There, she was one of three girls in a class of 50 computer science majors.
In the United States, less than twenty per cent of engineering and computer-science majors are women.
He became a sociable fixture among the science majors and others who lived in clusters of rooms.
The report also found that communication majors had a lower unemployment rate than mechanical engineers and 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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Our United States Congress of lawyers, doctors, diplomats, retired military officers and career politicians -- along with their staffs of intelligent young political science majors and MBAs -- now finds itself poring over "business plans" submitted this week by Ford, GM and Chrysler.
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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Health care, business and the STEM majors (science, technology, engineering and math) are more stable and higher paying for recent college graduates, whereas graduates of the arts, humanities and social sciences face higher unemployment rates and earn lower salaries.
Computer science, accounting, economics and engineering majors were in high demand this year.
Does the school rank any of three disciplines identified as hotbeds for innovation and entrepreneurship--Engineering, Biological and Biomedical Science or Physical Science-- among its most popular majors?
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 kinds of majors where you learn to integrate mathematics and science with the everyday world have a tremendous benefit in terms of earnings potential, " says PayScale.com's Lee.
The technology revolution increased the need for people with knowledge of science, mathematics and engineering, but the number of degrees granted in these hard majors is roughly stagnant.
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