<p>many people think econ is easy, but many of my friends at IVY who study econ think econ is not that "easy."</p>
<p>so comparing with ivy engineering majors with ivy (harvard) econ, on a level of 1-10, how hard is econ? i would say engineering is at a level 8 difficulty, with 10 being the most difficult?</p>
<p>what about econ at ivy?</p>
<p>Ivy league schools are not known for their engineering, except Cornell. But I still think engineering anywhere is generally more rigorous than anything in the arts/sciences school.</p>
<p>Econ is not that easy because it has become fairly competitive nowadays since there are many people taking it. It is still probably easier than engineering though.</p>
<p>For example, at Penn, it takes 40-42 credit units for engineering, compared to 32-36 for all Arts and Sciences Majors (including econ). So the number of courses you need to take speaks for itself. Harvard, Penn, Columbia, Princeton all have standard engineering programs, so it should be the same case in those schools. Not sure about Dartmouth and Brown, however.</p>
<p>Aurelius has it. I'd assume the hardest econ classes are comparable to the hardest Engineering classes. However, the workload is not comparable once the total unit load has been factored in.</p>
<p>the volume of work needed to complete each class is not the same.</p>
<p>Also likely true, I was just giving the most simplified assumption.</p>
<p>Not really going to be that hard. Relatively cake.</p>
<p>This is my personal opinion, but I think the hardest economics courses are probably harder than the hardest engineering classes. But not many people actually take those heavy-theory economics courses so the general economics major probably works less than the average engineering major. </p>
<p>However, engineering is partly just hard because you need to take a lot of classes. I didn't find any of my engineering courses to be conceptually THAT difficult, as opposed to some theoretical economics courses I took. Also, at certain top ivies you can choose to do a mathematical track economics major which overlaps a lot with the financial engineering curriculum.</p>