Software Engineering or CS?

[vtqanh]

I'm graduating from CS next semester. I plan on continuing to graduate study. Which one would you choose? CS or Software Engineering.
If you're in either one right now, how is it?
Thanks

 

[yoda291]

it might be different in my school, but isn't SE part of CS studies?

 

[vtqanh]

Originally posted by: yoda291
it might be different in my school, but isn't SE part of CS studies?

well, in my school, you can do a CS with concentration in Software Engineering, or you can do Software Engineering, which focuses more on designing large-scale programs

 

[neilm]

Do the one that suits YOU, read up on the course details, compare, then choose.

I'm doing Software Engineering, over at the University I attend.. CS and SE share half the modules.

 

[OREOSpeedwagon]

CS, the game kicks ass

 

[yoda291]

Originally posted by: neilm
Do the one that suits YOU, read up on the course details, compare, then choose.

I'm doing Software Engineering, over at the University I attend.. CS and SE share half the modules.

Correction: Do the one that suits the professors you learn from. The greatest course ever conceived does nothing unless the professor can execute its delivery effectively. This should have been learned in ugrad.

 

[vtqanh]

Originally posted by: neilm
Do the one that suits YOU, read up on the course details, compare, then choose.

I'm doing Software Engineering, over at the University I attend.. CS and SE share half the modules.

Why did you choose SE over CS?

 

[cchen]

What do u wanna do for a career? A MS in CS is way more theoretical than SE... and usually a MS in CS prepares you more for research type stuff rather than development

 

[Stealth1024]

at RIT SE is a huge program, right up there with CE: http://www.se.rit.edu/

check out the course flowchart: http://www.se.rit.edu/docs/courses.pdf

Since I'm a CE major, check out our course sequence also, interesting to note how the first 2 years are pretty much the same: http://www.ce.rit.edu/academic/dual/RIT_CE_BSMS_flowchart.pdf

 

[KahunaHube]

SE is where hte moneys at these days if that helps

 

[neilm]

Originally posted by: yoda291

Originally posted by: neilm
Do the one that suits YOU, read up on the course details, compare, then choose.

I'm doing Software Engineering, over at the University I attend.. CS and SE share half the modules.

Correction: Do the one that suits the professors you learn from. The greatest course ever conceived does nothing unless the professor can execute its delivery effectively. This should have been learned in ugrad.

Uh? You can't tell how a lecturer teaches until you have enrolled into a course, or sneek into one in your free time (and how many of us do that seriously). At the end of it all, you're right, you need a decent lecturer to do the job right, but you got to have some interest in the subject or you'll find the teaching boring regarding of whomever is teaching you. Also, if a professor doesn't have a interest in the course he/she teaches then he/she should find another job imo, cause the students have a right to complain that type of thing.

Originally posted by: vtqanh

Originally posted by: neilm
Do the one that suits YOU, read up on the course details, compare, then choose.

I'm doing Software Engineering, over at the University I attend.. CS and SE share half the modules.

Why did you choose SE over CS?

I chose SE only because I was doing a SE related course previously, or it would have been which ever one the dart landed on. SE is more programming, while CS gives stuff like networking. They really are very similar though, so don't stress to much about it.

 

[vtqanh]

Originally posted by: Stealth1024
at RIT SE is a huge program, right up there with CE: <a href="http://www.se.rit.edu/">http://www.se.rit.edu/</A>

check out the course flowchart: <a href="http://www.se.rit.edu/docs/courses.pdf">http://www.se.rit.edu/docs/courses.pdf</A>

Since I'm a CE major, check out our course sequence also, interesting to note how the first 2 years are pretty much the same: <a href="http://www.ce.rit.edu/academic/dual/RIT_CE_BSMS_flowchart.pdf">http://www.ce.rit.edu/academic/dual/RIT_CE_BSMS_flowchart.pdf</A>

in my school. SE does the same 4 years with CS. They don't have such thing as bachelor in Software Engineering.

 

[vtqanh]

grrhh. double post!