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<p>Well, there’s a difference between a major that is ‘easy’ and one that is ‘easier’, and I think there is little dispute, even amongst bio superstars such as mollieb, that bio is indeed one of the easier majors at MIT, relative to the other majors. Note, that’s substantially different from being ‘easy’, for no major at MIT (heck, not even Sloan management) could be said to be ‘easy’. But if you truly believe that biology truly is comparable to engineering in terms of difficulty, I think you’ll be fighting a lonely battle. Individual classes may be more difficult, one-off semesters may be more difficult, and the proliferation of curve-breaking premeds may make A’s more difficult to obtain, but I doubt that a serious case could be made that biology truly is just as difficult as engineering. You are, however, welcome to try.</p>
<p>But, honestly, who cares? The difficulty of a major has no impact on its worthiness as a course of study or its future as a career. I’ve always held the position that the Sloan management program is perhaps the savviest program that MIT has to offer: a degree that can be earned with relatively less effort that not only carries both the high prestige MIT and Sloan brand names, but can be leveraged to either earn one of the highest starting salaries of any major at MIT - higher than many engineering disciplines - or can be leveraged to earn admission to a PhD program at a business school and a career in business academia, which is not only by far the best paying field within academia, but one of the few that is still expanding. It is far easier to place and be promoted to tenure within business academia than it is in practically any other academic discipline.</p>