Computer Science Programs Make a Comeback in Enrollment

nytimes.com

16 pointspeter1234 comments

"we don’t have Lehman Brothers, Bear Sterns and Citibank to compete with."

So this might not indicate any particular health in computer science in itself, just comparatively.

Or that the current climate in the computer industry is similar to that of ten years ago.

I'd be curious to see a serious breakdown of which schools are seeing increased enrollment, and in which subprograms of CS.

While they don't break down results by school, the complete report has a lot of nice additional data, including a list of all schools surveyed:

http://www.cra.org/info/taulbee/CRATaulbeeReport-StudentEnro...

I think (hope) this is encouraging news, but it's hard to call it a trend this early

This happens whenever there is a crisis. All the people who would normally go in to industry decide to take on grad school as a way to ride off the storm for a few years. As soon as things improve, enrollment levels will go back to "normal".

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