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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!hri.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-picayune.mit.edu!athena.mit.edu!erspert
  2. From: erspert@athena.mit.edu (Ellen R. Spertus)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.edu
  4. Subject: Re: how many usa comp sci grads per year?
  5. Message-ID: <1992Sep4.000142.22664@athena.mit.edu>
  6. Date: 4 Sep 92 00:01:42 GMT
  7. References: <1992Aug24.201247.12857@rosevax.rosemount.com>
  8. Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system)
  9. Distribution: usa
  10. Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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  13.  
  14. In article <1992Aug24.201247.12857@rosevax.rosemount.com> craig@bunsen.rosemount.com (Craig Taylor) writes:
  15. >Approximately how many people graduate from US 4 year
  16. >schools with computer science degrees each year?  I guess
  17. >this includes other programs with similar names.
  18.  
  19. In 1986 (the most recent year for which I have statistics handy),
  20. 42,195 people received CS bachelor degrees in the United States.  The
  21. number has gone up every year since 1976 (the first listed in the
  22. table), when 5,664 degrees were awarded.  Presumably, this includes
  23. related majors.
  24.  
  25. This information is from the 1990 NSF report, _Women and Minorities in
  26. Science and Engineering_.  (Answers to questions you didn't ask are
  27. 36% went to women, and the average salary of someone going into
  28. industry with a BSCS was $28000.)
  29.  
  30. If you multiply the number of graduates by the average salary, you get
  31. a whopping $1,181,460,000.
  32.  
  33.                     Ellen Spertus
  34.