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by HardyLeung 5743 days ago
It's just a name.

I got an undergrad degree in "Computer Science & Engineering". If you have to nitpick, what I studied was not strictly about "Computer", "Science", or "Engineering". It has bits of computer as in how to build a computer, bits of science as in the mathematics and theories of computation behind it, and bits of engineering as in how to build a large-scale program.

Personally I like "Computer Science" just fine. It would be silly for others to mandate CS to be called "Informatics", "Computer Studies", "Mathematics: Computer", "Computational Art", etc.