A Decade of Degrees

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22 pointsossama4 comments

I find this interesting. Looking at Computer Science, it dropped off sharply after 2005 and I'm struggling for an explanation. My first idea was that there was an influx of CS majors from the 2001 period who started prior to the bubble, than just stayed to complete their degree.

That y-axis is degrees per year, right? So only 10-30 degrees per year in computer science? That seems pretty small to draw much of a trend from.

CS prof since 2000 here. We saw similar numbers at my school. I imagine the explanation is something like what you suggest.

Note, by the way, that we might be a bit less pessimistic than your "just stayed to complete their degree". The bubble drove a great deal of publicity concerning computer programming; the result was an increased interest. And that interest remained even after the bubble popped.

Sorry, that was a very pessimistic way to phrase it, but you got what I meant. I didn't mean for it to be so pessimistic.

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