Most difficult Degree to get

Davidius

A maths or physics degree is probably not that difficult considering the people who do them generally have the aptitude and are already well-adjusted to the kind of work involved. Granted I've only done the first year of a maths degree.

I like telling people I do maths as it gives people the illusion that I'm smart.

Killer Pigeon

Davidius wrote: »

A maths or physics degree is probably not that difficult considering the people who do them generally have the aptitude and are already well-adjusted to the kind of work involved. Granted I've only done the first year of a maths degree.

I like telling people I do maths as it gives people the illusion that I'm smart.

Yeah, I guess that's more or less true. I'm finished first year of a th. physics degree and most of the people found the physics and applied maths modules easy enough. More people had problems with the pure math but still not a huge amount failed, except in the first half of the year ... although that was probably due to the fact that people were just getting used to college life, etc..

Emmsy

pmcmahon wrote: »

361 degrees,i just can't seem to find it

Me too, been going round in feckin' circles looking for it.

Seloth

Multimedia is ment to be quite a difficult course in CIT.

Students are gven a few days to do a project,most having to stay up entire nights working on them.

IvyTheTerrible

The hardest degree to get is probably the one you do that you are not suited for or that is too much for you.

Rocket science or anything is easy if you have the aptitude and you are interested by the subject.

Some people say Arts degrees are easy, but I know full well I would struggle through one, I'm more geared towards Science-y things.

Sonnenblumen

Voltex wrote: »

Im gonna have a guess...but maybe applied physics or medicine. But do you think?

No, the 3 Degrees!

massdebater

Davidius wrote: »

A maths or physics degree is probably not that difficult considering the people who do them generally have the aptitude and are already well-adjusted to the kind of work involved. Granted I've only done the first year of a maths degree.

I like telling people I do maths as it gives people the illusion that I'm smart.

My thoughts exactly. Personally, any sort of maths, physics, engineering degree would seem fairly easy to me whereas a degree in say french or spanish would be pretty tough.

I started off doing a Maths degree when I finished school and thought it was a doddle. Now I'm in the middle of a Marketing degree and I find it much more difficult.

Different strokes for different folks

Banned Account

There's no real answer to this question in my opinion. I have degrees in Arts, Engineering and law and found that to get good results, they were all equally tough. They just require different skill sets.

What one person may find difficult (eg learning reams of info by rote and applying it to a given problem) another may find easy. On the flipside, when it comes to applying your knowledge to situations that require inventive thought - some may excel and others fail miserably.

It doesn't really mean that one is tougher than the other - just that one may be more or less suited to a given student.

Personally I think I would find languages tough going due to the work and attendence required I alos think medicine would be extremely intensive - that said, I would'nt say either is tougher than the ones I have done.

fakearms123

I did Mathematical Sciences which involved core maths, finance, physics, biology and actuary, it was incredibly difficult, insanely difficult but I got my 1.1 so thanks to this thread I have a reason to boast about it again! :cool:

orourkeda

Voltex wrote: »

Just looking at the medical finals exam paper for last year on the UCC site.... and Im thinking medicine.

Piece of cake

Webmonkey

Impossible to answer. It depends on the person.

I done 4 years of a tough computer science course and in 4th year we had marketing modules. Couldn't learn the stuff as I hated it. Was probably my worst subject in the 4 years. Not necessarily a hard one but a hard one to study for.

MarcusFenix

Webmonkey wrote: »

Impossible to answer. It depends on the person.

I done 4 years of a tough computer science course and in 4th year we had marketing modules. Couldn't learn the stuff as I hated it. Was probably my worst subject in the 4 years. Not necessarily a hard one but a hard one to study for.

Where did you do it? Whoever decided to put a mickey mouse auxiliary subject in your final year should be shot! That bugs the sh1t outta me when they do that!

I feel your pain!

panda100

Having studied medicine I wouldnt say Its difficult. Its just long and very boring,especially when your not that interested in it. You just have to have a head for retaining information and remembering everything.

I'm heading back to uni to do Social policy this year and think Im gona find it mega tough as I haven't had an indepenent thought or analysed anything in years.

There is not such thing as the most difficult course as it all depends on the person.

Webmonkey

MarcusFenix wrote: »

Where did you do it? Whoever decided to put a mickey mouse auxiliary subject in your final year should be shot! That bugs the sh1t outta me when they do that!

I feel your pain!

CIT. We got hit with the new semester system in 4th year and we had to do that subject for some reason. It was really sick. Well it was "Marketing for IT". But it was just marketing in general with a different name!

anniehoo

Mickeroo wrote: »

Isn't veterinary medicine even harder than regular medicine? .

