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From: maner@bgsuvax.UUCP (Walter Maner)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: CS Enrollment Trends
Message-ID: <3982@bgsuvax.UUCP>
Date: 8 Apr 89 01:31:26 GMT
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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

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