If you put serious effort into your class projects outside of what is required (https://thume.ca/ray-tracer-site/ https://thume.ca/ray-tracer-site/), you can ce

If you put serious effort into your class projects outside of what is required (https://thume.ca/ray-tracer-site/ https://thume.ca/ray-tracer-site/), you can certainly put that in your portfolio (that project is absolutely crazy). That said, I agree with you that more students should take "software engineering" degrees if they have trouble building things outside of class, plus that universities should make it clearer that a CS degree != a job offer from Google.