> This year, enrollment grew by only 0.2 percent nationally, and at many programs, it appears to already be in decline, according to interviews with professors and department chairs.
Curious what is making up the slack, or if people are just choosing not to go to college.
techpineapple · 4h ago
“ All of which makes the latest batch of numbers so startling. This year, enrollment grew by only 0.2 percent nationally, and at many programs, it appears to already be in decline, according to interviews with professors and department chairs. At Stanford, widely considered one of the country’s top programs, the number of comp-sci majors has stalled after years of blistering growth. Szymon Rusinkiewicz, the chair of Princeton’s computer-science department, told me that, if current trends hold, the cohort of graduating comp-sci majors at Princeton is set to be 25 percent smaller in two years than it is today. The number of Duke students enrolled in introductory computer-science courses has dropped about 20 percent over the past year.”
I don’t understand what this means exactly, Stanford must have chosen not to enroll so many comp sci majors right? Like I can’t imagine not enough people applied. Wouldn’t you see trail offs maybe start at small schools, not leading schools?
fasthands9 · 4h ago
It is interesting. My two theories would be a) people at top schools follow these meta-discussions more and are therefore are more likely to be ahead of trend b) someone who could do comp-sci at Stanford could easily become something like a doctor, but at small schools there's not an obvious second option that's also high earning.
Curious what is making up the slack, or if people are just choosing not to go to college.
I don’t understand what this means exactly, Stanford must have chosen not to enroll so many comp sci majors right? Like I can’t imagine not enough people applied. Wouldn’t you see trail offs maybe start at small schools, not leading schools?