<p>In various schools, I've seen it under both colleges: L&S and Engineering.
What do you think?
Or, would it only be engineering if it were CSE or something?</p>
<p>In some colleges it is under Engineering, in others maybe Business or even Math.
In the best CS programs it stands alone!
CSE should be under engineering though.</p>
<p>Yeah, I would consider CSE under engineering too.</p>
<p>In my university its under Engineering but I think that's because they don't have any other place to put it under and they dont have a strong enough program to put it by itself.</p>
<p>What about CS, not CSE.</p>
<p>yeah im confused about this too. I was going to apply to the school of science at purdue because i want to major in computer science, however i learned that its not their comp sci program that is high ranked it is actually downright low-tier, it is their computer engineering program that is high ranked. now im confused to say the least. any help? this made me rethink all of the schools i was applying to now because i dont know what the standards are.</p>
<p>At my school it is in its own department.</p>
<p>I would say (being in the field) that parts of it (and not just the software engineering part) are engineering and parts of it less so. At my undergrad institution it was in the engineering school. At my current one it is run jointly by the engineering and arts & sciences schools, and the undergrads can pick which school to affiliate with (with slight changes in the curriculum).</p>
<p>I think its engineering, look at the definition on engineering and it seems to fit.</p>
<p>We have a class at my school that goes over this topic. A whole class.</p>
<p>Computer Science is more science. Computer Systems Engineering (or EE w/Computer Science) is engineering. As such, engineering will deal more with practical development and thinking, whereas science will be more geared towards research. Computer Science =/= Engineering, although you might consider their programming classes a type of engineering.</p>
<p>Computer Science ultimately yields computer scientists. They deal with a lot of theory, database, algorithms and the like in fields such as AI, web development, etc. They do apply those concepts, but their upper level classes are intensive theory, which may be why CS is very tough towards the end.</p>
<p>Computer Systems Engineers (or EE w/CS) yields engineers. They deal with the application of computer science, if you will, but the CS without theory. CSE are the ones in which their curriculum will typically have software engineering classes which is different from CS programming classes. Software engineering will go through different aspects of software development which includes planning and programming in different phases in such; this is different from CS classes where they give you problem sets you solve, and so it's not exactly structured in the project manner that CSE software engineering goes through.</p>
<p>...essentially scientist vs. engineer. Engineering is a hard physical science (not hard as in difficulty, but more like the opposite of a soft, life science). They apply scientific concepts in practical applications, in which those scientific concepts are what scientists strive to explore and form. There are some overlaps, but the ultimate end goals of scientists and engineers are different. Engineers seek to "build" new things, scientists seek to discover. Both of them reinforce each other, so it just comes down to what you are more interested in.</p>