As the proud dad and chief financial supporter of a son who graduated with a computer engineering degree, in 2017 I offer this very big caveat:
Our son, a Mac user from age 4, wanted to use a Mac and asked specifically of the department staff when applying if he could. They all said yes, and he used Terminal for coding exercises, although he had to export results pages to print in the format the classes required. But he made it work, until his senior year.
Then a new professor was added to staff. As with books in the old days, a prof selects the apps used for his classes. The new prof chose ones that were not at all Mac-compatible. Our son's Macbook Pro was older, and did not have the RAM or storage to use BootCamp or a virtualization program, so the "First Bank of Mom & Dad" bought another computer, a Windows laptop, with which he finished his college days.
My point is that what what a staffer or course counselor tells you today about Mac compatibilty could change tomorrow.
Another pertinent point is that emulation options are still limited on Apple Silicon Macs, making that a less viable option that it was in the days of Intel Macs that could natively run Windows with BootCamp.
Unless money is not an option and you can afford to "change horses in mid-stream" if the requirements change, your safe path is with Windows which, by the way, our son's employer uses exclusively in the engineering spaces.
