<p>business
Computer engineering
chemistry
Political science</p>
<p>Given that Ive done business and Political Science, I would have to say that chemistry is probably the hardest. </p>
<p>Although, depending on your political beliefs, poli sci maybe the hardest if you dont agree with your professors.</p>
<p>Computer Engineering.</p>
<p>Business is mid-range and Political Science is easy. Poli Sci is known as the jock major at my university.</p>
<p>Computer engineering > chemistry > business > polisci (in terms of workload)</p>
<p>Those are like the four tiers of difficulty…</p>
<p>Engineering > Science > Pre-Professional > Humanities</p>
<p>This is all incorrect, because it depends entirely on the school and on the professors you choose. I’ve had friends who have been through ridiculously easy electrical engineering programs (generally considered the single most difficult undergraduate program to complete in four years), and extraordinarily difficult philosophy and history programs.</p>
<p>It depends entirely on what sorts of classes you take and what your skills are.</p>
<p>Ridiculously easy EE programs? What university did your friends attend? In general sciences and engineering take a lot more work and effort than the humanities.</p>
<p>A state school where they were smarter than the rest, and as a result were able to study less since they were on a curve.</p>
<p>Really, what you believe is fundamentally incorrect. You are equating length with difficulty. Problem sets generally take longer for students in general sciences and engineering, but it’s impossible to quantify across all disciplines, and the level of effort required for programs in the humanities can vary wildly.</p>
<p>Depends on strengths and the particular school. But in general:
Computer engineering, chemistry, political science tied with business. Computer engineering and chemistry subjects usually will have very time consuming labs.</p>
<p>Engineering = doom (generally). So, yeah…</p>
<p>Engineering > Science > Humanities > Pre-professional</p>
<p>Humanities involve a ****load of writing. I don’t do writing</p>
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<p>If English is their native language, they probably would have rocked humanities too…since they are smarter than the rest. </p>
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<p>Length is one factor determining difficulty. The main factor is conceptualization. Humanities teach at face-value whereas you have to think and conceptualize in the sciences. As long as English is your first language, most people find humanities the easiest.</p>
<p>You don’t have to think in the humanities? Huh. Someone should tell Shakespeare, Freud, and Aristotle.</p>
<p>Aristotle was also somewhat of a scientist. He wrote on physics, bio, etc. </p>
<p>Comparing pioneers of certain fields to modern-day humanities students is ridiculous. Much of the humanities classes require regurgitation, whereas science classes require conceptualization and is harder to absorb. You have to apply certain theories and concepts to various different problems that you have never seen. I’d say that science classes really test your conscious reasoning abilities. It’s a different method of thinking.</p>
<p>all majors are easy except science and engineering</p>
<p>Re #14: Speaking as a kid with a very rigorous science background, I’d have said just the opposite. Science is hard precisely because it’s so much regurgitation and the volumes of information are overwhelming.</p>
<p>I did well in science and math classes, but philosophy was impossible for me. I think it all depends on how your brain works, left brain vs. right brain.</p>
<p>Bio is regurgitation-intensive, Chem and Physics not so much. Bio is seen as a “softer” science because of this reason.</p>
<p>Many pre-meds I know get straight As in Bio because it’s purely regurgitation whereas they do poorly in Chemistry, because it’s not. O-Chem, P-Chem, etc…definitely not regurgitation. </p>
<p>As for “hardest” subject I think most people find Physics to be the hardest to conceptualize. This is why most of the prodigies have been Physicists, they think on a different level.</p>
<p>I found organic to be purely regurgitation. You just have to learn how the electrons move from one spot to another. The most “thinking” you do there is in recognizing that some molecules are very similar to certain other molecules.</p>
<p>It depends on what kind of grades you are trying to get but I assume that you are gunning for A’s. </p>
<p>There is a website that provides Grade Distributions for UVa classes so I will use that as my evidence. For Polisci and the Humanities, it is generally easy for someone to get at least a B or a B-. For example, in American politics 101 almost 80% of the class got at least a B-. In comparison, only a tad more than 50% of the students in Introductory to Chemistry managed a B-. </p>
<p>However, if you are trying to get A’s, the chemistry class gives more out. 12.2% of the Chemistry class recieved A’s, while only 5.5% of the American Politics Class recieved A’s. Intro to comparitive politics only gives out 6.5% A’s, while the intro bio course gives out 12.9% A’s. </p>
<p>Of course there are exceptions to this, but as a rule the amount of A’s given out in the humanities is lower than the amount given in the sciences at UVa.</p>
<p>An A in chemistry might require a lot more work than an A in polisci, but the fact remains that more people tend to get it in chemistry. So if you are trying to get to a top law school, humanities might not be the way to go.</p>