The Hardest Degree?

In terms of conceptual difficulty, I think that pure maths is up there as one of the hardest. Infinite dimensional topological compactifications hurt my brain!
 
I did a BSc in Optical Communications and that was pretty tough! Much much much much more work han my housemates who did PE.
 
[TW]Fox;10574910 said:
Pointless thread unless people have experience of all these courses which of course none of us have, with us having practical experience of 1, or at most 2, degrees.
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Not only that, what one person finds very hard another might find 'OK' to do.

I'm sure maths and physics are very close to the top though for anyone.
 
well the last 3 years of a medical degree are basically all clinical and very little academic lecture stuff so I doubt you do more clinical time, although it sounds like you do a lot in that course
 
Architecture students have the most sleepless nights. Difficulty depends on talent but talent does not make drawings or models, that thats ages. Don't know any other course where students sleep at the uni studios in sleeping bags and bring in their own microwave to save time going home for food and bed.
 
shifty_uk said:
Would a finance related degree be mostly maths orientated?
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It depends on what you define to be maths. There would be very little real maths involved in a finance degree. The most in depth it could possibly go is down to stochastic calculus, However you would more than likely learn only the very basics and how to apply a couple of formula. However if by maths you mean, will it use numbers, then there is likely to be a lot of maths! :rolleyes:
 
Because aptitudes differ, I think about difficulty in terms of how easily the average person plucked off the street could grasp the relevant ideas. In that respect, I'd go for maths. Through school and university, it seemed to me that the greater the level of abstraction, the more trouble people have in quickly understanding things. Skills like memorisation and critical thinking are used in our day to day life pretty regularly so can be readily applied to business, humanities, social sciences, etc. I think the type of thinking needed to feel comfortable with more abstract concepts (e.g. vector spaces, baysean forecasting, whatever), even if relatively basic, is quite different and not 'exercised' as frequently; hense a general aversion to maths amongst young kids in school.

I did Economics at university and despite A-level maths being a prerequisite, the headaches of me and my peers over the 3 years were normally a result of maths & stats. All subjects have their unique difficulties but I think that relative to maths, throwing hours at these difficulties is more likely to yield results.
 
Hiroki said:
It depends on what you define to be maths. There would be very little real maths involved in a finance degree. The most in depth it could possibly go is down to stochastic calculus, However you would more than likely learn only the very basics and how to apply a couple of formula. However if by maths you mean, will it use numbers, then there is likely to be a lot of maths! :rolleyes:
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:p By maths I meant the ability to undertake complex calculations along with a wide understanding and knowledge of mathematics. :)

I know what I want to study at Uni, although I was looking alternatives, just incase I decide after my gap year that I no longer wish to study the chosen subject. So, a business/commercial banking/finance related degree seemed appealing, but I'm not brilliant with numbers, especially during my school years. :(
 
Chemical Engineering was the most hrs when i studied.
None of my freinds even came close to my hours.
Was it hard? yes some of it was very very hard, but I also enjoyed it thinking back now after 10+ years of working in the industry. Deffo worth the extra effort I put in over my freinds who studied Social policy or some such junk.
I built a career that i enjoy and has kept me intrested and challanged for the last 10 years, I have travelled the world and earn a very good sallary with advancement still to come.

Hardest degree i dont know but it worked for me.
 
I do primary teaching which mentally may not be the hardest in terms of the theory compared to maths and law etc. However it is hard work especially when your on teaching practise for example I had 4 weeks of getting 5 hours sleep ever night and this year its 6 weeks! But I wouldn't do it if I didn't love it :)
 
shifty_uk said:
Would a finance related degree be mostly maths orientated?
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That depends on what you mean by Maths. A lot of what I've done so far at Uni has been finance related (Including my placement) and whilst it's almost all about numbers, the actual maths rarely ever extends beyond adding, subtracting, fractions and percentages.
 
Raymond Lin said:
Architecture students have the most sleepless nights. Difficulty depends on talent but talent does not make drawings or models, that thats ages. Don't know any other course where students sleep at the uni studios in sleeping bags and bring in their own microwave to save time going home for food and bed.
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But thats our own fault, cos when where not sleeping in the studio where partying! :D
 
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