Computer Science Majors No Longer Hot

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not like the old days

Los Angeles, (UPI) Jul 20, 2004
Computer programming, once the hot major in U.S. colleges and the ticket to a good job, is being shunned on college campuses today.

The Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday enrollment in U.S. computer science programs dropped 23 percent from 2002 to 2003.

College students are fleeing from the major, spooked by stories of unemployed computer programmers who are afraid their jobs will be outsourced to India and Eastern Europe.

However, the U.S. Labor Department projects the number of jobs for computer software engineers will grow 46 percent by 2012.

The Microsoft Corp. in Redwood, Wash., has said it will hire 4,000 new workers during the next 12 months.

Computer science today is poised to do ... amazing things, Microsoft's founder Bill Gates told students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where computer science enrollments dropped 44 percent between 1999 and 2003.

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American Research Facing Growing Challenge

Dallas (UPI) Jun 29, 2004
The president of one of the nation's leading research universities said Tuesday the United States must make a new commitment to basic research if it is to stay ahead of growing global competition in science and engineering.

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