I recently graduated from a university which has a Computer Science program in the top 7. Many CS programs have changed, but this isn't a bad thing. Students are still taught the low level details (I had to design hardware and design parts of CPU's, write assembly language programs, write a compiler), but the focus is no longer on these trivial details. The problems facing software engineers in the future are not the issues of managing pointers, having a command on the bits of a word etc. The real challenges will be things like writing programs to run accross many CPU's, mathematical optimization of algorithms, and security concerns. I work with many "real programmers" that were trained between 10 and 20 years ago, and the coding style is simply outdated. I think the real problem is that people are called "programmers" or "software engieers" who go to tech schools or attend small programs where the schooling involves much less rigor. To compare this to the medical world, if a person goes to a tech school and is trained to be a medical technician, they should not be expected to perform as a nurse or doctor.