Business - Accounting

Agg - Bio Chem

Liberal Arts - Economics

Science - Physics

Engineering - Nuclear

Your thoughts?

for engineering I think it depends. for example, I get electrical and mechanical, but hated statics and cven 305; civil would have killed me.

Civil is probably the easiest of the "real" engineering degrees. Basically take proportion of females in said engineering discipline and then rate it from lowest to most. Thats not a knock really on females, just the reality that they tend to gravitate downhill.

So yeah, NUEN, CHEN, ELEN most people dont argue the top 3 and I suggest that by using my criteria NUEN must be the top one by lack of female students. I however am an ELEN.

CHEN actually has quite of few females in the classes and no one would really go to say that it's anywhere near easier. I rank us right behind nuclear. I think that CHEN is the exception to the male/female and dificulting rating system though.

Funny how this thread goes straight to the hardest engineering. Oh well, I am an AERO student myself and its quite difficult. I don't know if it's the hardest, but I do know it's pretty difficult. Also, if you want to go with how many girls are in each engineering department. I know there are not that many female AERO majors.

the the Engineering is disputable, what about the others?

Engineering - ID

Serenity Now!

My vote goes for Aero, with Nuc a close second.

Biochem is EASILY the hardest degree in Ag...not even a fair contest!

bims in bims

Looks like a good list to me.

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Biochem is EASILY the hardest degree in Ag...not even a fair contest!

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? Agricultural Engineering ?

Actually "Bioengineering/Agricultural Engineering" is in the College of Engineering, so says my nifty planner I got today in Zachry from the SEC.

www.tamu.edu/admissions/Final2005UndergradCatalog/Source/C-Agriculture/COALS_Contents.htm

Actually, you're wrong. The above link take you to the course catalog, specifically for the college of agriculture and life sciences. You'll see the agricultrual engineering is listed there, not in the Dwight Look College of Engineering.

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Agricultural Engineering--offered in conjunction with the Dwight Look
College of Engineering

Biological Systems Engineering--offered in conjunction with the Dwight Look
College of Engineering

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Then of course you could have gone to their own website.

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The Texas A&M University Department of Biological & Agricultural Engineering, one of the largest in North America, ranks among the best in the nation as evidenced by the accomplishments of the students, graduates, former students and faculty. The department is jointly administered by the Dwight Look College of Engineering and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

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I just posted that my planner from the SEC said that it was in Engineering, which was correct. However, you failed to read your own links and realize before you made an arse of yourself that it was actually a cross-college major. While my post might have inferred that it was only in one college, no information precluded it from saying that it could be in both, only that my planner said it was at least in engineering.

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QUOTE from Randy03: "Basically take proportion of females in said engineering discipline and then rate it from lowest to most. Thats not a knock really on females, just the reality that they tend to gravitate downhill."

Is that a joke??? If that is not trying to be a 'knock' on females, I really do not know what is. Besides, your logic is lacking anyway, ChemEng is one of the more difficult engineering majors and is also one that typically has a higher percentage of females.

There are a lot of ChemE women and most of them are not the type of girls you'd want to date. They are all out to prove something or just want to make you feel like you are inferior to them somehow...but thats common among all ChemE majors..

perhaps not the hardest....but best potential for a lucrative career....finance

I was ELEN, and I always felt that AERO looked like hell on earth.

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finance can be lucrative IF you want to be an investment banker working 100+ hours a week. Otherwise you'll just become another "financial analyst" which isn't too great of a job...good, but not great.

ChemE's will have the final joke on them when they have to live and work at plants in places like Borger, Texas City, Pascagoula, and other armpits of the Gulf Coast, wearing Nomex and supervising operators who eat donuts all day and earn overtime for doing it.

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make you feel like you are inferior to them somehow...but thats common among all ChemE majors..

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We only make those with inferiority complexes feel inferior...

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ChemE's will have the final joke on them when they have to live and work at plants in places like Borger, Texas City, Pascagoula, and other armpits of the Gulf Coast, wearing Nomex and supervising operators who eat donuts all day and earn overtime for doing it.

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Or we could be sitting in the nice offices at engineering firms making more money straight out of college, doing less b*tch work than almost anyone here at A&M.

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finance can be lucrative IF you want to be an investment banker working 100+ hours a week. Otherwise you'll just become another "financial analyst" which isn't too great of a job...good, but not great.

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That's not necessarily true. IBs that provide debt market services for public and government entities don't always work the dreaded 100 hour week...most work far less hours.

Traders and buy-side equity research analysts tend to work more civilized hours and are almost as lucrative (especially after you factor in salary vs hours). Sell-side analysts (especially those fresh out of college) do work long hours, but if you're single, 22 and fresh out of college, there's a world out there to make your mark....plenty of time to transition elsewhere later in life.

Granted to truly progress an additional credential(s) like an MBA or CFA charter is becoming more and more essential.

That said, as with any profession, it gets better if you can stick with it, you can use what you learn if you choose to move, and, as always, it's what you put into it.



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College of Geoscience - Geophysics

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I suggest that by using my criteria NUEN must be the top one by lack of female students

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NUEN had more chicks (%) than any of the other engineering degrees sans bio-medical engineering.