I say CS is better: Although both have programming as there main course CS is broad For example you could learn programming languages in SE but in CS you learn how to create'em. And CS is 4 yrs while SE goes up to 5 yrs ... finally at the end of the year: If you study SE you're scientifically called developer, in case of CS you'll go by the name programmer. And logically (relatively) it's easy for programmers to develop softwares while it would take some more aid for developers to program some devices. ... Just so you know CS is harder than SE.