"Computer science" tends to be a pretty ambiguously-defined term, largely because it's a pretty awful term. Everything from AS/400 business programming to combi

"Computer science" tends to be a pretty ambiguously-defined term, largely because it's a pretty awful term. Everything from AS/400 business programming to combinatorial mathematics could be plausibly lumped under "computer science". My anecdotal experience seems to match jerf's: I can't think of any undergraduate computer science program that appeared to favor math over at least moderately practical topics. But I've also not seen any undergraduate computer science program that appeared to be job training. A local community college offers an associate's degree in "computer programming", and their graduates strike me as more obviously employable in the real world than area university computer science graduates. They learn skills that are known to be desired by major area employers, and the program seems to carry more of a "this is all about getting a job" sort of attitude.