Computer Science and Engineering Scope

I imagine you will be pursuing engineering, and are seeking which of the degrees is more beneficial for you. CSE and IT have almost 90 percent same subjects for engineering. All the important computer-related CA, OS or microprocessors. Only some hardware labs for CSE and software labs for IT differ. CSE is older stream, it has been released rather recently. So there's just a hype for CSE being better. Old is not always gold. Now, the important part comes where software engineers are most desperate for. The money. Placements really don't matter which stream you are from, at the end they are all looking for your coding skills. Both are equally eligible for all software companies. Even in terms of research, having CSE doesn't offer you any special preference. In the end it comes down to what project you have done. I would advice to not for what stream you choose, they are both the same things with different names and slight difference in the undergrad level. I am talking with the reference to engineering education in India. What matters is where you will be doing your course from, there which of the departments has better faculty members and if they have some glorious records. There might be differences at the postgraduate level. But I won't put one before another.

ECE is about electronics and how the different electrical components (Microprocessor, RAM etc.). Communicate with each other. It has more Physics in it. There is a little programming involved but not much. CSE deals with telling these components what to do and when to do it; by programming them. It has a lot of logic involved and Maths too. Eg: In designing a tablet/phone, all the hardware work is done by the ECE people and all the software stuff (making the different components like RAM, processor talk to each other, and the Operating system) is done by the CSE people. Both are inter-dependent. Placement wise, ECE is a little better than CSE as it has more offers in the public sector (government jobs). Also ECE is considered to be somewhat of a evergreen branch. If you do specialisation (eg M.Tech in VLSI design) after doing B.Tech in ECE, there is a great demand in the market for such people. ECE person can also get a job in IT; but this is not the same level as a job a CSE engineer can get. Eg: Intel, AMD, BHEL (and many other government companies)
CSE also has very good placements and the avg salary is higher than ECE. But it is not an evergreen branch. Eg: Google, Microsoft, Infosys, etc. People say that ECE is more difficult than CSE. But I don't really believe that; it all comes down to your passion. If you love CSE, you will find ECE hard and vice-versa. In the end, I would say it all comes down to interest. Yes I agree ECE has an edge over CSE when it comes to placements. But if you excel in CSE and have true passion for it, you will probably do better than most ECE people also. It is on your interest what you want to go for.