Always wanted to be an engineer.

[JohnLennon]

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@cellardweller

Actually engineering represents only about 5% of all bachelors degrees awarded in the US.</p>

<p>Computer science is another 3.2%. If you include all of science and engineering the total is close to 32%, but the biggest chunk of that are the social and behavioral sciences (psy) at 18%.

I am quoting Thomas Friedman’s The World Is Flat,on p.331 where he quotes Shirley Ann Jackson, the president of RPI.</p>

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@Thomas Friedman

Science and engineering degrees now represent 60 percent of all bachelor’s degrees earned in China, 33 percent in South Korea, 41 percent in Taiwan - and roughly 31 percent in the United States.

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<p>I’m curious where you are getting this information - the chapter is about hard sciences and engineering, explicitly excludes social sciences like economics. I’d be interested if he missed that 18 of that 31% comes from social and behavioral science degrees (as he’s arguing that we, the U.S., are falling behind in terms of engineering and the hard sciences).</p>