<p>How does a molecular biology major or computer science major at mit compare to ucb in terms of workload?</p>
<p>“computer science” is too broad a term. </p>
<p>There are classes in artificial intelligence, natural language processing, complexity theory, all sorts of algorithms, compilers, quantum computing, cryptography … all listed in computer science.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure in some of the lower level CS classes MIT is supposed to cover something more than Berkeley, but in all honesty this is the wrong question to ask, because the bottom line is it’s manageable if you don’t do the most time-consuming classes, and significantly less so if you do, regardless of which school. It also depends on the professor, because computer science classes depend a lot on the specific kind of work assigned. OK fine, so does everything, but projects are what generally change how much time you spend by a huge margin.</p>
<p>Some EECS classes are curved at a B- (2.7/4.0 GPA) at Berkeley. But I think CS classes pride themselves on trying not to do stuff like that. Then again, some professors are notorious for crushing students. After all, in practice not curving at a specified thing and having an absolute point system really means it depends on how difficult an exam the professor writes, and how he/she grades it (there’s a lot of variability there). Others are pretty reasonable and don’t make life much tougher for you than it has to be.</p>
<p>For MCB, I don’t know. It’s competitive in the premed classes at Berkeley, but I can’t say beyond that.</p>