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CS Enrolment Up (a bit, finally)

March 17th, 2009

According to a CRA press release (NYT coverage here), “The number of majors and pre-majors in American computer science programs was up 6.2 percent from 2007″, and “Total Ph.D. production grew to 1,877 for the period July 2007 to June 2008, a 5.7 percent increase over the previous period.”

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  1. s/z
    March 19th, 2009 at 09:58 | #1
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    According to the numbers (U.S.), the CS+CE PhD graduation output has reached about 1900 a year, while CS majors enrolment stands on about 8000 (down from 16000 in 2000). It does not mean that every fifth CS major churns out a PhD (graduate demographics is a bit different), but the ratio is still peculiar… if any other field has it? Physics?

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