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Colorado Colleges Overflowing with Huge Wave of Computer Science Students
Professor Tracy Camp teaching an Intro to Computer Science class at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colo.
Credit: Joe Amon / The Denver Post
A massive influx of computer science majors in Colorado and across the United States is overwhelming college and university classrooms as students opt to gain the skills required to fill nearly 500,000 open jobs in cybersecurity, data science, and machine learning.
Freshman James Schreiner says nearly all of his computer science classes at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden are full. Schreiner is part of a wave of an estimated one in four teenagers who began filling their high schools' STEM classes in recent years and who are needed for more than 8.6 million STEM-related jobs in the United States. They are filling college lecture halls and classrooms and fueling growth in technology programs.
The current enrollment surge is forcing colleges and universities to scramble for resources, including instructors, to handle the long-term implications.
"It's wonderful to be popular, but it is putting a strain in just about everything," says Steve Beaty, professor of computer science at Metropolitan State University of Denver.
From The Denver Post
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