What are the most difficult majors?

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Anonymous wrote:Depends on your strengths. Some people really struggle with writing, some people really struggle with math.

This.

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The most difficult majors are the ones which require work...labs or problem sets, or essays and papers, or artwork or performance. The majors that have you only attend class and take multiple choice exams should be avoided.

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Anonymous wrote:The belief that math, engineering, and the "hard sciences" (i.e., not biology?) are the most difficult is directly related to the fact that those are highly male-dominated fields. I was a female math major and I can tell you, math is not that hard. It is just regarded as such because of sexism.

Agree.

Female engineer here. I disagree. Engineering is very hard. Law school was a complete joke by comparison.

Yeah, my son is an engineer and is breezing through law school. He reminds me of a law school classmate of mine who could just cut through the cases to find the critical nugget of analytical value. You want to loathe people like that, but, of course, they're engineers, so they're super-affable.

Well, we had engineers and doctors in my law school class. They didn't "breeze" through it. They were on par with everyone else.

I went to a top five engineering undergrad and a top five law school. The engineering program was much more rigorous and difficult in my opinion.

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Anonymous wrote:The belief that math, engineering, and the "hard sciences" (i.e., not biology?) are the most difficult is directly related to the fact that those are highly male-dominated fields. I was a female math major and I can tell you, math is not that hard. It is just regarded as such because of sexism.

Agree.

Female engineer here. I disagree. Engineering is very hard. Law school was a complete joke by comparison.

Yeah, my son is an engineer and is breezing through law school. He reminds me of a law school classmate of mine who could just cut through the cases to find the critical nugget of analytical value. You want to loathe people like that, but, of course, they're engineers, so they're super-affable.

Well, we had engineers and doctors in my law school class. They didn't "breeze" through it. They were on par with everyone else.

I went to a top five engineering undergrad and a top five law school. The engineering program was much more rigorous and difficult in my opinion.

Engineers who go to law school have the advantage of having worked very hard as undergrads, so the law school workload, which can feel relentless to students who majored in humanities or social sciences, feels more manageable to them. Also, the logic puzzle aspect of law school comes easily to engineers. An engineer who's articulate and a decent writer can excel in law school.

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This is literally the stupidest thread I have ever seen in the college forum.

- Engineer that could not run my company without, writers... project managers... contracting officers.... people that can talk to customers without pissing them off (rarely and engineer)

I know this will piss you off... but you know who you should hire to run your office... college cheerleaders, they are organized, intelligent, caring and get the team working together.

... and I'm a woman who would never in a million years been a cheerleader.

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Anonymous wrote:This is literally the stupidest thread I have ever seen in the college forum.

- Engineer that could not run my company without, writers... project managers... contracting officers.... people that can talk to customers without pissing them off (rarely and engineer)

I know this will piss you off... but you know who you should hire to run your office... college cheerleaders, they are organized, intelligent, caring and get the team working together.

... and I'm a woman who would never in a million years been a cheerleader.

The question was what is the most difficult major? (One very reasonable answer is Engineering.) What in your comments even begins to answer this question?

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I'm surprised to see nursing here as some of the flakiest people I know became nurses and none were super book smart. There is no way it's the hardest major. Also you can do a lot of the core coursework at junior college. Nevertheless, they are some of the best people at one's side when in the hospital!

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Anonymous wrote:I'm surprised to see nursing here as some of the flakiest people I know became nurses and none were super book smart. There is no way it's the hardest major. Also you can do a lot of the core coursework at junior college. Nevertheless, they are some of the best people at one's side when in the hospital!

Hardest major does not mean major with the smartest people. Nursing probably is a slog. I'll let the engineers whine about how much work they did, but they aren't as a group that smart either. I had plenty of classes with engineering students who were only good at organizing study groups (and never showing up with any answers). Even after the weed-out years, they sure pushed the class averages down.

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Anonymous wrote:This is literally the stupidest thread I have ever seen in the college forum.

- Engineer that could not run my company without, writers... project managers... contracting officers.... people that can talk to customers without pissing them off (rarely and engineer)

I know this will piss you off... but you know who you should hire to run your office... college cheerleaders, they are organized, intelligent, caring and get the team working together.

... and I'm a woman who would never in a million years been a cheerleader.

The question was what is the most difficult major? (One very reasonable answer is Engineering.) What in your comments even begins to answer this question?

That is the subject line but the hypothesis put forward is that job recruiters should only hire these degrees to ensure they don't hire a scandalous cheater. How ignorant is that?

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Anonymous wrote:This is literally the stupidest thread I have ever seen in the college forum.

- Engineer that could not run my company without, writers... project managers... contracting officers.... people that can talk to customers without pissing them off (rarely and engineer)

I know this will piss you off... but you know who you should hire to run your office... college cheerleaders, they are organized, intelligent, caring and get the team working together.

... and I'm a woman who would never in a million years been a cheerleader.

So most difficult and workplace value would be a double major - writing and science focus!!!

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Anonymous wrote:This is literally the stupidest thread I have ever seen in the college forum.

- Engineer that could not run my company without, writers... project managers... contracting officers.... people that can talk to customers without pissing them off (rarely and engineer)

I know this will piss you off... but you know who you should hire to run your office... college cheerleaders, they are organized, intelligent, caring and get the team working together.

... and I'm a woman who would never in a million years been a cheerleader.

So most difficult and workplace value would be a double major - writing and science focus!!!
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Looked it up article in a higher ed journal...

https://www.chronicle.com/article/Double-Majors-Produce-Dynamic/137917

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What a pathetic thread. Who could possibly answer this thread...Most people don't take very advanced college courses in more than 2-3 fields at the most.

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Chemical engineering, microbiology, computer science, nuclear physics.