I think getting a professional IR title is harder than ACCA and is also rarer. But if it's just getting a B.Eng and then work in an MNC where they call you an engineer then that's much easier.

Good that it works out for you eventually. I forsee I might be back to do these tradesman lines after retirement.

Which of the civil, electrical and electronic, chemical, and mechanical engineering disciplines is the most difficult? Because of the math and physics involved, I believe electrical engineering is the most difficult. For example, in electromagnetic fields theory, the double and triple integrals used to understand the behavior of charged particles, which cannot be seen with the naked eye, truly required good imagination and logical thinking. Artificial intelligence algorithms, such as deep neural networks used in digital image processing and analysis, necessitate a strong mathematical foundation to comprehend machine learning and deep learning techniques.

Consider convolution neural networks. Understanding how the neural network can learn the features of handwritten numbers independently already requires a significant amount of brain energy. We haven't discussed how to create a novel convolution neural network architecture capable of automatically detecting cancer cells in medical images. The mere mention of artificial intelligence puts many people off (not for interested people).

That is only introduction to one or two topics in one engineering field…

U are missing the point which is engineering harder than acca.  Not about work or making money.

Comparing degree to professional course is the DUMEBEST thing related to educational comparison that I've heard so far.....

The difficulty varies a lot across unis because if you talk about graduating from top engineering schools ... then yea... it is hard as hell but we all know there are many engineering schools give out degrees like paper.... especially those local unis / local private unis that have no name....

professional qualification on the other hand.. is standardize... it is where no one who got the ACCA could say they have gone through the course harder than the other person.... AT LEAST for their generation cause most of the time course structure changes generation to generation (might get harder or easier...).....

What I can confirm is... those who graduate with an engineering degree but did not end up working as an engineering and did not get the IR title means they are useless shit who got rejected by their own field.... a.k.a failures in their field or took the degree cause they thought they are smart but they are not..... think about it.... if they are good at their studies.... they would already be working in their field of study... but I saw lots of "engineering graduates" ... "Law graduates".... working at financial fields as PFC/marketers or even FMCG etc....

I personally know many Engineering grads who wants to switch to accounting field or financial field but cannot pass a single ACCA/CFA/CFP paper.... not surprising though cause if they are good students.. they already be working in their field instead of trying to strive in other fields....

I would place these people only 1 step higher than the hobbies degree people for being able to pass these legit degrees (some effort is made to gain their degrees)... hobbies degree grads are still the losers of all the grads in the world

Yeah. Still missing the point of discussion. Which is which is harder between those two.