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It depends on the jurisdiction.
In Alberta, Canada, for example, employers will hire programmers from two distinct pools of educational streams: Computer Scientists and Software Engineers.
CS programs are governed by the faculties of science, software engineers by the schools of engineering.
The software engineers take the same oaths or whatever and belong to the same organization as the other engineers (in Alberta, APEGA) and are subject the same organizational requirements to be able to describe themselves as engineers. They can have the designation revoked the same way a civil engineer could.
Practically speaking, as someone who works with both, I don't see a meaningful difference in the actual work produced by grads of either stream. But at least in my jurisdiction the types of arguments being made don't really hold because it is a regulated professional designation.
From Alberta but not working there anymore. Found out somewhat recently, specifically in regards to Software, APEGA lost their protection on the word Engineer. Again, specifically in regards to Software.
https://www.apega.ca/news/2023/11/06/notification-of-changes-to-the-engineering-and-geoscience-professions-act-regarding-the-title-of-software-engineer