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Maths.....
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Law...
you're going to get lots of different answers. None of the traditional degrees (Maths, Law, Physics etc.) are in any real sense much harder than eachother
I should imagine Maths
At warwick, definitely maths.
nayiseda
Law...
you're going to get lots of different answers. None of the traditional degrees (Maths, Law, Physics etc.) are in any real sense much harder than eachother



Says the A-level student :s-smilie:
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I would assume either Maths, a Language or a science.
Reply 7
You'd struggle to find many courses that aren't maths, languages or sciences ^^
I'd say Maths, though arguably Maths+Physics has a slightly greater workload.
i dunno bout warwick

but from teachers at our sixth form, i would say engineering is a very full on course... like 9 to 5 in lectures or doing practical stuff each day (well week days) ... not sure if its 'mentally' as hard as some other subjects though...
the workload involved in a medical degree is always huge..... graduate entry, which is what they run at warwick even more so.
estel
You'd struggle to find many courses that aren't maths, languages or sciences ^^
I'd say Maths, though arguably Maths+Physics has a slightly greater workload.


greater workload doesn't equate to greater difficulty. Some of the modules that are core for maths but optional for maths+phys (or morse for that matter) are extremely riguorous and challenging. Maths+phys students have the option (and unsurprisingly make use of it) of avoiding a number of these.
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I would also say that maths at warwick is the hardest degree.
Reply 12
straight maths

or any maths based course

math+econ :frown:
id imagine that its Maths followed by Economics. But then again its a very subjective question. Id do better at Maths than at something like Psychology (which some consider easier) etc..
It differs from person to person. I doubt Stephen Hawking would say Maths is the hardest undergraduate degree at Warwick.
abrp
id imagine that its Maths followed by Economics.

That's not surprising considering Economics is basically just maths the higher up you get.
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abrp
id imagine that its Maths followed by Economics.


Well, Maths, Eco, but I would put MORSE in between, (not yet based on my personal experience, as it's hard to say after 2 weeks, but on opinions of students of 2 - 3 year)
Reply 17
The answer to the question can basically be said to be 'whatever the above poster is studying'..

There's more than a hint of bias in this post for you to get any real answer from it :p:
I am sure that most maths students would find my degree more difficult and challenging for them than thier maths degree...:rolleyes:

The question is far more complex than the simple 'oh X degree is the hardest' makes it sound.
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happydinosaur
I am sure that most maths students would find my degree more difficult and challenging for them than thier maths degree...:rolleyes:
Maybe, but the thread starter said:
What, in general, is the hardest subject at undergraduate level at warwick??


nayiseda
None of the traditional degrees (Maths, Law, Physics etc.) are in any real sense much harder than eachother

What's that based on?

I would have thought the opposite. i.e. that it's likely all subjects aren't equally difficult and hence some are more difficult than others.

The Orientalist
greater workload doesn't equate to greater difficulty. Some of the modules that are core for maths but optional for maths+phys (or morse for that matter) are extremely riguorous and challenging. Maths+phys students have the option (and unsurprisingly make use of it) of avoiding a number of these.

Agreed. I have been thinking about a similar thing recently.

If the hardest degree is between straight Maths or a degree that uses maths a lot, then I think Maths would be hardest. My reasoning being that all of these subjects (Maths, Maths with Computing, Maths with Economics, Economics, Engineering, Physics, MathPhys) probably do the core maths stuff: differentiation, integration, trig, statistics, etc. All of which is arguably, relatively easy.

What separates the degrees is what they do with this. Maths takes what they know and keeps extending it, so things get harder and keep getting harder. Other subjects may do this (for example, Physics will look at multidimensional integration) but not as much as Maths, so what else do these other subjects while Maths students are busy extending their theories? They learn their core modules. Physics will do electricity, waves, mechanics. Economics will do macro, micro, politics, etc. These being basic modules are presumably relatively easy (compared to the relatively advanced material that the Maths students will be doing, which is more theory on what they originally learned).

I may not be making much sense, who knows.

A similar argument is based on how many later year modules are dependent on early year modules. It's rare to find 3rd year Maths modules which have no prerequisites. However, looking at other degree's modules, they seem to have more modules that aren't dependent on anything (i.e. it could have been a first year module, because it's that basic, but because a lot of what they teach is basic, these modules appear all over the syllabus, rather than things getting progressively harder).

Maths and Law however, are a little harder to compare (but looking at a modules prerequisites may be a good indicator here too).

You really begin to wonder about the difficult of a degree with less than 10 hours per week though :\