<p>I heard from the MIT folks that they make fun of those who have sloan degrees only because these people are taking the easy way out rather than sticking to the science and engineering majors.</p>
<p>Since sloan is on the same level as wharton, wouldn’t that mean wharton is not as hard as people think? it’s actually easier than engineering.</p>
<p>any opinions or thoughts?</p>
<p>1) Sloan is not on the same level as Wharton</p>
<p>2) Yes, the difficulty of Wharton is overblown. At Penn they’re pretty much third on the difficulty depth chart, behind the engineers and science majors. Granted, it’s a diffirent kind of difficulty in that the material is not terribly hard but the curves are very harsh and hair-splitting, but on balance the science/engineering courses have both harsh curves and difficult material.</p>
<p>sloan has a more quantitative focus in general, but wharton has much more depth and breadth in many other fields that sloan doesn’t offer…</p>
<p>and in any case, most would probably argue that it’s the competition, not the course material complexity, that is the reason for stress and difficulty (thus, the infamous although not omnipresent wharton curve)</p>
<p>how bad is the competition at wharton? i’ve heard conflicting accounts as to how bad it is</p>
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<p>It is in fact easier than engineering. I’m an engineer and I make fun all the time of my Wharton friends. Of course, it’s just healthy joking.</p>
<p>And as someone already mentioned, Sloan is not on the same level as Wharton.</p>
<p>Rudess, what do you think is the hardest engineering major? or are they all pretty much the same?</p>
<p>abhim89, I really can’t answer that objectively since I’ve only experienced one of the engineering majors, Computer Science and Engineering. I can tell you CSE is not easy and is probably one of the most hardcore. Programming is time consuming and it’s not for everyone. In the end it really depends on you. For instance, I could never see myself being a Mechanical engineer. That aside, I think you could say Systems Engineering is easier than others, while mabe CSE/EE/BE/CBE (basically, all) are harder.</p>
<p>one could perhaps argue that rankings are commensurate with difficulty of program (and thus quality), so in that case, bioengineering would be the most difficult…</p>
<p>though i’d have to say, based on my 2 years in BE, that it’s not that bad… still got a ton of BE courses to take though, so we’ll see…</p>