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It appears that undergrad CS degrees were a thing by the early 1970s: > 1973 Two-hundred B.S. degrees awarded [1] https://www.cs.purdue.edu/history/table1.htm
by OldHand2018 5y ago
It appears that undergrad CS degrees were a thing by the early 1970s:
> 1973 Two-hundred B.S. degrees awarded
[1] https://www.cs.purdue.edu/history/table1.html https://www.cs.purdue.edu/history/table1.html
PS - Purdue is the oldest CS department in the US, though perhaps another university started an undergrad program earlier?
- fuzzfactor 5y agoAt UF they had been maintaining and operating the duplicate "backup" full IBM mainframe system for the Apollo program at Cape Canaveral, and offering degree programs for some time by then. At Nova they had the big iron too even though there were only 11 students. There's more to the story on that one.
- OldHand2018 5y agoGreat, then a BS in CS existed even earlier?
- fuzzfactor 5y agoYes, they were graduating and going to work for NASA, Wall Street, insurance companies, military & contractors, IRS and mainly things like that. Nobody small could afford a mainframe.
- ritchie1270 5y agoUniversity Of Illinois Urbana-Champaign created the Digital Computer Lab in 1949. It was reorganized into the Department of Computer Science in 1964. In 1965 the College of LAS undergrad degree was established. In 1972 the undergrad degree in College of Engineering was established. I assume within 4 school years of both they issued undergrad degrees. The first graduate degrees were awarded in 1967.