Engineering degrees ranked by difficulty

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Anonymous wrote: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.

That's a nice anecdote, but I don't think most engineering students are geniuses who find their degrees a breeze. Over 100,000 bachelor's degrees are awarded by American universities a year.

Less than 0.0002% of the population have IQs 170 and above. So, no, all STEM major are not geniuses.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Electrical Engineering requires the most physics knowledge and is a very heavy theoretical field for an engineering degree. I'd put them "tier 1" before chemical any day

Are you a chemist or do you just assume that everything up don't understand must be easy?

Was a chem minor with EE...wouldn't claim myself to be a chemist, but it's not something you need a PhD in to have an opinion on

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

That's a nice anecdote, but I don't think most engineering students are geniuses who find their degrees a breeze. Over 100,000 bachelor's degrees are awarded by American universities a year.

Less than 0.0002% of the population have IQs 170 and above. So, no, all STEM major are not geniuses.

Not only that, but if it was "so easy" for most engineering majors they wouldn't have the longest hours of study among college students.

Even in physics or pure math, nowhere near a majority of students are geniuses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a chemical engineer. I do not think that it was a harder course of study than other engineering disciplines. There is some extra course load w/ the extra chem courses and associated labs (damn you P-chem lab!), but "harder"? Nah. More time-intensive? Probably.

What I love about engineering school is that it teaches kids to get comfortable with the feeling of being lost. There are times when you are sitting in a lecture and have zero idea what the professor is talking about. You don't panic. You sit with the discomfort and then eventually, hopefully, things start to click. This is why I love hiring engineers for jobs even when not directly technical. They know how to solve problems and don't freak out when given a task outside their comfort zone.

This. I’m one of “lower-tiered” engineers that’s moved in a different but still very technical direction and I believe PP is correct. “Engineering” is about logic and innovation and reality (and the physical, chemical, electrical and practical limitations that govern most ventures in life). I am honored to have been so instructed and humbled to be around so many brilliant purveyors of their respective disciplines.

That said, from my experience, I found the nuke boys….cause they were all male back then…were the ones who operated in a whole other atmosphere. We didn’t have any Aeros at our school but the next group of top talent were the EEs and ChemEs. The ME crowd also has my respect; thermo was the e class I really struggled in. 😩

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

That's a nice anecdote, but I don't think most engineering students are geniuses who find their degrees a breeze. Over 100,000 bachelor's degrees are awarded by American universities a year.

Less than 0.0002% of the population have IQs 170 and above. So, no, all STEM major are not geniuses.

Not only that, but if it was "so easy" for most engineering majors they wouldn't have the longest hours of study among college students.

Even in physics or pure math, nowhere near a majority of students are geniuses.

Most of us physics people are idiots. We have the brains to do CS or literally any other course of study where you don't feel constantly stupid and foolish, but we like talking about particles. Just how it is.

[Anonymous]

Husband is a metallurgical engineer. It’s a great field. Wish our son (who is a whiz at chemistry, physics and math) would consider it but he wants to do something different than his dad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

That's a nice anecdote, but I don't think most engineering students are geniuses who find their degrees a breeze. Over 100,000 bachelor's degrees are awarded by American universities a year.

Less than 0.0002% of the population have IQs 170 and above. So, no, all STEM major are not geniuses.

Genius is 140+

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

That's a nice anecdote, but I don't think most engineering students are geniuses who find their degrees a breeze. Over 100,000 bachelor's degrees are awarded by American universities a year.

Less than 0.0002% of the population have IQs 170 and above. So, no, all STEM major are not geniuses.

Genius is 140+

Genius isn't defined by IQ, but if you were to pick an IQ for genius it wouldn't be 140 which is in the moderately gifted category.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

That's a nice anecdote, but I don't think most engineering students are geniuses who find their degrees a breeze. Over 100,000 bachelor's degrees are awarded by American universities a year.

Less than 0.0002% of the population have IQs 170 and above. So, no, all STEM major are not geniuses.

Genius is 140+

And that's one half of one percent of the population. 6% of college graduates major in engineering. Obviously the typical engineering student doesn't have a 140+ IQ.

[Anonymous]

PP claimed all STEM were “Big Bang” brilliant. They were all 170+.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

That's a nice anecdote, but I don't think most engineering students are geniuses who find their degrees a breeze. Over 100,000 bachelor's degrees are awarded by American universities a year.

Less than 0.0002% of the population have IQs 170 and above. So, no, all STEM major are not geniuses.

Genius is 140+

And that's one half of one percent of the population. 6% of college graduates major in engineering. Obviously the typical engineering student doesn't have a 140+ IQ.

I think when they’ve looked into this, the average engineering graduate has an IQ of 120. At top engineering schools it’s probably 130+

[Anonymous]

...which means the vast majority have to study hard to do well.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

That's a nice anecdote, but I don't think most engineering students are geniuses who find their degrees a breeze. Over 100,000 bachelor's degrees are awarded by American universities a year.

Less than 0.0002% of the population have IQs 170 and above. So, no, all STEM major are not geniuses.

Genius is 140+

And that's one half of one percent of the population. 6% of college graduates major in engineering. Obviously the typical engineering student doesn't have a 140+ IQ.

I think when they’ve looked into this, the average engineering graduate has an IQ of 120. At top engineering schools it’s probably 130+

I believe this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a chemical engineer. I do not think that it was a harder course of study than other engineering disciplines. There is some extra course load w/ the extra chem courses and associated labs (damn you P-chem lab!), but "harder"? Nah. More time-intensive? Probably.

What I love about engineering school is that it teaches kids to get comfortable with the feeling of being lost. There are times when you are sitting in a lecture and have zero idea what the professor is talking about. You don't panic. You sit with the discomfort and then eventually, hopefully, things start to click. This is why I love hiring engineers for jobs even when not directly technical. They know how to solve problems and don't freak out when given a task outside their comfort zone.

This. I’m one of “lower-tiered” engineers that’s moved in a different but still very technical direction and I believe PP is correct. “Engineering” is about logic and innovation and reality (and the physical, chemical, electrical and practical limitations that govern most ventures in life). I am honored to have been so instructed and humbled to be around so many brilliant purveyors of their respective disciplines.

That said, from my experience, I found the nuke boys….cause they were all male back then…were the ones who operated in a whole other atmosphere. We didn’t have any Aeros at our school but the next group of top talent were the EEs and ChemEs. The ME crowd also has my respect; thermo was the e class I really struggled in. 😩

As an EE, thermodynamics was fun. I didn't like Statics and Dynamics. It's just tedious vector mathematics that you can only solve manually for very small systems. Most of the time you would just use ANSYS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why is this comparison necessary? All engineering is hard. This is known.

Well there are ranges within Engineering.
Civil and Industrial are well know to be "easier" degrees. Versus EE, CHemE, BME, MatScience
That is really not debatable, imo. But within EE, CHEME, BME, MatSci, Agree, they are all hard