(2) Chemical Engineering
(3) Physics
(4) Computer Engineering
(5) Civil Engineering
(6) Mathematics
(7) Chemistry
(8) Statistics</p>

<p>Post-AA/AS (upper-division):</p>

<p>(1) Mathematics
(2) Physics
(3) Statistics
(4) Engineering (all types)
(5) Computer Science
(6) Chemistry
(7) Economics
(8) Philosophy</p>

<p>As far as amount of time required, however, computer science and computer engineering would be at the top of the list. All that said, I am not sure on how to break down the engineering for upper-division.</p>

<p>Of course these lists are subjective (and may be slightly different if I were going to a different school) and not comprehensive, but anybody who places math below engineering is dead wrong in my opinion, at least past the lower-division level. After taking a course in analysis, tell me I’m wrong.</p>

<p>// Sources //

  • Myself
  • Cal friends who dual major or have taken courses in various disciplines</p>