This article is using some anecdotes, a few outdated statistics, and poor mathematical analogies. The reason CS majors declined from 2004-2007 is because the st

This article is using some anecdotes, a few outdated statistics, and poor mathematical analogies. The reason CS majors declined from 2004-2007 is because the stigma of outsourcing and failed dot-coms were still in people's minds. I know because I was helping recruit new CS majors at my school during that time, and jobs were the big thing we had to stress because parents were worried about that. According to people in my university, enrollments are back up in the last couple years because the tech market is still healthy. Also, saying that you get 50 MBAs and 18 lawyers for every science/engineering PhD graduate is misleading. An MBA is a 2 year degree consisting of class work, a JD is typically a 3 year degree with some mock trial work and lots of book knowledge, and a PhD is typically a 6-year degree but that requires you to have successfully developed something novel enough to publish in peer-reviewed journals and/or conferences. Most people never finish a PhD, but that has little to do with them not liking science; it's about them not being able to take living in poverty any longer, when there are high-paying jobs in the real world they can jump to at any point. It'd be more interesting to see how many masters in STEM areas are given out relative to MBAs and JDs.