He wanted to move on to college to study applied math and computer science.

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In 2003 around 16, 500 students applied to UCAS for places on computer science courses.

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Some are building software that can be applied to solving critical problems drug discovery, genomics, computer science and biology.

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Biochemistry (No. 2), computer science (No. 3), applied mathematics (No. 10), mathematics (No. 11), physics (No. 14) and statistics (No. 15) majors are increasingly in demand and well-paid.

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