[whytookay]

I don't mean to be rude, but that's terribly generalizing. At least at my university, the difficulty is comparable, and the largest difference between a Software Engineering degree, and a Computer Science (well, BSC in the department of CS) degree is that software engineering has a slightly larger emphasis on hardware.

Hell, many of the courses have huge overlaps in material, and both programs allow the courses in the other programs to be substituted for each other. I'm not arguing that CPSC majors should be allowed to call themselves engineers, but I believe you might be mistaken as to how different the two programs/fields may be.