alt Hacker News> The ultimate goal of university education is to raise researchers
The head of my CS department was quoted as saying, "our job is to produce researchers!"
This was in the context of a conversation about why the program wasn't better suited for industry.
It turned out that in our department 7% of students ended up going into research.
So he was openly declaring his intention to disregard the needs of 93% of his students.
(I'm not arguing against research, or on going deep with the theory. I just thought that was kind of funny, and it seemed a bit wrong to me.)
CS is special in that it is about the science, and not the application. They'll teach you mostly theory. That's why some universities/countries have a separate degree called "SW Engineering".
Other engineering departments are not as fussy about the distinction.