#1. Engineering

Average Hours Full-Time Students Spent Preparing For Class Per Week: 18 hours

Average Hours Faculty Expected Students To Study Per Week: 17 hours

Common Majors: Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Civil Engineering

Finally, engineers have something to cheer. Engineers from a long time maintained that they have the hardest major in the world, but now they have some solid evidence to back their claims. They garnered the top most position on the list by clocking the highest hours of study per week than any other field in the survey.

As per Rambo, students associated with this major have a lot on their plates. The fact that, every paragraph students read and every move they make need to be carefully dissected, for comprehension makes it the hardest degree to earn on the planet.

The notoriously high dropout rate in this field of study is the best example of the hardship that the students have to undergo to earn a degree in this field.

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