Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bear.cis.ohio-state.edu!doug From: doug@bear.cis.ohio-state.edu (Doug Kerr) Newsgroups: comp.edu Subject: Re: CS Enrollment Trends Message-ID: <42502@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 10 Apr 89 12:37:22 GMT References: <1229@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> <3982@bgsuvax.UUCP> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: Doug Kerr Distribution: usa Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 27 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