US computer-science enrolment just fell for the first time in 20 years

Computer science was the safe bet. For twenty years, enrolment in the US only went up. In the 2025-26 academic year, it went down. The reversal The finding comes from Jacob Light, an economist at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. Business Insider reported his research. His dataset is vast: more than 50 million course sections since 1996, […] This story continues at The Next Web

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US computer-science enrolment just fell for the first time in 20 years

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