Are some majors harder than others?

rideronthewheel
Tue, 20 Nov 2012 20:45:46 +0000

I know that a lot of Berkeley students (especially in STEM) are incredibly insecure and like to proclaim that their major is more difficult than everyone else’s. But does anyone actually think this is objectively true? It seems to me that different majors simply require different skill sets; a humanities major would probably struggle to complete an upper division mathematics problem set, but at the same time an EECS major would probably struggle to read 100+ pages weekly and write coherently and concisely about it. However, most other Berkeley students I have talked to have no reservations about proclaiming that “major x is a joke and major y is much harder.”