The report also found that communication majors had a lower unemployment rate than mechanical engineers and computer science majors.
There, she was one of three girls in a class of 50 computer science majors.
The increase follows a national trend: Computer science majors increased 7.6% across the country from 2009 to 2010, the most recent available data, according to the Computing Research Association.
How about an explanation for us non-computer science majors?
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In the United States, less than twenty per cent of engineering and computer-science majors are women.
In the Millennial Branding survey, employers reported engineering and computer information systems majors as their top recruits.
Computer science and engineering majors both saw a nearly 4% increase in starting salaries in the past year, underscoring the demand for their skill-sets.
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Computer science, accounting, economics and engineering majors were in high demand this year.
Rahim Kanani: In search of discovering my own passions, I switched majors twice in college: from computer science to business, and from business to philosophy.
Today Ashesi, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year, offers degrees in business, information systems and computer science, with plans to offer engineering and economics majors in the near future.
The four highest paid majors for people with less than five years' experience were all engineering-based, with computer engineering leading the way.
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