I suspect that the impact of degree choice (at least between these degrees) on career success is largely mediated by the impact of degree choice on your own enjoyment and satisfaction with what you’re learning.
Which do you find more interesting?
(While I’m making unevidenced guesses, here are some more. 1. Computer science degrees are probably harder to get into and harder to do well in, and even if they aren’t they’re probably perceived as being so, and a large part of how education affects your career is that employers use it as a rough gauge of how smart you are. So if you’re hoping for “high-end” software jobs, and if you expect you would do well in a computer science course, that might be a better choice. 2. You might try to supplement whatever official learning you do with something on the side that broadens your knowledge. Doing a software engineering degree? Read up on computer science topics. Doing a computer science degree? Get involved in an open-source software project, or build some things yourself and put them on Github, or something. 3. The prestige of the institution you attend probably matters, at least if it’s a good one.)
I suspect that the impact of degree choice (at least between these degrees) on career success is largely mediated by the impact of degree choice on your own enjoyment and satisfaction with what you’re learning.
Which do you find more interesting?
(While I’m making unevidenced guesses, here are some more. 1. Computer science degrees are probably harder to get into and harder to do well in, and even if they aren’t they’re probably perceived as being so, and a large part of how education affects your career is that employers use it as a rough gauge of how smart you are. So if you’re hoping for “high-end” software jobs, and if you expect you would do well in a computer science course, that might be a better choice. 2. You might try to supplement whatever official learning you do with something on the side that broadens your knowledge. Doing a software engineering degree? Read up on computer science topics. Doing a computer science degree? Get involved in an open-source software project, or build some things yourself and put them on Github, or something. 3. The prestige of the institution you attend probably matters, at least if it’s a good one.)