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Young is relative... Computer science degrees have been available in colleges for 20+ years

• Jtsummers 6y ago
  20+ is technically correct. NC State was celebrating 40 years of CS in 2006 or so and they weren't the first. CS degrees have been around since the 1960s, so 50+ years at this point of CS as a separate degree program in the US. Apparently Cambridge offered their first CS degree in 1953.
  • chrisco255 6y ago
    Yes, but they took quite some time to spread to the whole country and to every major university. That didn't really start until the 70s and 80s (in line with when NC State got established).
  • uncletaco 6y ago
    My graduate school's CS department is older than the university it now belongs to.
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• arethuza 6y ago
  Manchester University has had a CS department and degree since 1965: https://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/about/history-and-heritage/ https://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/about/history-and-heritage/
• astura 6y ago
  Woah there, I was studying computer science in college 20 years ago and it wasn't even close to a new degree program then.
  • zikzak 6y ago
    Too be fair, when I say 20 years ago I'm thinking "the 80s", then I remember that's wrong and I'm old.
• cmollis 6y ago
  I switched my major from 'business' (yawn) to comp sci 35 years ago (1986).. at my school, it was previously a 'concentration' in the Math department, which meant you got a BS in Math, concentration in Computer Science. It wasn't a full Bachelors of Science degree until about two years before I got there.
• chrisweekly 6y ago
  My father (RIP) got his Masters degree in CS-EE from MIT in 1972, almost 50 years ago.
• NotSammyHagar 6y ago
  I think you are kidding. Even my southern noname university had cs degrees 40 years ago. We had 3, one that was computer engineering, one in arts & sciences, one in the biz college