news@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (news) (04/08/89)
I was in a meeting last week and it was asserted that CS enrollment, both
BS and CS, was down all over. Is this so? Any idea why? Would someone
please confirm or deny this and cite a source by e-mail? Many thanks.
From: martins@fiddler.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Martin Sandman)
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-- Martinmaner@bgsuvax.UUCP (Walter Maner) (04/08/89)
From article <1229@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM>, by news@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (news): > I was in a meeting last week and it was asserted that CS enrollment, both > BS and CS, was down all over. Is this so? Any idea why? Would someone > please confirm or deny this and cite a source by e-mail? Many thanks. > From: martins@fiddler.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Martin Sandman) > Path: fiddler!martins > See the 11/27/87 issue of __The Wall Street Journal__ for an article by Paul Duke entitled "Jobs Go Unfilled as Fewer Students Show Interest in Computer Science." The focus of the article is on freshman career preferences. In 1982, 8.8% aspired to careers as computer programmers or computer analysts; in 1986, the number fell to 3.5%. In 1986, 4.5% wanted to major in computer science; in 1986, the number fell to 1.9%. These facts don't do justice to the article, which tries to explain the downturn. WALT -- CSNet : maner@research1.bgsu.edu | 419/372-8719 InterNet: maner@research1.bgsu.edu (129.1.1.2) | BGSU CS Dept UUCP : ... !osu-cis!bgsuvax!maner | Bowling Green, OH 43403 BITNet : MANER@BGSUOPIE
doug@bear.cis.ohio-state.edu (Doug Kerr) (04/10/89)
In article <3982@bgsuvax.UUCP> maner@bgsuvax.UUCP (Walter Maner) writes: >From article <1229@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM>, by news@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (news): >> I was in a meeting last week and it was asserted that CS enrollment, both >> BS and CS, was down all over. >See the 11/27/87 issue of __The Wall Street Journal__ for an article by >Paul Duke entitled "Jobs Go Unfilled as Fewer Students Show Interest in >Computer Science." The focus of the article is on freshman career >preferences. In 1982, 8.8% aspired to careers as computer programmers or >computer analysts; in 1986, the number fell to 3.5%. Another note, 8.8% was of the same order of magnitude as wanted to major in all of Engineering, or in Business. It was more than double the percentage of just a few years earlier. Thus I'd say the current demand is much more reasonable than the demand of 5 years ago. We might actually be able to teach all the qualified students who want into computer science now. :-) We sure couldn't a couple of years ago. Here at Ohio State, at least, the demand at the graduate level is actually up, however. -=- Douglas S. Kerr, Department of Computer and Information Science The Ohio State University; 2036 Neil Ave. Columbus OH USA 43210-1277 doug@cis.ohio-state.edu 614/292-1519 ...!{pyramid,killer}!osu-cis!cis.ohio-state.edu!doug