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Similar story post Dotcom crash at my alma mater. There were either 21 or 26 incoming undergrads declared as CS majors. The dean exclaimed that it was great to have them and that they were "the true believers".

Fast forward to now, and there's about 250 incoming CS undergrads without much student body expansion.

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I studied Physics but I think if I could do it all again CS would make more sense (in my job I do some CS stuff anyway and zero physics..)

At least in Europe, even Engineering fields (let alone sciences and god forbid, the arts/humanities..) have pretty dismal job prospects compared to CS.

It seems like everyone and their grandmother wants to "learn to code" these days and it really doesn't seem like a sustainable situation.

That said, it's quite a hard field to actually learn enough to be a useful, paid professional so at the moment I'd still say it is the best degree choice.

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