Hey Aspirant,

Whatever you learn in Software engineering will help you to get into certain management related positions in technical field where you are supposed to design the project workflow, processflow, requirements analysis, maintanence, configuration management etc., Software Developers will be tasked to do a particular section of code dutring the project, whereas the software engineering graduates are people who designs the workflow and divides the tasks into problems. Whereas hardware engineering in other hand deals with system engineering dealing with the modelling, simulation, integration, development of physical hardware which is requiered to run a software or a machinery or a system.