I don't think a "pure" software engineering degree really needs to be four years. What you're talking about sounds an awful lot like the program I went into in

I don't think a "pure" software engineering degree really needs to be four years. What you're talking about sounds an awful lot like the program I went into initially at a community college. They taught you some coding in a few popular languages, some database concepts and sent you on your way. I dropped out after a year and found a job. I ended up going to a four year program after a while. Turns out, a lot of the good jobs in software engineering require understanding those peaky abstract fundamentals.