What's the hardest degree? Let's say we're talking

>>8751205
Geology

>>8751205
>Normies would say it's something in health sciences 'cause it's the hardest to get in (pharmacy, medicine, etc.) but that's just because they are more popular and receive more inscriptions.

Actually Clinical Psych PhD (not PsyD) is more difficult than med school etc...

I'd probably say something in pure math, but I don't know more math than undergrad abstract algebra and analysis, so I wouldn't be able to say what particular area.

>>8751217
difficult to get accepted to*/selective*

This is sort of a pointless question since the difficulty of PhD. programs will vary considerably within a field. Pretty sure that getting a PhD. in Virology from Harvard will be harder than getting a PhD. in Physics from Reading university, like that retard who killed himself after not being able to find work outside of a call center.

>>8751255
Got a link to the story?

Anything well established is hard. Physics and math are 'easy', just invent a new model and call it science. Don't get offended, easy is relative here. Economics would be a hard field. Complex things you need to model in your head, just to understand it, and you need to overcome your own prejudices about how you think things should work in order to be objective.

>>8751205
Gender Studies because it makes no sense.

>>8751220
I think OP means difficult to study not difficult to get to study

>>8751255
Well science PhDs are worthless without the proper pedigree to get you into a postdoc or other related job.

>>8751302
Economists are just failed mathematicians kek

>>8751302
in a way; the more established a field the less new and exciting things that are left to discover.

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>>8751274
>>8751316
>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2304096/Graduate-physics-PhD-31-fell-death-block-flats-taking-job-centre-qualified-for.html

>An academic jumped off scaffolding to his death when he was only able to find a job in a call centre after finishing his doctorate, an inquest heard today.

>Dr Philip Elliott, 31, who had recently completed a PhD in physics at Reading University, was seen on the sixth floor of an apartment block in west London just after 11am on January 27 this year.

>Police tried to call him down but he fell from the property in Cromwell Street, Kensington, an hour later, the hearing was told.