Computer science was once a 'golden ticket' — now it's seeing the biggest enrollment drop of any major in 6 years. What students are choosing instead

Nobel Prize–winning economist Simon Johnson said AI has "substantially wiped out" coding as a reliable source of opportunity.
The Daily Californian

UC Berkeley CS major enrollment on pace to drop by 59% as part of nationwide trend

The number of computer science graduates at UC Berkeley is expected to decrease to 851 for the 2025-26 academic year, down from 1,029 graduates in 2024-25. According to electrical engineering and ...
TechSpot

Computer science enrollment falls across the University of California for the first time in 20 years

Connecting the dots: For the first time in more than two decades years, computer science enrollment across the University of California system has fallen, a drop some educators see as a reflection of ...
Government Technology

CS Majors Decline at UC for First Time Since Early 2000s

(TNS) — For the first time since the dot-com bust in the early 2000s, undergraduate computer science enrollment across the UC system declined in 2025, data show. Only one UC has defied the downward ...
Arizona State Press

Is a computer science degree still relevant? ASU enrollment trends suggest a shift

Enrollment in a Bachelor of Science in computer science and software engineering at ASU has declined by more than 1,000 students since 2024, while other engineering fields, particularly mechanical and ...
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The hottest college major hit a wall. What happened?

A lot of students took the advice to learn to code. Since the Great Recession left technology as a rare spot of optimism in American industry, computer science has been among the fastest-growing ...