"For computer science graduates employed one year after graduation. . . about half of those who took a job outside of IT say they did so because the career prospects were better elsewhere, and roughly a third because they couldn't find a job in IT," the study said.
Twenty years after graduation, only 19% of computer science graduates are still programmers, so the pool of ex-programmers is quite large.
Schreier also offered a little more context around the rather eye-opening statistic that 41percentt of Stanford's computer science graduates go to work for a startup after graduation, while the number is only 13percentt at Harvard.
He majored in finance and computer science.Since graduation, He's worked in both financial services and information technology.
Chicago's public school system last year, for example, became the first major school district to make computer science a graduation requirement for all students.
The Bachelor of Science (BS) degree is for students intending to continue the study of computer science after graduation or who are interested in a rigorous and disciplined approach to the major.
And the 41 states that don't recognize computer science for graduation credit need to update their requirements for the 21st century.
High school students in Grimsby, Ontario, who planned to study engineering and computer science after graduation managed to get a Jaguar S-Type on top of a roof (or rather, the exterior of it built around a wooden frame) in a graduation prank in 2016.
The district also has added a semester of computer science to its graduation requirements.
Bringing these programs to the public was generously supported by Google through the Google Summer of Code program with excellent contributions from our mentee, Aditya Bhatt, an outstanding computer science student approaching graduation in Gandhinagar, India.
