<p>I am talking about your sciences, your Biological, Mathematical, and Physical Sciences degrees. Not liberal arts degree, when I say Engineering is easier. This is only at the graduate level that engineering is no longer one of the most difficult majors. Althought it is still very difficult, almost any graduate degree is very difficult to do.</p>
<p>Why would science major be harder?</p>
<p>Because they tend to have to more classes, and their research tends to be more difficult. It takes more time to complease one of those Ph.Ds than it does for Engineering.</p>
<p>Engi is much harder than the science(UG and Grad School)....Take CS/Comp Engi for example...therez nothing like sitting in front of the computer all day and night hammering the hell out of your brain working on a single computer program/project...A small error in your code can leave you miserable. Trust me....nothing compares to this. For grad school, it only gets harder !</p>
<p>indie no it isn't much harder at the graduate school, it is much easier. The sciences have it much much harder at the graduate school, more classes and a more difficult dissertation. Engineers have it semi easy at the graduate level</p>
<p>For example to get a Ph.D in Statistics usually requires around 30%-50% more classes than a Ph.D in any Engineering field, and I have seen some top schools which require almost twice as many classes. The same is true for a Ph.D in Mathematics.</p>
<p>Also CS isn't that hard either, it is easier than many of the sciences even at the UG level.</p>
<p>I still don't agree with you VTBoy...For undergrad, I took tons of CS classes like C, C++, Java, Assembly, Data Struc, Discrete Structures etc...On the other hand, I completed the physics series, few chem classes, and passed the AP Bio exam. In the science classes, if you understand the fundamental concepts you have a good shot at a problem. For biology, it is all about information that you need to memorize. In programming, even when you understand how things work (like pointers etc) it is still difficult to come up with an "efficient" algorithm to solve the problem. You will understand this only when you are exposed (3+yrs) to both the fields. Beware, one or two introductory programming classes seem easy. </p>
<p>For grad school, the amount of classes should say nothing about the difficulty of the classes. Since I have not done my grad school yet...I think i should not comment on it.</p>
<p>One more thing i want to add...For my undergrad CS in UCLA...I have only 1-3 classes each qtr...Does that mean it is easy? no way. For example, the compiler construction class will require me to create my own parser and compiler ! which will take me countless brain-damaging 'out-of-class' hours in the comp lab. In conclusion, the amount of classes does not matter to a certain degree.</p>
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That is a tough question to answer. There may be stats which show particular majors have higher or lower GPAs. Even with that info I'd be hesitent to draw conclusions ... maybe some majors draw kids who are striving for the highest grades possible (Bio majors, many of whom are pre-Med or pre-Vet) while other majors grades are not as important for the next step. In addition, there is a HUGE personal aspect to that equation. As a math/engineering type however "easier" majors like Government looked to me while in school if <em>I</em> had majored in Government my grades probably would have been much lower ... because I would have been using my weaker skills (class participation and writing). </p>
<p>If the question was asked trying to help decide in which field you should answer I think the inquiry is backwards ... a good GPA will follow your talents and passion (however the major is considered in an abstract sence).</p>
<p>Indie well then we disagree, but I too have taken a few CS classes lower division and upper division and found them relativily easy. Also even in the sciences "memorizing" stuff isn't good enough, even if you have a good understanding of a topic it can takes an extreamly long time to find a model and equation which is efficient. For example in statistics, you have to figure out how to effieciently come up with a result because as permiters increase linearly, the complexity of models increase exponentially. This is just one example.</p>
<p>At the graduate level Engineers tend to have high GPAs and take shorter time to graduate than science majors.</p>
<p>but most science guys tend to get PhD's while most engineers usually stop at MS, just a thought.</p>
<p>About the original question, I'll let you'll know in 4 yrs :D</p>