When I was at MIT recently the physical science departments noted an exodus to Course 6/CS during covid due to limits on lab work. It’s interesting how such events tend to have impacts for generations.<p>If you are a new student today, is the smart thing to go into engineering due to the huge population entering programming? Or will CS continue to be lucrative with a 2-4x rate of new graduates.
Since this downward trend started around 2010, when I was in middle school and it seemed people where first getting on the internet en masse, I wonder if this trend is due to higher internet exposure in kids bringing widespread awareness to the financial reality of a humanities degree. It’s common to hear humanities degrees being derided on social media sites, but social media is also the only place I really hear these attitudes. I think this trend could be due to being more informed, as well as social pressure.
Berkeley EECS alum: is it true that CS61A (the intro course) is now moved to Haas Pavilion (the basketball court) and there are 45 TAs? I remember the professor at the time I was there said that CS61A was only impacted during the dot-com bubble, and it seems like it's back again.
I wonder if we'll see another bust period like the two preceding ones due to the recent "macroeconomic headwinds" and resultant layoffs at large tech cos.