Computer Science Programs Make a Comeback in Enrollment

[peter123]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/science/17comp.html

[10ren]

"we don’t have Lehman Brothers, Bear Sterns and Citibank to compete with."

So this might not indicate any particular health in computer science in itself, just comparatively.

[mgreenbe → 10ren]

Or that the current climate in the computer industry is similar to that of ten years ago.

I'd be curious to see a serious breakdown of which schools are seeing increased enrollment, and in which subprograms of CS.

[dandelany → mgreenbe]

While they don't break down results by school, the complete report has a lot of nice additional data, including a list of all schools surveyed:

http://www.cra.org/info/taulbee/CRATaulbeeReport-StudentEnro...

I think (hope) this is encouraging news, but it's hard to call it a trend this early

[Anon84]

This happens whenever there is a crisis. All the people who would normally go in to industry decide to take on grad school as a way to ride off the storm for a few years. As soon as things improve, enrollment levels will go back to "normal".