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My second thought is that the only way to specifically answer your question is to have done both, which presumably none of us has done, so I don't think you're going to be able to get an actual answer. It shall remain a mystery. Pretty much, neither is easy.
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<p>Well, I don't think this is necessarily such a problem. After all, you can in principle compare two programs without having tried both. For example, I don't think anybody would seriously dispute that MIT EE is harder than, say, the 'jock majors' at the championship-contending Division 1 schools where the football players tend to hang out, even though practically nobody has ever done both. </p>
<p>Consider what Jim Harbaugh, former Michigan quarterback, said below. I think we can all agree that MIT EE is harder than the 'jock majors' at Michigan, even though few if any people have ever done both. Furthermore, Michigan is actually a pretty good school as far as championship-contending schools go, so you can imagine what happens with the players at places like, say, LSU or Florida State. The movie Forrest Gump relies on the sad truth that a guy who is on the border of mental retardation can nevertheless get a degree (from the University of Alabama) just because he can play football. Heck, in real life, NFL Pro-Bowl player Dexter Manley played 4 years at Oklahoma State before later on revealing that he didn't even know how to read. </p>
<p>*“Michigan is a good school and I got a good education there,” he said, “but the athletic department has ways to get borderline guys in and, when they’re in, they steer them to courses in sports communications. They’re adulated when they’re playing, but when they get out, the people who adulated them won’t hire them.” *</p>
<p>Dickey:</a> Harbaugh can resurrect the Cardinal - Examiner.com</p>
<p>*But here's what nobody is discussing: whether Harbaugh spoke the truth when he called out Michigan for admitting "borderline guys" and for steering athletes toward softer majors than the general student population.</p>
<p>All it takes to see that is a scan of the 2007 Michigan media guide. Only 30 players have listed majors, and 19 of them are pursuing degrees in something called "general studies." That's 20 percent of the team, and 63 percent of the players who have declared a major.</p>
<p>Yet a university spokesman said this week that less than 1 percent of the undergraduate student body is in the general studies degree program. The spokesman said there are fewer than 200 general studies students out of an undergrad population of nearly 25,000.</p>
<p>And that's not all. The other declared degree programs on the football team are: movement science (three players); sports management and communications (two); economics (two); P.E. (one); psychology (one); English (one); and American culture (one). There appears to be one undeclared player enrolled in the business school and another in the college of engineering.</p>
<p>Only one junior has declared a major, according to the guide (in movement science). In 18 years of covering college athletics, I've never seen virtually an entire junior class without a major.*</p>
<p>ESPN</a> - Numbers the major point in Harbaugh-Michigan crossfire - Columnist</p>