ChemE would be my vote and I'm an ME. Someone mentioned 2 thermos. I don't think that's the reason at all. They took ME's 2 thermos and combined them into a 5 day a week class that you finish in one semester. That makes it more difficult. It's the chemistry, at least for me personally, added on top of everything. Organic is a class used to weed out med school applicants thrown on top of engineering.

Mechanical and Electrical are next. Electrical can be difficult if you don't master diff eq, but other than that, I didn't find the subject matter tough (took some technical electives). Mechanical just hits on a lot of tough subjects pretty thoroughly.

Then there's civil and petroleum. To be honest, all the civil people that were older than me told me horror stories about statics

. That's such a small part of the difficulty of other engineering degrees. I pretty much work as a petroleum engineer now. The PETE grads from LSU I know will say it wasn't that bad.

I don't know anything about environmental, biological, and industrial, so I'll arbitrarily say those are pretty much general studies degrees

Civil had the most girls, so they actually win the prize for when you are in school. Petroleum (until recently) make bank, so they win post grad.

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Posted by Dam Guide

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Posted on 10/9/15 at 6:23 am to KG6

Flangeheads... ME and EE are pretty much similar in difficulty no matter where you go. It's an old rivalry between the sparkies and the flangeheads about who is smarter though...

Bio Med/Chem are tougher. I am guessing LSU doesn't have nuke. That is a major that should be at or near the top every time in an engineering discussion.

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Posted by KamaCausey_LSU

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Posted on 10/9/15 at 12:01 pm to KG6

People saying that Statics was hard must have had Carol Jacobs as a teacher. Though statics is a poor mark for degree difficulty as most engineering degrees take it.

I think the class that sets the bar is Physical Chemistry, which should actually be called Quantum Chemistry.

(Similar to how the most difficult math class I took was called "Elementary Calculus". You don't understand struggle until on of your test questions is to prove that 1>0.)