Maybe what you want is for astronomy to be about looking at stars, not building telescopes. Less flippantly: I think everybody knows that "computer science" B

Maybe what you want is for astronomy to be about looking at stars, not building telescopes. Less flippantly: I think everybody knows that "computer science" BA/BS programs are feeders for the industry (almost exclusively in both directions -- it's hard to get an industry job without a BSCS and the overwhelming majority of BSCS go into industry instead of academia, more so than other bachelors programs). There are people who wish there were separate tracks for academic-minded folks and industry-minded folks, but young industry-minded folks generally don't want to go to a "trade school"s, they want to go to college and enjoy college culture before they go into industry.