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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a BS in Chemical Engineering and I would vote Physics as the hardest. [/quote]
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)[/quote]
This just demonstrates why this is a pointless idea. The difficulty of a major often has to do with the curriculum at a specific school. At my university, the people who washed out of physics majored in ME. At my DH's, it was the opposite.

There is some correlation between which majors are difficult and the type of university. For example, humanities are typically more difficult at SLACs and Ivies. Hard sciences are more difficult than engineering at elite privates, and engineering more than hard sciences at flagship state universities. But there are obviously exceptions to this. And for places like CalTech, Stanford, MIT, and Princeton, you'd have to go department-by-department to figure out whether a particular hard science or engineering discipline was more difficult.[/quote]

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