It's rare to start "engineering" non-trivial projects right out of college. Experience is very important to software engineering. So while one may be able to ge

It's rare to start "engineering" non-trivial projects right out of college. Experience is very important to software engineering. So while one may be able to get a "software engineering" degree, typically one starts out working as a programmer, UI designer, help-desk, tech writer/documenter, and/or tester. Thus, education for the first step of this journey should be planned out also.