At least at my school, the CS degree was open ended. You take a handful of required corses (intro to programming, algorithms, operating systems) but aside from that, it was up to you to pick the classes which interested you. If you were interested in security, or databases or mobile app development, you could take those classes, but they weren't required.

The things I learned in college which were actually applicable to a software engineering job was:

* A basic ability to program

* Maybe some low level concepts about operating systems. But this is a big maybe, because my operating systems class was pretty early on and was long forgotten 3 years later when I went to apply for a real job.

I learned nothing about version control, the typical client-server model, html/css/javascript, REST, servers, databases, doing a pull request, teamwork, etc. I think those classes may have been available, but I never took them and graduated just fine.

I am not convinced this 4 year CS degree was any more useful than a bootcamp, which teaches you the actual useful things you need to be a junior dev.

I think the difference between CS and a bootcamp is more of intent and followthrough. People often pick bootcamps because of promises of easy money, versus someone who does a 4 year CS degree is possibly more committed and won't give up as easily. But in terms of their actual preparation, I doubt one is better than the other.