Mathematics has a lot more prestige because it is exotic for the average person. Most people associate computer science with computers, word, excel etc. Imho,

Mathematics has a lot more prestige because it is exotic for the average person. Most people associate computer science with computers, word, excel etc. Imho, SWE and “Computation Science” should be separated. You can treat the former as a computer oriented form of engineering, making it rigorous and produce SWEs that are actually good, and in the latter, you can put all the theoretical things and treat it as the branch of math it rightfully deserves to be.