在CMU 校方统计各门课程实际每周学习的小时数，我把各个系科每个年级选取一门有代表的大课（皆为那个系科那个年级Unit最多的课之一），得到下面统计：
English系：
76-101 (INTERPRETN & ARGMNT) = 7.3 hours/week
76-210 (BANNED BOOKS) = 6.1 hours/week
76-306 (EDITING & PUBLISH) = 3.9 hours/week
76-460 (BEGIN FICTION WRKSHP) = 6.7 hours/week
Total FCE = 24.0 hours / week
Economics系：
73-103 (PRINCPLES OF MACROEC) = 7.9 hours/week
73-240 (INTERMD MACROECONOMC) = 8.3 hours/week
73-374 (ECONOMETRICS II) = 9.6 hours/week
73-427 (SUST ENRG & ENV ECON) = 6.6 hours/week
Total FCE = 32.4 hours / week
Biology系：
03-151 (HONORS MOD BIOLOGY) = 10.1 hours/week
03-220 (GENETICS) = 8.1 hours/week
03-320 (CELL BIOLOGY) = 10.1 hours/week
03-439 (INTRO TO BIOPHYSICS) = 8.0 hours/week
Total FCE = 36.3 hours / week
Chemistry系：
09-105 (INTRO MOD CHEMSTRY I) = 9.3 hours/week
09-219 (MODERN ORGANIC CHEM) = 10.0 hours/week
09-321 (LAB III: MOL DSN SYN) = 12.6 hours/week
09-403 (CMY ADDIC) = 7.0 hours/week
Total FCE = 38.9 hours / week
Math系：
21-120 (DIFFERENTIAL INT CAL) = 9.0 hours/week
21-241 (MATRC & LINR TRNSF) = 9.4 hours/week
21-355 (PRINCPL REAL ANLYS I) = 10.3 hours/week
21-484 (GRAPH THEORY) = 10.7 hours/week
Total FCE = 39.4 hours / week
Physics系：
33-104 (EXPERIMNTL PHYSICS) = 7.8 hours/week
33-231 (PHYSICAL ANALYSIS) = 11.1 hours/week
33-341 (THERMAL PHYSICS I) = 10.6 hours/week
33-446 (ADV QUANTUM PHYSC II) = 9.9 hours/week
Total FCE = 39.4 hours / week
Arts and Entertainment系：
60-125 (INTRO TO 3D ANIMATN) = 10.9 hours/week
60-212 (INT: CREATIVE CODING) = 12.7 hours/week
53-371 (RPG WRITING WORKSHOP) = 9.9 hours/week
53-471 (GAME DGN, PROTYPING) = 16.3 hours/week
Total FCE = 49.8 hours / week
Electric & Computer Engineering系：
18-100 (INTRO ELEC COMP ENG) = 10.0 hours/week
18-220 (ELETRONC DEVC ANL CR) = 10.5 hours/week
18-344 (COMP SYS HW/SW INT) = 12.2 hours/week
18-422 (DIGL INTGRD CIRC DES) = 26.4 hours/week
Total FCE = 59.1 hours / week
Computer Science系：
15-122 (PRIN IMPRTV COMPTATN) = 15.0 hours/week
15-213 (INTR CMPUTER SYSTEMS) = 15.9 hours/week
15-319 (CLOUD COMPUTING) = 20.8 hours/week
15-410 (OP SYS DESIGN & IMPL) = 25.0 hours/week
Total FCE = 76.7 hours / week
英文系的课程最轻松，而计算机系课程最繁重。
而且很多同学反映，
计算机课程挂科的最多，得高分的最少，很多同学的作业到期交不了，因为程序通不过。
而 文科课程，几乎没有不得A的，而且作业都能准时交。
理科（数理化生）处于两者之间。
另外，艺术娱乐系也挺累，很多作用和项目非常花时间。
不知道是否是 所有大学的普遍现象，还是 CMU 特有的现象
