More female students were enrolled in information systems and information technology programs than in computer engineering
Software engineering degree programs are growing steadily while the more Black and Hispanic students are enrolling in some areas of computer science, an annual higher ed study has found.
African Americans and Hispanics are actually over-represented—based on their percentage of the U.S. population—in some computing disciplines, according to the Association for Computing Machinery’s eighth annual Study of Non-Doctoral Granting Departments in Computing.
However, more African Americans and Hispanic students were enrolled in bachelor’s degree programs than in graduate programs.
The highest numbers of female students were enrolled in information systems and information technology programs, where they represented about 24% and 21% of degree earners, respectively.