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College Students: Want To Earn More? Take a COBOL Class

Posted by Soulskill on from the lords-of-COBOL-hear-our-prayers dept.

jfruh writes: With a lot of debate over the value of a college education, here's a data point students can use: at one Texas college, students who took an elective COBOL class earned on average $10,000 more a year upon graduation than classmates who hadn't. COBOL, dropped from many curricula years ago as an outdated language, is tenaciously holding on in the industry, as many universities are belatedly starting to realize.

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  1. Re: The UK Cobol Climate Is Very Different by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I like suits. Sounds like you need the trouser seam adjusted in yours, though.

  2. Re:Thanks, but no thanks. by Thanshin · · Score: 3, Funny

    I took COBOL, early 2000s. Best on my "promotion". Years later I still see it as "what I'll do to avoid homelessness and for no other reason".