What are the most difficult majors?

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Anonymous wrote:Whatever you are not good at is the hardest major for you. If you’re not good at math, STEM majors would likely be the most difficult for you. If you’re not good at reading, analysis, and writing, majors like English and history might be the most difficult for you.

If your major is *that* difficult, you are likely not in the best major for you.

This isn't true. Not all engineering majors couldn't hack it at English or History.

I vote electrical engineering as one of the hardest. Chemical and petroleum engineering are up there too.

But you're presuming that all English and history majors couldn't hack it as engineers?

DP, but yes. Most people who major in a humanities subject & don’t have a second major could not hack it as an engineering major. Probably couldn’t make it as a Chemistry major either, but could potentially do Biology.

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Anonymous wrote:Whatever you are not good at is the hardest major for you. If you’re not good at math, STEM majors would likely be the most difficult for you. If you’re not good at reading, analysis, and writing, majors like English and history might be the most difficult for you.

If your major is *that* difficult, you are likely not in the best major for you.

This isn't true. Not all engineering majors couldn't hack it at English or History.

I vote electrical engineering as one of the hardest. Chemical and petroleum engineering are up there too.

But you're presuming that all English and history majors couldn't hack it as engineers?

DP, but yes. Most people who major in a humanities subject & don’t have a second major could not hack it as an engineering major. Probably couldn’t make it as a Chemistry major either, but could potentially do Biology.

Forgot to add, people forget that Chemistry & Biology majors have to write lab reports. They can easily do any social science field. Not sure what other science fields do about labs.

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Anonymous wrote:I have a BS in Chemical Engineering and I would vote Physics as the hardest.

Ha! My son is a mechanical engineering major (he hopes) and he would say chem is the hardest.

(If he washes out in mechE he'll major in physics)

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Anonymous wrote:Whatever you are not good at is the hardest major for you. If you’re not good at math, STEM majors would likely be the most difficult for you. If you’re not good at reading, analysis, and writing, majors like English and history might be the most difficult for you.

If your major is *that* difficult, you are likely not in the best major for you.

This isn't true. Not all engineering majors couldn't hack it at English or History.

I vote electrical engineering as one of the hardest. Chemical and petroleum engineering are up there too.

But you're presuming that all English and history majors couldn't hack it as engineers?

Yup, pretty much.

Engineers can do reading, analysis, and writing. English and history majors can't do math.

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Anonymous wrote:Electrical engineering. I know this is 900 years ago, but that was my dad's major and I vaguely remember him telling me that it was a five year program and more than half the class dropped out.

When I was a TA (math) at a large Midwestern state university nearly every freshman/soph when I was teaching college alg/trig/calc1 declared themselves to be some kind of engineering major. That didn't last long.

If trig or calc1 didn't do them in, calc 3 usually did.

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Anonymous wrote:Chemistry
Engineering

+1

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My son's an electrical engineering major. He's a senior and commented on the "thinning" that happened freshman year in all the hard sciences (chemistry, biology, engineering, computer, etc.).

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whatever you are not good at is the hardest major for you. If you’re not good at math, STEM majors would likely be the most difficult for you. If you’re not good at reading, analysis, and writing, majors like English and history might be the most difficult for you.

If your major is *that* difficult, you are likely not in the best major for you.

This isn't true. Not all engineering majors couldn't hack it at English or History.

I vote electrical engineering as one of the hardest. Chemical and petroleum engineering are up there too.

But you're presuming that all English and history majors couldn't hack it as engineers?

Yup, pretty much.

Engineers can do reading, analysis, and writing. English and history majors can't do math.

Not in my experience. Some can. Though I would say a field based on judgment and analysis is far easier to do okay in than a technical field because the flaws aren't as clear-cut.

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Biochemistry is really tough with the various labs.

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Anonymous wrote:Whatever you are not good at is the hardest major for you. If you’re not good at math, STEM majors would likely be the most difficult for you. If you’re not good at reading, analysis, and writing, majors like English and history might be the most difficult for you.

If your major is *that* difficult, you are likely not in the best major for you.

This. You couldn’t hack it as a music major if you just have the skills.

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I was a physics major 35 years ago and I got Ds in Econ-101 and a sophmore-level history class. But I somehow managed to get into Sigma Pi Sigma (the physics honor society). Go figure.

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Anonymous wrote:In the age of this college scandal, what are the majors that people that get in through back doors can’t hack? I feel like job recruiters/grad schools should look at majors, rather than specific colleges.

I'm not sure that the hardest degree is always the best if you are most concerned about job recruiting. DS just got though all of the math courses required for physics plus about half of his physics courses and is considering switching to a finance degree because at his school (Emory) he sees that most of the recruiting is done out of the undergraduate business school. It makes me kind of sad that businesses can't think outside the box when it comes to liberal arts majors, including physics.

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CS degree...dropped out of EE - too tough. And I didn't like it. Thought Electrical beat Physics & Chemical for difficulty. Now...Econ, History, English Lit? Easy As!

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Anonymous wrote:Whatever you are not good at is the hardest major for you. If you’re not good at math, STEM majors would likely be the most difficult for you. If you’re not good at reading, analysis, and writing, majors like English and history might be the most difficult for you.

If your major is *that* difficult, you are likely not in the best major for you.

This isn't true. Not all engineering majors couldn't hack it at English or History.

I vote electrical engineering as one of the hardest. Chemical and petroleum engineering are up there too.

But you're presuming that all English and history majors couldn't hack it as engineers?

Yup, pretty much.

Engineers can do reading, analysis, and writing. English and history majors can't do math.

Not in my experience. Some can. Though I would say a field based on judgment and analysis is far easier to do okay in than a technical field because the flaws aren't as clear-cut.

Engineering requires considerable judgment and analysis. Try again.

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I always thought it must be chemical engineering. You have the combination of tough chemistry *and* tough engineering.
At least at my school, the ChEg majors took chemistry with the chemistry majors, but also had all the college of engineering requirements as well. Phew. That must have been an insane amount of challenging work.
Signed, an aerospace engineer who definitely couldn't have hacked it as a ChEg