Most difficult branch of engineering?

NeoDymium
Sat, 04 Aug 2012 14:44:52 +0000

My experiences seem to differ a fair bit from yours then. I’ve seen a general consensus in most places I’ve looked that EE and ChE are the two hardest (with the most rationale to support this conjecture), and looking at these majors side-by-side, that opinion seems to be valid enough.

Sure, there isn’t an objectively correct answer. It’s a subjective question and any statistical analysis on the matter would be plagued by so many confounding variables and so much response bias that you’d be unlikely to get a correct result. However, I do think that it would be possible to say that some are harder than others.

At the same time, it’s a completely irrelevant question because:

1. Difficulty is much less relevant than what you actually get out of it, and I don’t believe that there are any general trends for which engineering majors are the best for getting something out of it.

2. It does depend on schools. 2-3 evil labs/professors here and there would add a lot of skew in favor of any major.