Friday, July 4, 2014

Is There a Crisis in Computer-Science Education? - Jonah Newman, Chronicle of Higher Ed

Tasneem Raja, the interactive editor at Mother Jones, last week released a report that included one statistic in particular caught our eye: The United States graduated proportionally fewer computer-science majors in 2011-12 than in 1985-86. It’s true that the percentage of bachelor’s degrees awarded in computer science in 1985-86 (4.3 percent of the total) was significantly higher than the percentage in 2011-12 (2.6 percent). [see the full article below for more data and perspectives] http://chronicle.com/blogs/data/2014/06/23/is-there-a-crisis-in-computer-science-education/