All traditional degrees that have "engineering" in title are usually regulated professions in every country, same as those of doctors and lawers. You have to le

All traditional degrees that have "engineering" in title are usually regulated professions in every country, same as those of doctors and lawers. You have to learn the local law that applies to your domain and are qualified and recognized by the state after you get a degree to work locally there. Software engineering is one of the few where word “engineering” is not really engineering. Software engineers neither know the law, not are trained for that, work globally and have no idea what laws apply. This has its own benefits and drawbacks (such as, less protection - anyone can take your job, no matter the degree, but you can also work anywhere). For “software engineers” to be real engineers in order to take any oath, the education system and degrees for software need to change and match those of other local protected engineering degrees, with all benefits and drawbacks of a state recognized profession that can by carried only locally. None of current developers matches any of that. It could be a possible future, but it may also kill talent as know it in software. The software market dynamics of today exist because everyone that can write code can claim they are “software engineers” and they only need to write code to prove that. You cannot claim you are a doctor, just because you think you have skills to heal people and prove that by healing out a few.