Interestingly, colleagues and HS friends who were mainly/solely interested in the design/implementation of software, computer programming, and examining the foundational mathematical theories used in those areas tended to avoid most CE programs or CS programs in engineering division due to greater emphasis on studying Electrical Engineering topics they felt weren’t relevant to what they wanted to pursue.
On the flipside, those who leaned more towards an interest in EE related topics or at least open to exploring it gravitated to CE programs/CS programs in engineering division.
This split also seemed to go back to a period before there were CS departments. For instance, some of the older CS Profs my friends had received their PhDs in Math or Electrical Engineering in the '60s as CS departments didn’t exist in the vast majority of universities back then.