I’ve noticed that there is considerable variability across schools in terms of what they require from a software engineering major.
In Canada, the software engineering major is typically seen as more prestigious than CS because typically the SE major is the CS major + a bunch of software project courses. In Cal Poly SLO, SE is more restricted than CS and SE majors have high earnings but they take as many or more software + CS classes than CS majors at the top CS schools and work on a lot of programming projects. Elsewhere, yes, SE seems closer to an IT major or somewhere between a CS and IT major.