I found math depends on location as well. I moved around in the 90's during my University years; what was billed as exactly the same 3rd year networking course:

I found math depends on location as well. I moved around in the 90's during my University years; what was billed as exactly the same 3rd year networking course: * University of Toronto, ON, Canada: HEAVY math; queuing theory; no computer lab, no mention on any specific stack or technology * University of Athabasca, AB, Canada: No math; discussion on OSI Layers, TCIP/IP, SMTP, Ethernet; gateways routers switches, virtualization; lots of fun computer labs. Not technology specific - it wasn't doing Cisco certs or anything. But good working understanding of what's happening in networking world. I always felt one university taught working software engineers; other university taught the dozen people worldwide who need to create next IPv8 :D