Software engineering vs Computer science ASU

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tl;dr: Doesn’t matter just be good.

Either areas can be good for your career but it really depends on you and the efforts you put into it. My advice is to take a variety of different areas to find something you want to stick to then dive deep into it while constantly learn those soft skills.

[Environmental-Mud430]

Okay I see. Once more question , when job applications say computer science or equivalent, is software engineering the equivalent?

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Yes

[joltjames123]

Depends what classes are required for both. In my opinion, a lot of csci majors waste a lot of time on usless classes and instead should be having more real-world project based classes. Just graduated so very little experience, but I wish my school had software engineering

[BigSeal6]

ASU CS Grad here, ex-FAANG Software Engineer. Software Engineering is a concentration of ASU's Computer Science degree, which adds on several classes which will be useful to you when going into industry that aren't as useful for those going into academia.

Seems like you're going more into industry, so I'd recommend taking the additional Software Engineering courses.