[aidenn0]

Where I went to school (Purdue) there was the school of engineering and the school of technology. The theory (at least) was that technology had more of the business side of skills as you suggest.

The downside was that more time on business meant less time on engineering, and you ended up with people that dropped out of the engineering school, combined with people that may not have been able to hack it in the first place, and a tiny minority of people that could have passed in the engineering school.

This means that as a signalling tool (which is a large part of the value of a college degree in the workplace) a technology degree was far less valuable than an engineering degree, which causes a feedback loop to keep the number of people with actual engineering talent low in the Tech school.

This is from my observation of EE vs EET as I knew people in both majors. CS was in the school of science, not engineering so it had no equivalent in the school of technology.