>>11413706The difference is CS isn't an academic discipline and those easy classes are all you need to start a company or do your own research or build your own software. Any decently self-driven student of CS will do the vast majority of their learning extra-curricularly. Whereas with engineering degrees you need all that base of knowledge plus access to tools and fabrication labs and raw materials. While CE students are struggling to make a quad drone fly, CS students are making hundreds of thousands developing apps and getting jobs before they even graduate (at least when I was in college).
Yes there are shitty computer science students who do nothing outside of the curriculum who would be hard filtered by an engineering degree, but the degree itself is not the point. When I was applying to jobs out of college with a CS degree it was literally one line on my resume because the company I started and software projects I participated in and the skills I had amassed were far more important.
