Is any engineering major harder than the other majors that are not engineering?

I don't know about harder, but it is different. Clearly you need math skills, and for some reason that scares a lot of people off. I for one never understood how math got that reputation. I am by no means a math wizard, I had to work at some math subjects in college - I hated calculus and differential equations, but I loved linear algebra, probability was a neutral subject fo rme, but I think that was because of the professor. However calc and diff eqs was something I could handle through work and study.

One of the things that makes a subject easier is if it interests you. If the subject matter of Engineering interests you, then that will make it easier for you. I happen to like Shakespeare. I took three years of Shakespeare in college, including 400 level classes, as my humanities electives. I did well in them because I enjoyed the subject matter. I did pooly in Medievial History as a freshman partly because it did not appeal to me.I doubt there were many Engineering students in my class who would have taken Shakespeare and found it easy.

One thing that is factual is the course load. At least when I went to Rutgers Engineering in the 80's, engineers took a larger course load. In order to graduate in 4 years, engineers had to take about an extra 3 credits per semester (thats about one class) more than most other degrees. I don't know if all school are like that, but that is how it was for me. I don't know if you would call that harder than other subjects or not, but it is an increased courseloard - if you want to graduate in 4 years. I knew a number of engineering students that were on the 5 years plan. I'm still in contact with some of them and they are quite successful, so the 5 years really did not hurt them.

dave