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Claims have been making the rounds on social networking sites such as Facebook that invoke the well-respected name of the world's most famous adjudicator, the Guinness Book of World Records. According to numerous posts on such venues, various courses of study have been officially proclaimed the toughest and holders of such accreditations should post proud announcements of same: Courses various Facebook users have trumpeted as the toughest, based on number of exams, assignments, and years to complete: Though we hate to burst anyone's bubble, short and sweet, the Guinness Book of World Records does not rank toughness of courses. Any claim that it does is pure invention, likely woven into the hoax in an effort to impart a tinge of authority to the assertion. Says Guinness of the rumor: As to which actually is the hardest to earn, trying to work out which degree or accreditation would hold that honor is an impossible task, in that so many competing factors would have to be weighed. Would it be number of exams? Number of assignments one is graded upon? Hours in the classroom? Hours of required work experience? Difficulty of material? Number of years in that discipline of study? Academic requirements to even be admitted to that discipline of study? There's no clear answer to the toughest degree question, although three that are commonly pointed to as being among the most difficult are medicine, engineering, and architecture.
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