<p>Self-explanatory.</p>
<p>Hardest = not liking a course of study
Easiest = something that intrigues you</p>
<p>EE/ChemE
MechE
CivE
IE</p>
<p>I wouldn’t know where the rest go.</p>
<p>It depends on the person to such an extent that the question is really meaningless. It’s like asking what tastes better, steak or carrots.</p>
<p>EE/CE/ChemE
MechE/Civil
IE</p>
<p>I vote steak, thats an easy one for me</p>
<p>I agree with quicksilver and UCBChemEGrad. The passion for a subject is a huge factor in its perceived difficulty.</p>
<p>One thing I noticed is that smaller programs tend to be a little easier since the professors don’t want people failing, setting them back a whole year. That depends on school though. I’m talking in the range of 20-30 people in a graduating class of a major.</p>
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<p>It might be true to certain extent, but some fields outside of engineering tends to be easy even if you have no passion for the field.</p>
<p>By general consensus around here, from hardest to easiest:</p>
<p>ChemE/AE
EE/CmpE/BME
ME
CivE
IE</p>
<p>True. I guess I should have phrased it differently. If you have passion for a subject, you won’t care if it’s difficult or not. If you don’t, you may struggle anyway, but not because of the difficulty of the material. You may not find yourself wanting to put the effort in, and thus get lower grades than what you can potentially get.</p>
<p>what about nuclear eng. and petro eng.?</p>
<p>^ I’d put nuclear and petroleum eng. up with chemical eng. and eecs.</p>
<p>well, if you like it you’ll get through it EASIER. There are certain courses that i don’t like at all but I get good grades in, and there are courses I like but it’s really hard to pass.</p>
<p>is this some kind of ego boosting thread for the EECS/AE people?</p>
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<p>hahahahahahahahaha</p>
<p>Well its good to know I’m getting to work less hard for grades than somebody else, cause thats unusual. I’m an ME.</p>
<p>A rank order of major means nothing. EE might be harder than ME, but I’d say it’s due to the intelligence of the students than the difficulty of material. Difficulty of a major largely correlates to the strength of your competitors. Hence, IME @ MIT is likely much much harder than EE @ UCSB.</p>
<p>I do think that within a school this is a fair assessment. To reiterate, this is probably due to intelligence differences between majors than the material:</p>
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<p>I think BME is overranked though. I’d put it even with ME.</p>
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<p>I agree that the intelligence of your peers is the #1 factor in determining difficulty. However, you’ll notice this does not extend well into other majors versus engineering. For example, at most schools economics is probably easier than CivE - and not because the civil engineers are more intelligent than the economists. For whatever reason, economics professors tend to curve to a (much) higher GPA than their engineering counterparts.</p>
<p>However, even within engineering, some majors tend to curve to a lower GPA than others. AE in particular is notorious for this - which lends to its perceived difficulty.</p>
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<p>From my experience, BME always has a fair number of pre-meds. This tends to bump the peer intelligence (or at least work ethic) average within BME.</p>
<p>What is AE?</p>