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What is the least technical major at the Institute nowadays? Years ago IM and IE were the two least technical but even those required College Algebra, etc, Calculus, Chemistry, Physics, Eng Drawing, etc, etc. You may have taken 18 quarter credit hours but the labs put you in class a lot longer. I think I got out with something like 220 Quarter Hours. How about an update? Thanks.
 
yellowjacket said:
What is the least technical major at the Institute nowadays? Years ago IM and IE were the two least technical but even those required College Algebra, etc, Calculus, Chemistry, Physics, Eng Drawing, etc, etc. You may have taken 18 quarter credit hours but the labs put you in class a lot longer. I think I got out with something like 220 Quarter Hours. How about an update? Thanks.
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You're really showing your age with this post old boy.
 
management, international affairs, science technology and communications.
 
Science, Technology, and Culture, Kyle. :)

But, yeah, anything in the Ivan Allen College is probably the least technical.
 
yellowjacket said:
What is the least technical major at the Institute nowadays? Years ago IM and IE were the two least technical but even those required College Algebra, etc, Calculus, Chemistry, Physics, Eng Drawing, etc, etc. You may have taken 18 quarter credit hours but the labs put you in class a lot longer. I think I got out with something like 220 Quarter Hours. How about an update? Thanks.
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Your answer is not Management. Obviously it's in the liberal arts through the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.

Management's certainly not rigorously analytical, but you're not guaranteed your A's and B's if you don't put in a little effort. Another thing that exposes Management students and the engineering students who take the management core classes and electives are the occasional writing assignments that require broad based, business planning-style thinking. Many wannabe business minds (engineering students and the management students) are exposed as lacking a business sense in the senior level discussion-based business classes.

Any swift thought that immediately kicks the College of Management to the bottom rung is ignorant. However, I will say this. There are plenty of dumbasses in the CoM, and a good number of failed and major changed/former engineering students. Those who change their major from engineering to management are the worst. Most, but not all, typically wear their academic apathy on their shoulders. I wish these losers would just leave our school if their original intention of engineering didn't work out.
 
STAC, HTS, INTA, PUBP

I give ECON a little credit since need to do a fair amount of calculus, statistics, and analytical work at the higher levels

That said, everyone has to take two maths, two lab sciences, one CS course, one related 'computing' course,
 
If I recall (under quarters) the 3rd required Math class for management majors had calculus in it as well.
 
The liberal arts majors are less technical, but require more time than management. STaC actually requires a good bit of reading as well as numerous design projects. I've honestly never known a slacker in Tech's "liberal arts" majors, while I've known plenty of M-train passengers who are smart enough for engineering but decided to get easy B's in management classes instead.
 
I've taken some INTA classes and they've been extremely easy. There have been a few athletes in those. Other than that, I'd say STAC, Management, and HTS.
 
Take all that is said as generalizations, there are many exceptions, I had friends who are engineering-to-management transfers who are doing extremely well at their jobs now in addition to some liberal arts majors who do hardcore media or computer game programming.

I am not saying that what has been said is wrong but that there are exceptions, and more to this.

Also, management school has been gaining in rankings pretty well in the last few years.

(Just for bias consideration, I am an engineering major.)
 
I think that management should be considered the easiest. While many do argue its not as easy as an ivan allen major I would disagree. Management is the most transfered into major and I think the academic competition in management is a lot less than in ivan allen majors because most ivan allen majors come in as that and have more motivation than the management students who switched into that major. I also think STAC could be put in the running with management.
 
That might have been true in past but nowadays Tech management has pretty good ranking/cost ratio, i.e. good value for the price, so I would doubt there being less competition there.
 
I took Intro to Textiles (with QB Mike Kelly) way back when. It was an easy A elective. The funny thing is that for 25 years now I've used the materials information in that course probably more than any other.
 
Many people assume all the Ivan Allen LibArts majors are easy. Not true. Liberal Arts majors (at some schools, like Tech) usually require as much reading, writing, research and time as Science based majors. The wild card is sometimes, more often than not, LibArts majors are based on perfecting a talent, such as a Writing, Music or Art major.
 
yellowjacket said:
What is the least technical major at the Institute nowadays? Years ago IM and IE were the two least technical but even those required College Algebra, etc, Calculus, Chemistry, Physics, Eng Drawing, etc, etc. You may have taken 18 quarter credit hours but the labs put you in class a lot longer. I think I got out with something like 220 Quarter Hours. How about an update? Thanks.
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Mechanical Engineering. Easy A's.
Then why did I make so many C's?
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cyptomcat said:
Take all that is said as generalizations, there are many exceptions, I had friends who are engineering-to-management transfers who are doing extremely well at their jobs now in addition to some liberal arts majors who do hardcore media or computer game programming.

I am not saying that what has been said is wrong but that there are exceptions, and more to this.

Also, management school has been gaining in rankings pretty well in the last few years.

(Just for bias consideration, I am an engineering major.)
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I completely agree. All these opinions (including my own) were generalizations. I've known genius engineering students who would've flunked out if they had to take English classes all day. It's not because they're harder (they're not...), but just because their minds don't work that way.

To each his own, I always say.
 
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