<p>In terms of rigor and time devoted to study, how do these rank from hardest to easiest:</p>
<p>Electrical engineering
Computer science
Pre med
Pre law
Business
Biomedical engineering
Civil engineering
Architecture</p>
<p>Feel free to add more to the list!</p>
<p>Pre med isn't a major...At least at most schools. It's just a set of courses that you have to take to be eligible for med school. Same with pre law.</p>
<p>Well, let's still compare them to the majors then.</p>
<p>Ok, which is worse: pre med or engineering?</p>
<p>I think that pre-med is a track that you can take, its not really a major.</p>
<p>It depends. You have to pick a major with pre med, and depending on your major, how much extra work it'll be will change, thus making the comparison of pre med and engineering hard.</p>
<p>BME for sure. You take the Pre-Med courses + tougher physics, engineering math, etc. >.< AWFUL</p>
<p>It's impossible to rank them on a hard to easy scale. It all depends on the rigor of the program at the particular school and on the skills, interests, and talents of the student in the program. For example, one person who would breeze through a pre-law curriculum (not technically a major), might find architecture impossible and someone else might have the opposite experience.</p>
<p>no such thing as pre-law.
NO pre-requisities. a Pre-Med could EASILY also be a Pre-law, haha. all you have to do is take an LSAT</p>
<p>In my opinion, BME then Electrical Eng'g then Civil Eng'g and Architecture. I'm basing that on the amount of time one would need to study the lessons on a daily basis.</p>
<p>EE? Why is EE so hard?</p>
<p>It's magic thats why.</p>
<p>At my boyfriend's engineering school, the civil engineering degree is looked down upon as "easy" engineering. Then again, it's still engineering... which makes it considerably harder than the business major option.</p>
<p>I go to Georgia Tech. </p>
<p>Here the engineering majors are ranked from aerospace, biomedical and chemical engineering as being the hardest to industrial engineering being called "imaginary" engineering. In addition, Liberal Arts majors and Management majors are looked down upon by the engineering majors as being of lower intelligence.</p>
<p>Computer Science majors spend all their time writing code and their workload is quite rigorous and time-consuming, same with architecture as they spend almost all of their time in studio.</p>
<p>To be honest with you though, if you're majoring in something you like and have an intrinsic motivation to learn more about...none of those majors will be too hard or challenging to handle.</p>
<p>Hope this helps. :D</p>
<p>Most challenging would be Electrical and Computer Engineering. Most time consuming would be either Electrical and Computer Engineering because of the sophisticated problem sets or Mechanical because of hands-on projects. Personally, I think biomed and software are the easiest because they are least math-intensive, although it depends on the specialty within biomedical. Each of the engineering fields is rigorous and demanding relative to other majors.</p>
<p>Pre-med can major in anything. Comp sci can be demanding, especially certain courses. Business is easy. Social Sciences/prelaw is easy.</p>
<p>Architecture requires certain talents.</p>
<p>Does business include finance?</p>
<p>Biomedical engineering at JHU, Duke, and WashU as far as I know of based on friends who are BME majors there are by far the hardest majors on campus.</p>
<p>Hardest ive heard is EE... which is insane. Followed by BME.</p>
<p>Why the hell do I want to do BME or ChemE? Aargh. Oh well. I'm sure I'll have lots of...fun.</p>
<p>Really depends on which universities you are talking about. like I said, BME is the hardest at JHU, WashU, and Duke... may vary institution to institution... etc...</p>
<p>I know Harvard is reducing the core requirements for astrophysics and classics in order to attract more ppl to the major. Instead of takign 16 core classes, they take 12 instead... so it varies school to school.</p>