CRA Bulletin

Results from CRA’s Taulbee Survey of Ph.D.-granting computer science departments show a continued fall in undergraduate enrollments and degrees granted.

From the article on the results (Continued Drop in CS Bachelor’s Degree Production and Enrollments as the Number of New Majors Stabilizes):

After six years of declines, the number of new CS majors in fall 2006 was half of what it was in fall 2000 (15,958 versus 7,798). Nevertheless, this was only a slight decline from the 7,952 new majors reported in fall 2005, and may indicate that the numbers are stabilizing.

Enrollments dropped 14 percent between 2004/2005 and 2005/2006, to 34,898. Overall, enrollments dropped 39 percent from their height in 2001/2002, while the median number of students enrolled in each department fell 44 percent since 2000/2001.

The total number of bachelor’s degrees granted by PhD-granting CS departments fell 28 percent between 2003/2004 and 2005/2006, to 10,206.

Full results from the Taulbee Survey will be available in May.