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2 Historical Degree Production in Computing
2 Historical Degree Production in Computing
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CIS -- Includes the entire 11.x series of IPEDS Classification of Instruc tional Programs (CIPs) , referred to within IPEDS alternately as "computer science" and "computer and information science and support services." This broad category includes core computer science, information science/ studies, information technology, and related fields, some of which are more vocational than traditional computer science programs.
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.2 The plots for "All Institutions" include bachelor's degrees at all public, private not-for-profit, and private for-profit institutions; plots for "Notfor-Profits" exclude the bachelor's degrees conferred by for-profit institutions. The significant growth in the 50 years since the emergence of computer science as a unique academic discipline is marked by two striking peaks, with subsequent valleys resetting at a higher absolute level than the presurge level.
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bachelor's degree production, and suggests that little of the recent surge is due to increased participation among foreign students.3 The fraction of CIS bachelor's degrees awarded to temporary residents in 2015 remained below past peak levels. 3 Note that there is some uncertainty in these data given that a nontrivial fraction (around 10 percent in recent years)
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. SOURCE: Data from IPEDS completions survey accessed via the WebCASPAR online database.
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than during the dot-com era peak in 2003, representing an increase of 87 percent since the post-dot-com FIGURE 2.3 Bachelor's degree production from 1987 to 2015 in CIS and CE at public, private, and for-profit institutions reporting to IPEDS. SOURCE: Data from IPEDS completions survey accessed online via the WebCASPAR online database.
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C arnegie Classification4 and by for-profit status.5 Degree production trends by insti tution type are illustrated in Figure 2.5 for the following categories of institution: • Research includes institutions classified as not-for-profit doctoral-degree granting institutions with "very high" or "high" research activity, both public and private. • Doctoral includes all other not-for-profit doctoral degree granting institu tions, both public and private.
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SOURCE: Data from IPEDS completions survey accessed via the WebCASPAR online database. See Appendix F for details.
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growth is having the largest impact on research institutions (97 percent increase) , followed by master's institutions (69 percent increase)
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Some caution should be exercised when using these data to make assumptions about the nature of any particular CIS program, as program size does not follow a normal distribution. Overall, the top 10 percent of CIS degree producers are responsible for more than 50 percent of the degrees, and the smallest 50 percent of the institutions produce less than 10 percent.
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A range of influences, including specific institutional actions and other influences, may apply over the course of a student's academic career, and may affect the character and culture of the program and institution. In the rest of this report dimensions of the current CS enrollment surge are explored, including potential impacts of related institutional actions, which are discussed in more depth in Chapter 6.
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Data are for all institutions that reported to IPEDS. SOURCE: Data from IPEDS completions survey accessed via the WebCASPAR online database.
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Many universities and colleges have instituted enrollments controls, including restricting the number of students allowed to de clare a major and limiting access to computer science courses. Computer science faced similar challenges in the early 1980s, when students were attracted to CS by the development of widely available personal computers, and again in the late 1990s.
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Purdue University Computer Science Technical Reports, Report Number 90-1003; Zelkowitz, M.V.
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Purdue University Computer Science Technical Reports Report Number 90-1003. b Zelkowitz, M.V.
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