Id put Vet Medicine head and shoulders above Human Medicine as the toughest.The amount of species and their problems that they have to study is unreal (dogs,cats,rodents,cows,sheep,horses,birds,exotics,marine animals..).Its so unbelieveably tough as the aetiology and treatment for diseases can vary wildly in each species, the animal cant tell you its symptoms so Vets have to be constantly on the ball.

rubensni wrote: »

Vets have the highest suicide rate of all jobs, so whatever about the the degree the it must be a super tough life:

I think anyone who is involved with animals is genuinely a more emotional and sensitive person anyway.The job is highly pressurised, with unsociable hours and involves dealing with a lot of idiotic owners.At least with human medicine you can reason with most people, animals are a different kettle of fish.

DOC09UNAM

Human medicine is a bit more important though.


Edit, by a bit, I mean a shíteload.

anniehoo

DOC09UNAM wrote: »

Human medicine is a bit more important though.


Edit, by a bit, I mean a shíteload.

Without veterinary medicine where do you think the human race would be? Vets inspect animals for potentially zoonotic diseases, test our meat to ensure its safe for human consumption, monitor and treat animals in quarantine for diseases (eg. rabies), provide emotional support for owners and medical treatment for companion animals, monitor research laboratories where animals are used for human medical testing, research zoonotic diseases themselves which consquently affect the human population etc

Both vets and human doctors do incredible work, but to say human medicine is a "****eload" more important is incredibly ignorant and a massive exaggeration.

DOC09UNAM

Not really, without "human medicine", we probably wouldn't be alive.

anniehoo

DOC09UNAM wrote: »

Not really, without "human medicine", we probably wouldn't be alive.

Well thought out argument there :rolleyes: I didnt say it wasnt important and its blatantly obvious humans wouldnt live as long without it, but you need to credit veterinary medicine for the impact it has on human health aswell as animals.

DOC09UNAM

I'm not saying it's not important, I'm just saying i'd consider humn medicine to be a good bit more important, that said, I'm doing neither, it's just from an ignorant point of view I suppose.

bonzodog2

bonerm wrote: »

O degrees Kelvin is also quite difficult

because Kelvin is not measured in degrees

Cuddlesworth

Fine Arts or any subjective degree. With most other degrees you either know your subject or don't. With Arts you can scrape through four years, throw some **** on a canvas and on the day it can be called bold and interesting and you have a honors degree all while you try and figure out if that is your fecal matter or somebody else.

Me Me

Agricola wrote: »

Serious answer: Any degree focused on pure maths, physics, engineering or some combination of them.

You need to know your stuff and be able to apply it to new scenarios and situations.

Arts, business degrees etc are largely waffle and a case of regurgitating theory.

Agricola wrote: »

Serious answer: Any degree focused on pure maths, physics, engineering or some combination of them.

You need to know your stuff and be able to apply it to new scenarios and situations.

Arts, business degrees etc are largely waffle and a case of regurgitating theory.

I would have to disagree on the latter statement, in arts they encourage you continuously to form your own arguments based on the foundation of secondary readings. Simply regurgitating material particularly in essays is frowned upon or results in plagiarism.

General Zod

Biggins wrote: »

Any level above the 30th degree in the Freemasons to be honest.

Ach, that's just the "scottish rites" stuff and is only really important to those who go for it. Most Masons wouldn't bother with it.

Celly Smunt

General Zod wrote: »

Ach, that's just the "scottish rites" stuff and is only really important to those who go for it. Most Masons wouldn't bother with it.

and it actually isn't too hard

RobbieTheRobber

rubensni wrote: »

Vets have the highest suicide rate of all jobs, so whatever about the the degree the it must be a super tough life: http://www.independent.ie/health/latest-news/suicide-rate-four-times-higher-for-vets-2243241.html

According to another article its Dentists who have a higher rate of suicide well in america anyways
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2301/do-dentists-have-the-highest-suicide-rate

Procasinator

RobbieTheRobber wrote: »

According to another article its Dentists who have a higher rate of suicide well in america anyways
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2301/do-dentists-have-the-highest-suicide-rate

It's the readily available drugs both have. And Vet's no the exact amount to use, as they are experienced with euthanising animals.

BBC article from 2005: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4310596.stm

starlit

Any science degree especially medicine, dentistry, computing etc other degrees are probably law, nursing and accounting, math related degrees. I have heard that the master degee in business administration is the toughest one yet!