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zandor on Oct 29, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: How CMU increased number of women in CS from 7% to...

My university used a rather simple bait and switch trick with the degree names and changed the name of power engineering to a more friendly energy and environmental engineering.

It actually worked pretty well. There was a significant increase in female students and they didn't change to another degree later.

catch23 on Oct 29, 2009 [–]

Hm, interesting. Maybe computer science needs a new hip name to increase enrollment. We could call it "Autonomous Human Sociology".

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