CS Enrollment in US and UK Has Sharply Reversed After Years of Growth
gleech · x · 2026-09-03
Per FT's John Burn-Murdoch, the long-running growth in computer science enrollment in the US and UK has sharply reversed over the past two years. The shift is widely read as evidence that AI's impact on programming careers is reshaping students' choices — a key signal for AI's effects on higher education and the job market.
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