College enrollment in computer science, engineering on the rise - USATODAY.com: SAN FRANCISCO — Relief may be finally on the way for engineering-starved employers.
For the first time since the dot-com bust, there is a jump in the number of undergraduate computer-science majors. New enrollment in North American computer science and engineering programs rose 8% during the 2007-08 school year from the year before, according to a report released Tuesday by the Computing Research Association, a trade group for about 200 university computing departments. It is the first increase since 2002.
'The perception that IT jobs are hard to come by is over, and the field is now considered an interesting place to be,' says Peter Harsha, director of government affairs for CRA, which also represents government research labs and research labs for tech companies such as Google, Microsoft and IBM.
