The great computer science exodus (and where students are going instead)

Something strange happened at University of California campuses this fall. For the first time since the dot-com crash, computer science enrollment dropped. System-wide, it fell6% this yearafter declining 3% in 2024, according to reporting this past week by the San Francisco Chronicle. Even as overall college enrollmentclimbed 2% nationally— according to January data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center — students are bailing on traditional CS degrees.

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