This topic is just for fun, discussion, and knowledge. What do you think is the hardest and easiest major? Not the hardest or easiest major for you, but just in general for most people. In my opinion the hardest would be physics. Physics has very tough concepts and it takes an enormously good set of problem solving skills to solve the problems. Then after that I'd say electrical engineering, applied math, pure math, and maybe computer engineering. For the easiest major I'm saying education. Anyone can easily major in education and pass all of their classes with little effort. It has by far the highest average GPA. After that I'd guess maybe sociology (the common sense major!) then philosophy or psychology.
^You are right Slender. But for this reason I have asked for the hardest and easiest majors in general. In my opinion, an average physics major can take a class in the education department and do fine in the class more often than not. But if you take an average education student, I think that student will struggle much more in a physics class. At least struggle more than the physics student would in the education course on average. Engineers typically have the lowest GPA and then physics and math are not far behind. Education majors have the highest GPA on average.
I don't think that that physicist would then do well in education. I think it is all about personal skills. Although some may be harder, I don't know that any are "easier" so to speak. A physicist could take the education course and pass, but there's a whole other mindset to being a student educator. (At least in primary schools, half of it is discipline and friendliness etc.) I think they do have a bit of knowledge as to how students or kids think and the such. To clarify, I think that a physicist could take the education class and probably do just as well as the other person, but they wouldn't simply know the material the educator knows.
Me personally, I'd say probably a chemist or anyone in anything primarily math-based. I'd put psychology up a bit higher as well. Easiest, definitely education, perhaps you could throw music in there. Religion or religious studies.
I don't think languages are easy majors. I took a couple classes of Japanese and it was pretty difficult. And I'm pretty good at learning languages. I didn't put forth much study time, though. Senioritis... I'd say the sciences are probably the most difficult. The subject matter gets so hard and specific. Also, they tend to be the more popular majors, so there is a lot of competition. In some of my classes, the objective was to give you a D just to weed out as many people a possible. I'd say music is also probably a relatively easy major.
Hm ok blockey I understand your point. Mayday I do agree that communications is easy. I think I carry a little bit different mindset than some of the pimd users. Many people will say that everyone has strengths and weaknesses and no general major is harder than another. In my opinion, it should be this way but I don't think that it is this way. For example, I started off as an engineering major. I did worse in my engineering classes than any other class and so did all of my engineering friends. Engineering, at least at my school, just has a much harder curriculum than most of the other majors. Many engineers get C's and B's in there engineering courses and A's in other courses that are totally unrelated to their major. The class averages for tests in engineering are usually 50 whereas for most classes it's closer to 70. The engineering teachers make their classes harder because when someone graduates with an engineering degree and becomes an engineer, they better know what they are doing or else the equipment they design may malfunction and kill someone. This is why I believe engineering can be considered a harder major than something like education.
^ok I just read both of you guys's above post after submitting my post and I totally agree now. In general, I'd say, science/math/engineering majors are considered the toughest and social science majors like education/sociology/liberal arts/communication etc are considered easier. Some people say that a science/math/engineering person can do a social science persons work but a social science person can't do a science/math/engineering persons work.
Psychology is not an easy subject. There's a large amount of neuropsychology, statistics and visual perception work involved so having a science background makes it a lot easier. We also were strongly encouraged to study human and animal biology and genetics modules too. Media studies for me is always going to be an easy options along with sociology. But then it's like this...if you can do it, it's easy. If you can't it's hard.
Oh and this debate has raged between arts and science students for years about who has the easiest subjects. I'd put law and medicine as pretty difficult, and vet science. Many schools here dropped compulsory languages post 14 as they were too hard and people were failing so went for easy subjects like cookery and textiles to boost their league table positions.
Yea I'd actually put medical school at number one in difficulty but that's not quite a major. I guess Pre-med can be a major. It has such high competition and GPA is so crucial along with other things. I think engineering, even though its a hard degree plan typically, can somewhat get away with a below average GPA because an engineering degree is so marketable.
Ah you see I don't really know what subjects are majors cos I'm English so I'm going by degree subjects lol.