flamedo computer engineering, not science.
bitches love engineers
and by bitches i mean bitches and interviewers.
best decision i made in life.
CS is still an engineering major or at least where I went to school.
lexsI think a lot of people are painting a wrong picture of CS courses here, at least from my experience in Europe.
A lot of people here talk about different programming languages but honestly out of 27 courses I did for my bachelors degree there were 3 courses you might call a programming course and 2 projects that were actual coding but even those didn't teach you how to code but taught you the ideas behind different algorithms. The rest is made up of theoretical computer science, maths and technical computer science for the first 4 semesters. After that I had a few courses I could choose. My topics of choice were Speech Communication, Communication networks, IP-based Multimedia & Perception and a project for a virtual agent. Additionally every student here had to do so called application subjects. These 2 courses must be chosen from non-cs majors i.e transportation. Other than that you have like 2 introduction courses in stuff like management and law.
Regarding work load, especially in the first 4 semesters the work load can be huge. Also having additional maths studies in school will help you out greatly, I'd even say more than having an IT class in school.
Normally you can choose whether or not to take more or less theoretical classes. Plenty of classes also are a mix of them. All depends on the school. You really can't say the work load will be huge for every school.
Basically you're expecting your bias to be the norm, but it's really different depending on the school.