Computer Science Enrollments

The percentage of incoming undergraduates among all degree-granting institutions who indicated they would major in computer science and related fields declined by 70 percent between 2000 and 2005, according to the Computing Research Association’s annual
Taulbee Survey of PhD-granting computer science and computer engineering departments in North America.

After six years of declines, the number of new majors in 2006 was nearly half of what it was in 2000 (15,958 versus 7,798). Overall enrollments in computer science and engineering dropped 14 percent between 2004/2005 and 2005/2006, to 34,898. Overall, enrollments have dropped 39 percent from their height in 2001/2002.


Full results are posted each May on the CRA Web site @ www.cra.org/statistic