[Dewie]

What do they think about math majors? It's similarly "soft" in that it is a study of entirely intangible and abstract concepts - nothing to do with manly machinery or contraptions at all.

What do they think about electrical engineers? Circuit board sewers...?

[mechg]

As someone who went to school for ME.

The general opinion was:

ME was harder than CS.

Math majors were unlikely to get a job.

Electrical and Chemical engineering were harder than ME (especially chemical)

Civil engineering was a joke. (Probably because our statics and mechanics of materials classes were so easy in comparison with ME classes).

These aren't my opinions just some observations of general opinions of undergrads.

[tonyarkles]

That definitely matches what seemed to be the prevailing perceptions for me when I was in undergrad. Whether or not they're actually accurate... hard to say, but that's how the people around me generally felt.