Most high end professional fields have some sort of certification process, the difficulty of which roughly corresponds to the level of damage a bad professional can do.
Doctors, lawyers, accountants, architects, and engineers can easily destroy or end lives in the course of their work and the certification process tends to weed out people who are in it for the money but not actually capable.
I really don’t think your average CS grad can be said to be filtered in the same way.
Do you believe that computer engineers/scientists/developers could have just as much impact on someone's life?
I personally feel like the field is too broad to say yes to that above question but in some domains of our field, it is definitely a yes. We might need a more regimented continuing education requirement similar to the legal field's CLE requirements to remain part of the state bar. As we see more profound effects from software we as an industry will eventually become a target.
Doctors, lawyers, accountants, architects, and engineers can easily destroy or end lives in the course of their work and the certification process tends to weed out people who are in it for the money but not actually capable.
I really don’t think your average CS grad can be said to be filtered in the same way.