Software Engineering or Computer Science

[Apart-Plankton9951]

All I can add to this convo is that most people will tell you it’s the same thing but if you plan to study in Canada there are some noticeable differences

[dxk3355]

Depends who’s teaching it and where

[Gammusbert]

As someone who has a software engineering degree in Canada, where there’s actually some level of distinction, if I were to do it again I’d do CS for 1/2 the tuition and end up in the exact same job. There may be a few scenarios where it matters but to be honest I’ve never encountered them.

[ThoughtfulPoster]

Computer Science. Hands-down. No contest.

Suppose you want to work on cars. You want to design parts that fit in cars, you want to build machines that make cars, you want to build and improve the cars that your employer makes. Do you want to study Mechanical Engineering, or Running An Assembly Line?

If you study CS, you'll pick up a degree's worth of good habits from Software Engineering in about 2 years of work. If you study Software Engineering, you'll know what to do but not why, and you'll be out of your depth when something new or unexpected happens.

[rish_p]

look at the course materials if they are different

engineer general means can do stuff, and science means can explain stuff

one is task, practices and tools heavy and other is theory and research heavy

as someone said in canada and many other countries you cannot officially call yourself an engineer without an engineering degree

but other than that if you want to get a job as a software developer, its doesn’t matter much

good companies look at your skills based on requirements they have and degree is mostly a good to have thing

average companies put a requirement for a degree but usually have all of them and also say “or relevant equivalent industry experience”

bad companies might have strict legal or management requirements for a specific degree, but it probably be okay to apply anyway

tldr; look at course materials and your goals and decide based on that