CS enrollment at elite colleges down up to 43% since ChatGPT, dropping faster post Claude Code
zack_overflow · x · 2026-11-11
- Chart of CS major changes since fall 2023: Stanford -26% (865→639), Harvard & Yale -28% (678→487, 253→182), MIT & Princeton -32%, Dartmouth -43% (260→148).
- The timeline marks ChatGPT (Nov 2022), Sonnet 3.5 (Jun 2024), and Claude Code (Feb 2025); the decline steepens sharply after Claude Code's release.
- Data comes from each school's registrar or IR office, with slightly differing counting methods.
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