Are some majors harder than others?

ucbalumnus
Fri, 23 Nov 2012 02:31:06 +0000

pripyat:

I would argue that a major that can be completed in a short period of time because of a lack of prereqs is more likely to be viewed as ‘easy’ compared to one that requires students to traverse a strict chain of interlinked coursework, even if each individual link of the chain may not be difficult.



But not necessarily because of the prerequisite sequencing or not, even though it may be coincidentally true that some majors with short prerequisite chains are “easy” by some other metrics.