<p>I have heard EE is the most difficult Engineering major. However, if those people dropped out by the end of the first semester, they have barely touched the lower division requirements that all branches of engineering have to go through (Calculus 1, Chemistry, etc) . The EE stuff doesn’t happen until junior year, unless you come in with lots of AP credits.</p>
<p>Are you serious? Music and Fine Arts? Just look at the average GPA for such majors and you will see that most people who choose these majors switched into them because they couldn’t make it in the sciences/math courses.</p>
<p>what is the ice cream response?</p>
<p>whenever someone asks this question at the engineering forums the answers tend to be ice cream flavors (as to basically say it varies from one person to another so it’s as meaningless as asking what is the tastiest ice cream flavor)</p>
<p>oh I see. Yes I think that the ice cream response applies only to the Engineering forums, because </p>
<p>1). They are all Engineering. So it’s more like comparing apples to apples. Versus comparing the difficulty of Computer Science to Mechanical Engineering or even computer engineering would be like comparing oranges to apples.</p>
<p>2). Every branch of Engineering is known to be very difficult. </p>
<p>3).They all have to take all the same hardcore lower division courses.</p>
<p>I vote for math. Just reading the Wikipedia page for real analysis makes me want to puke.</p>
<p>(1) Physics, (2) Biochemistry, (3) Engineering (various, depending on the college), (4) Math, (5) Economics</p>
<p>Yay for 14 month bumps. Like this topic hasn’t been discussed 100 times on CC already</p>
<p>I heard neuroscience can be hard</p>
<p>There is no major that everyone is going to agree is the most difficult because people have different aptitudes and interests. If someone has very strong quantitative abilities and a strong interest in physical sciences they will find Physics to be a lot of work but definitely manageable. If they had an 700+ on the Math SAT Physics would be a good choice but they only had a 450 on the Verbal, History would be mighty challenging. A person with a 700+ in the Verbal but less than 600 on the Math, History would be a much better choice than Physics.</p>
<p>I think the most difficult situations are the ones in which someone has a deep interest in a subject that they really do not have an aptitude for and no interest in things they do have an aptitude for. If the student with the 700 in Math but 450 in Verbal has a real passion for History but no interest in science or engineering it is hard to see how they can be both successful and fulfilled. By the same token, the student who has a Verbal of 750 and a Math of 550 but is only interested in Astrophysics will probably not be happy and successful in College. </p>
<p>I did very well in Physics and Astronomy courses but do not see how I could pass a course in Art or Music since I have no artistic ability or musical talent. Only certain people can succeed in these majors since study and practice is unlikely to turn someone who was not born with talent into a great artist or musician.</p>
<p>Physics is in my top-5.</p>
<p>ChemE is considered to be the hardest major at my school.</p>
<p>Aerospace Engineering is by far one of the most difficult, if not the most difficult, because ‘rocket science’ is not a subject anyone could breeze through.</p>
<p>I heard Math is the hardest, but I don’t see people I know dropping out, maybe they are naturally smart?</p>
<p>Math has a reputation of being hard, whether that’s the case or not. It’s certainly not easy. Most people I know who are math majors knew they had a knack for it from the start, and they really enjoy it. People don’t seem to choose to be math majors because they think it will have great job prospects, like engineering (although math majors generally do have good job prospects).</p>
<p>Math is often considered intellectually difficult (particularly when one gets to upper division proof-oriented courses), but it is not necessarily time consuming in the way that lab-heavy majors can be (labs tend to be time hogs, even if they are not difficult).</p>
<p>Probably goes unnoticed because very few universities offer it, but I’m an optical engineering and math double major, and optical engineering is incredibly difficult, the math in those classes makes my actual math classes seem like jokes. But like other people said, electrical and chemical are both very difficult</p>
<p>Chemistry and chemistry based majors, physics, engineer,psychology, actually most science degrees are hard. what makes them hard is that you will have to get a graduate degreee eventually</p>
<p>Chemistry,chemical engineering,astrophysics,accounting,economics/philosophy.</p>
<p>My boyfriend is an EE, he says most people drop because they aren’t willing to do all the math. He failed Calc I the first time, but stuck with it and has passed all his other classes. ChemE, is kind of the worst of both worlds since they have to do Calculus and Physics, and in addition to that have to do Organic Chem. If you want to do engineering, you really just have to stick with it, people drop out because they aren’t willing to put in all the work. </p>