23% Fewer Computer Science Majors This Year!
Slashdot reports on a USA Today article saying that there fewer Computer Science Majors. They cite a 23% decline in enrollment in North America. Here’s one comment about the article:
Most engineering schools are reporting declines in enrollment. This is hardly surprising since most engineering curriculums, including CS, are difficult compared to other fields of study. Without the prospect of a good job waiting for them, many college students are veering away from these majors.
Update: Yuhong correctly points out that this is mostly at the undegraduate level. Graduate schools are finding enough students, at least according to Yuhong. I think this is expected: if job prospects are bad, people won’t enter the system but once they’ve entered it, they will stay in it longer if jobs are scarse.
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That news may be too early :), one month before the semester starts, or just talk about under graduates. As I met new grads yesterday, we experienced high enrollment this year in UNB. It is still affected by job market.
Comment by Yuhong YAN — 4/9/2004 @ 15:10