Maybe because a lot of people don't think they need a computer science degree? I mean, look at the tech scene. The general 'message' running throughout is of pe

Maybe because a lot of people don't think they need a computer science degree? I mean, look at the tech scene. The general 'message' running throughout is of people who dropped out of school to focus on their startup or picked themselves up by the bootstraps to learn to code to escape a more mundane career. There's a general assumption (rightly or wrongly) that programming and general tech skills are self taught, and that may lead to people thinking the idea of a degree for the 'theory' side is useless. Is this picture right? Eh, maybe, maybe not. But I'd say it's definitely how the tech world is perceived, leading to a lots of kids thinking other degrees are more useful (in case they decide to switch to a different career later in life). This may also explain why computer science enrollment is much higher in countries like India too. There's still a heavy focus on education in the culture there, and people from the region might see a computer science degree as being as necessary for a tech worker as a law degree is for a lawyer.