<p>Okay, so I know Princeton review has a list of Students who always study and students that don't, but can someone suggest (either from a study, personal experience, or what you've heard) of which Engineering schools have a huge workload and which do not (which is relative, of course).</p>
<p>This is what I have heard/ read so far:</p>
<p>Stressful-</p>
<p>Cal Tech
MIT
Stanford
UC Berkeley
Harvey Mudd</p>
<p>Thanks guys. :]</p>
<p>I have a friend who is pleasantly satisified with the workload at MIT. Thats about all the help I can give, sorry.</p>
<p>I have a cousin who went to CalTech and he confirms the hard workload.</p>
<p>Less difficult ones? (that is somewhat well known)</p>
<p>at pretty much every school i can think of, the engineering students work their a**es off more than any other major.</p>
<p>however, i do know several slackers/partiers who graduated from Penn State Engineering, so maybe PSU isn’t so tough despite it’s high ranking.</p>
<p>This is absurd, engineering is going to be hard no matter where you go. The fact that you even asked about the first four on that list is amusing, but I don’t know anything about Harvey Mudd.</p>
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<p>Oh so just because engineering is hard everywhere, it’s as equally hard everywhere? What a stupid comment. Yes, Engineering is a difficult major, but there is clearly a huge difference between Caltech engineering and say Iowa State engineering difficulty and workload. Even if the material was the exact same, you would need to work way harder at Caltech because your peers would be smarter and working harder than engineering majors at Iowa State.</p>
<p>^ Thank you.</p>
<p>And I wasn’t asking about the schools listed, I was saying I have heard they are known to be stressful, but anyone is free to add comments on those schools or any others.</p>
<p>It’s hard to compare unless you’ve been to multiple schools. It also depends on the caliber of the student.</p>
<p>Also, I don’t know why Cornell engineering isn’t on that list.</p>
<p>It could be added… it wasn’t a solid list, just what I’ve heard. :]
But some have told me Cornell has a more managable workload.
Of couse, this is all relative.</p>
<p>There’s no way to rank these kinds of things. It’s all personal experience and depends on circumstances.</p>
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<p>False. Exact ratings are obviously impossible, but general groups can be made. You want to tell me that Iowa State engineering can be harder than Caltech engineering based on “personal expeirence” and “circumstances”? Cut the crap.</p>
<p>It’s not really known much outside of CO but School of Mines students that I know study for about 4hrs per day, if that means anything to you?</p>
<p>atomicfusion,</p>
<p>Look at the list he made before calling me out. Do you honestly think there is a big difference between:</p>
<p>Cal Tech
MIT
Stanford
UC Berkeley</p>
<p>The talent level at each for engineering is incredibly high. I said I didn’t know about Harvey Mudd, but seriously. These are all elite schools. Even if there is a very noticable difference, do you know someone who has an undergraduate degree from each that can give us an informed answer?</p>
<p>kind of off topic but I just finished the nightmare semester in my program. Holy **** I didn’t expect that. Just got exams left… I basically did homework straight for 3 months, and I’m doing much worse grade-wise than before (curve is extremely hard now).</p>
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Harvey Mudd has a reputation of being one of the hardest science schools in the US, only six students in the history of the college have gotten a clean 4.0 and it got the highest rate of majors who later studies for a phd in the US.</p>
<p>It is the last place you want to be if you want an easy ride.</p>
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<p>The OP just listed those schools as schools he had previously heard of being very hard. He/she asked for information about the most and difficult schools. Therefore I took your response to mean that there is no significant difference among major engineering programs. If we’re talking about the list he gave, then yes there is no significant difference between those. That would just be the hardest group, but is unrankable.</p>
<p>I don’t think all schools have equal difficulty programs. I was only talking about that list. I guess we are in agreement then…haha</p>