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In my undergrad at University of Michigan it was combined. I do not remember if we covered it but I was already exposed to industry at that time and was far more advanced in the practical than the rest of the class.

The benefits of algorithm selection only really started to become apparent after years of experience and know-how in what _exactly_ an application requires or intends to be used as. Knowledge that is skipped at all levels of computer science education.