Engineering degrees ranked by difficulty
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Anonymous
chemical engineering is mainly about managing reactions to produce products at and industrial scale (think refinery plants), material engineering is less focused on mass production and more on the relationship between the micro chemical structure and the macro properties of materials |
Anonymous
| Where does financial engineering fit? (Not joking) |
Anonymous
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On a side note I went to an engineering school and I don't think any of the majors are hard for those type of students.
I say that as my roommate was absolutely "big bang" theory brilliant. For him the very difficult Engineering major was super easy. I lost track of him, but I know he went to MIT for Grad School. For average non STEM majors Engineering is insanely difficult. But the people who do it most are brilliant and for them it comes naturally. |
Anonymous
My husband (electrical engineering BS, MS) would agree! 
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Anonymous
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I found the information here helpful. As the parent of a kid who wants to study engineering and will need financial aid, it was surprising to see how low the 4 year graduation rates are in my disciplines, because my understanding is that financial aid lasts 4 years. So, that moves pretty high on my list of criteria for a school. My kid likes and excels at math, so the information about math levels was less helpful, but I can see how it might be useful if you have a kid who wants to be an engineer but doesnm't love math.
Having said that, I feel like "this major is hard because it requires the highest level of math" and "this major is hard, because the programs are either overfilled so kids get closed out of classes, or tiny so classes get cancelled" are two very different things. So, while the information in the video is helpful, the ranking the combines those things really isn't. |
Anonymous
Top US universities for nanotechnology based on research: 1) MIT 2) UCal-Berkeley 3) Stanford 4) Georgia Tech 5) Harvard 6) Northwestern University 7) U Illinois 8) U Texas-Austin 9) U Michigan 10) UCLA 11) Penn State 12) UC-Santa Barbara 13) Cornell 14) U Washington-Seattle 15) Purdue 16) NC state 17) Rice 18) U Wisconsin 19) CalTech 20) U Minnesota 25) U Penn 26) Princeton 27) U Maryland 30) Carnegie Mellon U. 34) Johns Hopkins U. 41) USC 42) Duke 45) Virginia Tech 58) Brown 62) U Virginia https://edurank.org/engineering/nanotechnology/us/ |
Anonymous
| ^Vtech and UVA are not cutting edge research colleges. |
Anonymous
| I have heard systems engineering is difficult. I would put it at tier one. |
Anonymous
| What a ridiculous question. They’re all difficult and how difficult it is for each individual varies based on how their brain works. I think most engineers know this. We don’t ask that question. |
Anonymous
That's small. |
Anonymous
As an aerospace engineer, I love this list
But I really need to give those ChemEngineers props - they were the ones that we always looked at in awe as aerospace engineers. |
Anonymous
LOL!! No. |
Anonymous
Absolutely. We have such a hard time hiring materials engineers - they are in really high demand! The ones I know are absolutely brilliant. |
Anonymous
They prefer "Rocket Science" please! Oh yeah when I worked at NASA with a CS degree - I had to learn Attitude Control and Determination. My uncle did Chemical and my father EE both worked in Aerospace as I did. No one in the fam ever argued which is the hardest this includes others that are: Professors of Physics, BioChemistry, etc. And a few MDs as well. They respected the person not the degree. |
Anonymous
Lots of schools. Around here, you have Virginia Tech, Penn State, and University of West Virginia. The linked video did not include another option, which is Agricultural Engineering. Years ago at Virginia Tech, we viewed this major as less rigorous. At least back then, chemical engineering was considered toughest. |