<p>I guess it would vary by school also. I went to UIUC, so maybe the Engineering curriculum was harder than usual since that’s what they’re known for.</p>
<p>State schools in general are notorious with their engineering curricula.</p>
<p>It also varies by the student.</p>
<p>I’m sure Einstein would find majoring in history overwhelming, considering his history grades in HS. ;)</p>
<p>There are different ways to look at it. At the undergrad level you will usually find engineering students spending far more time outside of class on studies than A&S students. In A&S, those in sciences and math will usually be spending more hours outside of class studying than others. Partly these differences have to do with required courseload. On a semester system, a typical A&S degree requires 120 to 124 semester hours which can be easily done at 15 to 16 hours a semester. Engineering tends to be in the 131 to 138 hour range, which means you need to average close to 17 hours or more a semester to complete in 4 years (which many, actually majority, in engineering do not do). Also, a typical A&S course like in history is 3 semester hours and actually meets 3 hours a week. Many science and engineering courses (and some math) will give you 3 semester hours of credit but meet 4 or more a week and a typical 1 hour credit lab for a science meets for 3 hours. Thus, engineering and science students usually find they are going to class many more hours per week than others for the same number of credit hours. The homework for math, science and engineering is also of a different kind. In history, you may have to read quite a bit for class and note important things. In math, science and engineering, you spend your life with problem sets, trying to figure out the answer to large numbers of assigned problems per class.</p>
<p>On the other hand, those majoring in history, literature, sociology, etc. end up having far more term papers to do than those in engineering, science and math and many in engineering, science, and math are very glad for that.</p>
<p>Some of us history, sociology and literature majors don’t mind doing term papers. =)</p>
<p>So it’s safe to say, that in your situation, you may stumble being a humanities, history, engilish or linguistics major</p>
<p>drusba</p>
<p>At most schools CS is different than other engineering majors in that it requires less units. At UCDavis all Engineering majors are over 180 units. They range from 181-195 units, but CS major only need to compleate 180 units to graduate same as all of the other non Engineering majors.</p>
<p>What is also interesting is that while Engineering majors have to take more units for their B.S/B.A the master program for engineering is shorter than most other majors. </p>
<p>Students wanting to do a Master program in Statisitcs, Mathematics, Phsyics, Chemestry, ect have to take more units to compleate it than an Engineer canidate would.</p>
<p>It really depends on the prereqs you have to take. It’s definitely harder to major in History at Stanford than math at some community college. What kind of question is this? Of course, they’re not all equal. Stop living in your socialist fantasy. We’re not in Norway, unfortunately. Love,</p>
<p>-saving.the.day</p>