Nearly 70% of computer science majors had at least one job offer before they graduated from college last year, according to data gathered by the National Association for Colleges and Employers (NACE), which surveyed nearly 10,000 college seniors who were set to earn bachelorâs degrees in the spring of last year.
Believe it or not, being bilingual makes you smarter and greatly improves your cognitive skills. Along with excellent puzzle skills, some of the other benefits from being bilingual include improved memory, improved decision making skills, better multitasking skills and a better focus on tasks. These benefits alone make it worth your while to learn another language or more.
But there is one happy nexus where research is meeting practice: bilingual education. In the last 20 years or so, there's been a virtual explosion of research on bilingualism, says Judith Kroll, a professor at the University of California, Riverside. Again and again, researchers have found, bilingualism is an experience that shapes our brain for a lifetime, in the words of Gigi Luk, an associate professor at Harvard's Graduate School of Education.