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This might be a concerning trend if you are a working programmer. Currently labor is tight, but it seems in a few years the schools will be cranking out huge nu
by cmbaus 14y ago
This might be a concerning trend if you are a working programmer. Currently labor is tight, but it seems in a few years the schools will be cranking out huge numbers of CS majors. If past cycles are an indication, this might coincide with decreased demand. Look what has happened in the legal field. There is a glut of lawyers currently on the market.
- jacques_chester 14y agoLaw has transformed into the liberal arts degree of the current age. Almost nobody actually goes on to law; they go on to management or other analysis/talk careers. Edit: It occurs to me that I've caused downvotable confusion because law degrees in the USA are quite different from law degrees in Australia (where I studied law). In the USA law is a postgraduate degree. Here it is an undergraduate degree. Australian citizens receive very generous loans and until recently, places for each degree at any given university were fixed by Commonwealth quotas. Students with high year 12 scores and no idea of what to do next studied law or medicine because, in a quota placement scheme, those courses had the highest entry scores. Basically a status thing. You're "smart"? Do law! (Which is how I wound up doing it). Hence my remark that it's replaced the Arts degree as something that can be used to step into a higher entry rung in a large company or government department.
- cmbaus 14y agoThat might be becoming the case as jobs in the field dry up, but I know plenty of lawyers who went to law school to become lawyers. It is hard to justify the cost of a law degree for general education.
- jacques_chester 14y agoSee my edit. Australians and Americans have quite different causes leading to attendance at law school.