Volume 6
Volume 6, Number 44 |
October 27, 2008 |
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Terri L. Lenox
Charles R. Woratschek
Gary A. Davis
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Abstract: Declining enrollments in Computer Science (CS), Information Systems (IS), and Information Technology (IT) programs reported by the media are a real concern to both academicians and employers. Ninety-one percent of the respondents to a brief survey confirmed that enrollment was down in their undergraduate programs. The top six reasons for declining enrollment reported were: outsourcing of CS/IS/IT jobs (67%), the economy in general (59.8%), the dot.com failure (48.8%), the cyclic nature of business (40%), decline in students’ analytic abilities (29.26%) and failure of the institution to actively recruit students (26.8%). Respondents reported various attempts to increase enrollments including increased enrollment efforts to local high schools (46.35%), changing the types of courses offered (37.8%), increasing articulation agreements (36.6%), creating new major(s) with other discipline(s) (29.2%), creating new tracks within the major (29.2%), and increasing recruitment efforts to community colleges/IT schools (29.2%).
Keywords: computer careers, declining enrollment in computer careers, women‘s enrollment in computer careers
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Recommended Citation: Lenox, Woratschek, and Davis (2008). Exploring Declining CS/IS/IT Enrollments. Information Systems Education Journal, 6 (44). http://isedj.org/6/44/. ISSN: 1545-679X. (A preliminary version appears in The Proceedings of ISECON 2005: §3124. ISSN: 1542-7382.)