Computer Science Enrollment Up 10% Last Fall

dcblogs writes "Computer science enrollments increased 10% last fall, according to the Computer Research Association. At the peak of the dot-com era, the average enrollment in computer science departments was 398, but by 2007 it had declined in half. Enrollments now average 253 students per department. Enrollments have now increased in the last three years. The CRA's annual survey tracks students enrolled at Ph.D.-granting institutions. Compared to the dot-com era, the interest today in computer science may be 'a more reasoned response to a field that seems positioned at the hub of just about every national priority.'"

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Re:Computer Science != IT

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And IT isn't programming at all. IT is the domain of setting up computers and networks and sys admins. Programmers are their own category, and lumping them into "IT" just confuses every conversation since their jobs are so different. Its like calling a mech e who designs engines and a mechanic "automotive technologists". At that point the name is meaningless.