<p>I am going to piggyback on Reactor’s post…being a software engineer for now 24 years.</p>
<p>DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME ON A PURE SOFTWARE ENGINEERING DEGREE. IT IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST MONEY GENERATING COLLEGE MAJORS FOR SCHOOLS OUT THERE.</p>
<p>Software engineering is basically the various phases to produce software. To ME, there is NO REASON to give 15-week semester courses on EACH PHASE of the software engineering life-cycle.</p>
<p>On top of that, each employer has their OWN flavor of software engineering, which THEY WILL TEACH you. All you need is ONE all-encompassing “Software Engineering” course in your CS or Math/CS major.</p>
<p>Why?</p>
<p>It is MUCH EASIER for an employer to teach your software engineering. The employer does not have time to teach you, operating systems, networks, database theory, data structures, object-oriented design/programming, cryptology or parallel computation.</p>