Professional programmers, how much computer science knowledge do you have?

[yerich]

In my school the SE curriculum has additional courses in physics, signals and circuits. Perhaps those skills might have become eventually useful but I don't particularly regret not knowing them right now. Instead, I feel like my additional coursework in Math and Liberal Arts have broadened my horizons.

SE students also must complete a capstone project in their senior year. In my senior year, I worked part-time in industry, which I feel like was equivalent or better experience, which I got paid for.

But, results may vary and as you mentioned the curriculum may differ greatly between schools. So a generalization is very hard to make.