High-school grads hoping to geek out on computer science courses at college will find their classrooms a little more crowded in coming years. According to the Computing Research Association, the number of new students seeking degrees in the field has seen a huge jump recently.
The CRA polled 192 universities for its annual Taulbee Survey (PDF) during the fall of 2008, and found that enrollment for computer science majors increased 8.1 percent from 2007 to 2008. That’s the biggest increase in six years, when the dot com bust last sent numbers skyward.
