Why do so few people major in computer science? (2017)
People go into CS to get jobs in software engineering. This is misguided.<p>CS is really a mathematics major, if you become a good engineer in the process of getting a CS degree it&#x27;s purely accidental on the part of the CS department. It&#x27;s like getting an astrophysics degree in hopes of getting a job in the telescope industry.<p>Universities should really emphasize software engineering as a major rather than CS. CS is great, don&#x27;t get me wrong, you&#x27;ll come out of that program with a galaxy brain for problem solving. In addition, there&#x27;s definitely overlap between the two areas. However, it&#x27;s often totally irrelevant to the real work in the software engineering industry.