<p>moshot, that link didn’t work for me, but I’m not sure how current or relevant it is anyway. Here’s an excerpt from the Chairman of Stanford’s CS department’s Summer 2010 newsletter:</p>
<p>"Skyrocketing CS Majors</p>
<p>No, I don’t mean that our CS majors are literally taking off in rockets, although I wouldn’t be surprised—the variety of things these students are up to never ceases to amaze me. (In fact some of them have been involved in a course in the Aeronautics and Astronautics department in spacecraft design.) I’m referring to the skyrocketing number of CS majors. In 2009-10 we saw an increase of about 30% in the number of students declaring CS as their major, compounding a 41% growth the preceding year. If you do the arithmetic, that’s an 83% increase over a two-year period. At this time, roughly 9% of Stanford undergraduates are declaring computer science as their major! Stanford has a policy of not limiting the number of students in any major, so who knows what next year will bring. Stay tuned." (excerpted from [2010</a> Department Newsletter | Stanford Computer Science](<a href=“http://www-cs.stanford.edu/newsletter/2010]2010”>http://www-cs.stanford.edu/newsletter/2010))</p>
<p>Facts. Aren’t they great?</p>