[bjz_]

I wonder if part of the problem is some universities watering down core, foundational, beautiful CS to try and make it 'practical'. They end up with a course labelled 'CS', but is actually a poorly implemented, behind-the times, irrelevant software engineering course that is the worst of both worlds...

[kendallpark]

Oh, I agree. My school tried very hard to NOT do this. I remember I was concerned about the lack of "practical" CS education, but alumni reassured me that whatever I needed to know after graduation would be picked up very easily. They were right.